“My work is reminiscent of when I was a kid growing up in Lambertville, NJ. I loved being outside in nature. I would lie in the grass over at Lewis’ Island, close my eyes and look into the sun. Then open them to see a world of bright colors, exaggerated textures, shapes and forms. The river would glisten and the water would dance. It created an abstract world of color and light. It was wonderful and uplifting”.
“Photography has always been built into my way of seeing things. I am always taking that picture with my mind’s eye. Recording that split second in time when everything seems to all fall into place and dissolve into an altered state of reality.
My current work is an enhancement of that goal, and a concentrated commitment to narrow the focus by intensifying color and textures, accentuating contrast and saturation, and printing them on a large scale to immerse the viewer into the scene. Humbling them to nature’s beauty and attempting to create a greater bond.
Over the years, I have formed a mutual respect with my camera and the natural world. My goal is for it to act as the quintessential eye, helping to capture the world’s “life force” beyond what is obviously seen - an alter environment. Merging the abstract and natural worlds. Seeing the world through an erudite and trained eye.
I developed a large body of work which I had thought about for many years, as an Artist-in-Residence at Lafayette College’s Media Lab, in Easton, PA, with Lew Minter, from May 2007- Dec. 2010. It set into motion being able to print my images on a very large scale on artist’s paper and canvas, which I continue with today”.
EXHIBITIONS
25 Photographs
The Farmhouse Restaurant
Emmaus, PA
Vernissage: Preview of an Art Exhibition
December 12, 2011
Camera USA: National Photography Competition
The von Liebig Art Center
Naples, FL
May 14 - August 26, 2011
Art of the Flower
All Media Juried Competition
The Philadelphia Sketch Club
Philadelphia, PA
March 4 - 19, 2011
Reception: March 6
Winnie & Jim Nature Studies
Bethlehem Fine Arts Commission
City Hall Rotunda Gallery
Bethlehem, PA
February 1- 28
Opening reception: Feb. 6
National Photography ’10 Exhibition
Juried show
The Main Street Gallery
Groton, NY
Southside Vistas “Paint Out 2010”
Juried Art Participation
Bethlehem Fine Arts Commission
A Day of Painting and Photographing
Southside Bethlehem
October 7-28, 2011
Redwood Forest Foundation
Paint the Forests 2010
Silver Medal Winner - Photography Category
National Touring Exhibition
Inaugural Exhibit:
Lee Youngman Gallery
Calistoga, CA
Second Regional Exhibition:
Edgewater Gallery
Fort Bragg, California
Art for Relief Auction
Benefit for The Schonstedt Humanitarian
Demining Initiative
George School
Newtown, PA
Art, Craft and Design Auction
Hunterdon Art Museum
Art Party
7 Lower Center Street
Clinton, NJ
Art Connections 5
George Segal Gallery
Montclair State University
Montclair, NJ
Area Artists 2009 (4-person show)
Siegal Gallery
Lehigh University
Bethlehem, PA
Artist talk & Reception
ARTIST IN RESIDENCE
May 2007 - December 2010
Media Lab - Williams Arts Building
Lafayette College
Easton, PA
ARTIST LECTURES
August 2010
Pilchuck Glass School
Stanwood, WA
July 2010
Lehigh Valley Photography Club
Banana Factory
Bethlehem, PA
AWARDS
September 2010
Silver Medal winner
The Redwood Forest Foundation
Paint the Redwoods National Juried Photo and
Art Competition
Mendocino, CA
COLLECTIONS
Corporate
2011
Lehigh Valley Health Network. Permanent Art Collection Allentown, PA
2009
Lehigh University, Permanent Art Collection, Bethlehem, PA
Many Private Collections