Conceptual 2nd place winner

The project began as a playful idea of the ocean being a giant sea of blue paint rather than water. The idea of a blue sea is so engraved into our minds, even though in most cases, water is not actually blue. In all three pieces, a hand becomes covered in paint by touching a landscape of that color. In its entirety, the project speaks about our intense connection between common landscapes and their assigned colors. Possibly something that was instilled in us during our elementary days. The project also addresses my role as an artist, and what color I will choose for my landscapes, even though my tool of choice is a camera (a tad bit ironic). A painter is given the task to paint a tree, but that painter must choose to use green paint. After all if it weren't for the human eye the world as we know it would be in black and white.

EDUCATION:
Shintaro Akatsu School of Design, BFA, Graphic Design, Bridgeport Connecticut.

AWARDS:
2012 — CADC, excellence award
2012 — CADC, Silver Award
2012 — CADC, The Monica Wolff & Randall Smith Scholarship
2013 — CADC, The Monica Wolff & Randall Smith Scholarship
2013 — EAA, Focus, Best photography in show
2013 — CADC, Silver Award
2013 — CADC, Gold Award
2014 — IPA (International Photography Awards) Third place, non professional landscape

EXHIBITIONS:
2012 — CAFA, 101st Annual Juried Show.
2012 — Art Takes Times Square billboard premiere.
2012 — EAA, "Darkness Exposed"
2013 — CAFA, 102nd Annual Juried Show.
2013 — SAA, Images.
2013 — EAA, "Focus"
2013 — Essex Yacht Club Exhibition
2014 — DdA Factory, Italy, group show
2014 — A+D Architecture and Design Museum, Los Angeles, "Celebrate Groundswell 4th annual"
2014 — NEST, "Images of a Wandering Mind"
2014 — London,"Parallax Art Fair"

PUBLICATIONS:
2012 — Get Inspired! E-Mag, Issue 2
2013 — The Art Takes Times Square book
2014 — "Making a Splash", Victionary, Hong Kong
2014 — The Highlike Book