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Untitled, Nonlinear Dubuque, 06-02-2017ZZBYA (Single)
DESCRIPTION
I shot dozens of photos of the parking lot of Resurrection Elementary School in Dubuque, Iowa. I attended the school in 1961 and 1962. The building and lot are largely unchanged from that time. I previously created the series Dubuque Revisited and Fractical Dubuque. On this trip in 2017 I created Nonlinear Dubuque. The parking lot consisted of the usual asphalt and yellow lines plus variously aged and repaired cracks. I was drawn to the textures of these surfaces. All of my completed images from the parking lot consisted of overlaying two or more photographs and playing with layers and other Photoshop tools. For this image I took one of my final images and reproduced it five times to create a five armed shape. I am drawn to shooting in Dubuque because of its age (founded in 1833) and my knowledge of it. In many ways Nonlinear Dubuque is the polar opposite of Dubuque Revisited, which I shot from 1983 to 2009.
AUTHOR
In 1978 I purchased a camera. In the early 80s my work was published, exhibited and purchased for the collection of the Standard Oil Company. My first solo show debuted in 1985.
I received a BA in Film from Columbia College in 1980.
My videos were exhibited at major festivals from 2003 to 2007. One video was nominated for the Golden Gate Award at the 47th San Francisco Int’l Film Festival.
2019: Gold Winner, 2018 Moscow International Foto Awards, Silver Winner Tokyo International Foto Awards for series "Fabric on the Dock", Seven nominations at the 5th Annual Fine Art Photography Awards, Finalist in Circle Foundation for the Arts’ Artist of the Year Competition, Exhibited at Transformations - 2019, Pennsylvania Center for Photography and In Motion exhibit at Photography Center of Cape Cod, and published in two hardcover art books: Tusis, Manipulated Images, a Dek Unu book, and the 7th International Photography Annual Publication at Manifest Gallery.
2017-2018: Exhibited twice in Rome, Italy, once in Belgrade, Serbia, and had ten works from the series Obscure Reveal exhibited at a Florida museum.
I received a BA in Film from Columbia College in 1980.
My videos were exhibited at major festivals from 2003 to 2007. One video was nominated for the Golden Gate Award at the 47th San Francisco Int’l Film Festival.
2019: Gold Winner, 2018 Moscow International Foto Awards, Silver Winner Tokyo International Foto Awards for series "Fabric on the Dock", Seven nominations at the 5th Annual Fine Art Photography Awards, Finalist in Circle Foundation for the Arts’ Artist of the Year Competition, Exhibited at Transformations - 2019, Pennsylvania Center for Photography and In Motion exhibit at Photography Center of Cape Cod, and published in two hardcover art books: Tusis, Manipulated Images, a Dek Unu book, and the 7th International Photography Annual Publication at Manifest Gallery.
2017-2018: Exhibited twice in Rome, Italy, once in Belgrade, Serbia, and had ten works from the series Obscure Reveal exhibited at a Florida museum.
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