Agriculture Series (Ongoing)
The work ventures to develop a different visual language for capturing Agriculture: its fields, structures, and way of life. Characterized by the reduction of compositions to simple shapes and underlying geometrical structures, with clear outlines, minimal detail, unexpected viewpoints and framing, and an emphasis on the abstract form of the subject, the work is suggestive of the American modernism Precisionism movement. The Precisionist style also showed the influence of work by American photographers, such as Paul Strand.
American, born 1952, Torrance, CA. Lives and works, Petaluma, CA. Mostly self-taught. Working only with traditional transparency film or print film in 35mm and 645 formats. The finished photograph is the unmanipulated film image. Regularly exhibits work throughout the US and abroad. Reviewers and jurors have noted the work as suggestive of Hiroshi Sugimoto and color field painting.
Awards The 12th Pollux Awards, international juried group exhibition, juried by Philip Brookman, Consulting Curator of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. Series winner of the Landscape and Seascape category: Agriculture Series - Agricultural Fields. 2018.
International Color Awards, 11th Annual International competition, international juried group exhibition, various jurors, Nominee. 2018.
Gallery 110, mixed media juried group exhibition, juried by Melissa Feldman, independent curator and faculty at Seattle’s Cornish College of the Arts, the California College of Art, the San Francisco Art Institute and Goldsmith’s College in London, Seattle, WA. Juror award: Field #12. 2016.
