Work Currently View until November 22 - Tomayko Gallery, Pittsburgh PA
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Silver Eye Center for Photography’s Benefit Auction 2024 features an extraordinary selection of contemporary photography and vintage treasures including many artists featured in exhibitions at Silver Eye. When you bid and collect art from Benefit Auction 2024, you enable Silver Eye to continue to create original exhibitions and provide curatorial, financial, and production support to artists. The Lab @ SilverEye Education Center offers new opportunities to grow community around photography through diverse programs, many of them free.
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I am working in the studio to continue to blend of mediums. For this auction donation I am combining the tintype and the color darkroom RA-4 print to construct new narratives on how we read an image. These works are taken to a sheet metal press after they are cold pressed together.
In Absolute Space 0719 + Untitled Color 4015 unique tintype on blue (opaque) aluminum and unique color darkroom print, 8 x 12 x 2.875 inches, 2024
Stephen Bulger Gallery In Absolute Space, 2024 Solo Exhibition, Toronto, Canada
A heartfelt thanks to the entire team at Stephen Bulger Gallery. In Absolute Space was a huge success and I was honored to meet so many wonderful working artists in/around the Toronto area. Also a big thanks to the OCAD University Senior Thesis students for taking the time to meet with me!
(L-R) Lisette Markiewicz (Sales Assistant), Jay Lourenço (Preparator), Owen Zilles (Registrar), Callah, Myself, Stephen Bulger (President) + Robyn Zolnai (Director)
2023 Studio Update
Silver Eye Center For Photography, In Absolute Space 2023 Solo Exhibition, Pittsburgh, PA
The brilliant curator, Helen Tromptelier created an education guide to my work, which includes writers includes community perspectives by curator Anastasia James, Artists Jason Snyder, and Barbara Weissberger.
The guide to my work is viewable here
An audio guide of me discussing my practice can also be found via the Bloomberg Connects app located here
2023 January: if one were to place their head close to the center of my tintype installation and look up
2022 Winter: 2019 tintype over a 2016 gelatin silver print
2022 August Update
current work in progress
my new work is not just about the tintype process, but how my experimental methods have evolved non-linearly both in and out of the darkroom. There are parallels and patterns throughout the past ten years.
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In Absolute Space are 20 x 24 inch wet plate collodion on aluminum (tintypes), that will be assembled + sculpted into three dimensional works. They were constructed in the darkroom without a camera and will be included in a solo exhibition at Silver Eye Center for Photography March 2 - April 28, 2023.
In Absolute Space 107191, collodion wet plate on gold and silver (bright) aluminum, 44 x 12 x 10 inches, 2022
2021 Fall; Current Work in Progress
after deferring my sabbatical this past academic year I was fortunate to receive a semester break from teaching. I developed new skills outside of the darkroom spending most of my studio time in Protohaven’s sheet metal facilities
Recent Exhibition: Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, The Implications of the Camera, December 18, 2020 - May 22, 2021
THE RESPONSIBILITY OF BEING AN ALLY - a call for support -
Untitled Color 0320, 16 x 20 inches, unique collaged chromogenic prints, 2020, signed on verso
AUCTION TO BENEFIT SILVER EYE CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY
Commissioned for Silver Eye Center for Photography, who keeps lens based arts thriving in our community.
Auction ends July 9th at 7pm. All bidding will take place on Artsy
Untitled Color 0315, 8 x 10 inches, unique chromogenic print, 2015, signed on verso
STANDING IN SOLIDARITY TO HELP RAISE FUNDS FOR True T PGH
100% of the Proceeds of this fundraiser helped raise funds for True T PGH a community platform for LGBTQ resource sharing, queer arts, activism, and entertainment. In collaboration with TransYOUniting,
2014-2018, color darkroom calibration tests with subtractive color print viewing filters, used to create CMY RGB and Untitled Color prints
2014-2014 gelatin silver tonal prints used to create Spectator images and collages