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"A Stranger in a Strange Land" (Series)
DESCRIPTION
I am a photographic artist specializing in abstract imagery that suggests a story. The story is one that the viewer creates in response to the painterly images that spark the imagination. Having always been fascinated with life’s mysteries that often lie outside of our culture’s established norms, I find that abstraction departs from the prosaic to challenge our perceptions of our everyday world. My passion is to create images that to me are compelling, both emotionally and visually, endeavoring to provide a portal for transmuting the temporal to the empyreal. As an explorer in a landscape barren of familiarity I’m inspired to create images that are dramatically vibrant and mysterious invoking the imagination to explore my own mindful metaphors. The viewer is invited to as well. These images initially are found captures of paint; cracked, flaked or otherwise deteriorating on rusting metal. The textures are inherent and the colors and tonality are the result of my initial and subsequent response to the subject matter.
AUTHOR
Walter Jakubowski is a photographic artist specializing in abstract imagery that suggests a story. The story is one that the viewer creates in response to the painterly images that spark the imagination. "The compositions intimate an ambience that is emotionally vibrant, mysterious and full of drama, blurring the distinction between photography and compositional poetic design. They are purely abstract, presenting rhythms of color, texture and ambiguous forms".
Having retired as an Industrial Design Surface Sculptor I have been able to focus on my passion, Photographic Art. I have always been inspired by the landscape and my visual style has evolved with expressions of the abstract culminating in my present work today.
1st Place - "Abstract Expressions 2023" - International Juried Exhibiton- Redbluff Gallery, CA
"9th Annual Colorful Abstractions" - Fusion Art, Albuquerque, NM
3rd Place "Colors Unleashed" - International Juried Exhibition - Blue Koi Gallery
2nd Place - Abstract Expressions 2022 - Redbluff Gallery, CA
Gold Medal Winner - Museo International Photography Awards - 2021
“Best in Show” – “Autumn 2020” – International Juried Show, Camelback Gallery
Accepted into 13 National, International Juried shows since January, 2023
Having retired as an Industrial Design Surface Sculptor I have been able to focus on my passion, Photographic Art. I have always been inspired by the landscape and my visual style has evolved with expressions of the abstract culminating in my present work today.
1st Place - "Abstract Expressions 2023" - International Juried Exhibiton- Redbluff Gallery, CA
"9th Annual Colorful Abstractions" - Fusion Art, Albuquerque, NM
3rd Place "Colors Unleashed" - International Juried Exhibition - Blue Koi Gallery
2nd Place - Abstract Expressions 2022 - Redbluff Gallery, CA
Gold Medal Winner - Museo International Photography Awards - 2021
“Best in Show” – “Autumn 2020” – International Juried Show, Camelback Gallery
Accepted into 13 National, International Juried shows since January, 2023
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