Honorable Mention / 2024 / Fine Art / Architecture
The Geometry of Light and Reflection
A study of a part of San Francisco Bay's industrial waterfront revitalized and reformed by new office buildings, a sports arena, and public installations of shapes and mirrors. It is a study of form as well as light, reflection, and surrealist abstracts in public space.
I'm an American photographic artist currently living in San Francisco. After a somewhat solitary and local upbringing, I have traveled a lot and I use photography both as a literal chronicle of a sense of place and as a metaphor for an expanded awareness of greater possibility. I work in traditional genres of landscape, still life, street, portrait, and abstracts, but regardless of literal subject matter, the images are expressions of curiosity about the precariousness of life's journey, the quest for a way forward, and my own deeply-sewn desire for order amidst uncertainty.
Awards Gallery Exhibitions
Midwest Center for Photography Juried Exhibition, 2024, MWCP Gallery, Wichita, KS (April 2024)
Monochrome 2022, PH21 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary (May 2022)
The Magic of Light, PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, VT, selected by juror Ann Jastrab, for Online Exhibition (March 2022).
Black and White 2022, Black Box Gallery, Portland, OR (February 2022)
INPrint Group Show, Photo Methode Gallery, Austin TX (2017)
Grotteschi | Exploring Hieronymus Bosch, Carmel Visual Arts Center (2015)
Awards
2024 International Color Awards, 1 Nomination in Architecture, 2 Nominations in Fine Art and 1 Nomination in Still Life Categories
2023 Black & White Spider Awards, 3 Nominee Awards in Nature, Still Life, and People Categories2022 International Color Awards, 1 Nominee Award in Nature category
2022 Black & White Spider Awards, 1 Nominee Award in Photojournalism Category
2021 International Color Awards, 2 Nominations, one each in Nature and Architecture categories
2021 Black & White Spider Awards, 3 Nominee Awards, one each in Fine Art, Architectural and Aerial Categories
2021 PX3 Prix de la Photographie PX3, 2 Honorable Mentions in Press/Travel/Tourism, Professional Category
2019 International Color Awards, Nomination, Nude, Disruptive I
2018 Black & White Spider Awards, 1st Place Architectural Category
2018 International Color Awards, 3rd Place Honor of Distinction, Nude, and 2 Nominations, in Nature and Abstract Categories
2017 Black & White Spider Awards Honorable Mention Nude, and Nominee Abstract Categories
2016 Black & White Spider Awards Honorable Mention Nude, and Nominee in Nude, Nature and Architectural Categories
2016 PX3 Prix de la Photographie Paris Honorable Mention in Fine Art Nude Category
2016 International Photography Awards, Los Angeles, CA, Honorable Mentions in Nature (Sunset), Fine Art (Landscape) and Fine Art (Other) categories