Personal Work
Redefining Nature
The artist Duane Michals once said, “We’re not our eyeballs, we’re our mind.” He continues by explaining how art should deal with all of the human condition, and most photographs are only meant to please. I want my brain to be stimulated in a gallery, not just my eyes. I don’t want to be comforted, I want to be confronted. I want to feel it all: pain, humor, bewilderment. I want old memories dug up.
Such thoughts have guided my urge to explore human nature through the manipulation of nature. In this work, I am returning to straight photography, however by altering the scene I am creating some sort of open-ended tension and confusion left for the viewer to deal with themselves. Similar to abstract painting, I look at each photograph as a visual poem that is to be deciphered and experienced on a personal level. I am “Redefining Nature Photography”.
Background
Biography
I am a Video Editor and Digital Artist with 20+ years in photography and post-processing, 7+ years of professional video editing, and 4+ years as a senior agency lead. My creative approach, deeply informed by an MFA in Photography, merges fine-art intuition with custom-built automated workflows and modern AI pipelines. This allows me to bring a distinct, systematized visual perspective to every project.
My personal work has been exhibited in galleries across the East Coast, featured in solo performances, and published in FRAMES Magazine. My current practice sits at the intersection of the analog and the digital,blending low-tech toy cameras and experimental optics with super-weird editing and custom automated actions to explore the possibilities of imagery.
Education
MFA in Photography | The Ohio State University | 2015
BFA in Computer Art | Syracuse University | 2007
- Visiting Student (Photography) | Rhode Island School of Design | 2006
- College Studies (E-Design) | Philadelphia University | 2005
Achievements
Award: Grand Prize - Adobe Photoshop International Editing Competition (2013)
Developer: PrompterGuide AI - Online resource & tools for AI image generation (2024)
Commission: 3D Sculpting - Created graphics in Virtual Reality for a tech start-up (2022)
Publication: Featured Artist - International FRAMES Magazine 6th edition (2022)
Grant: Recipient - Judith Youshock Artist’s Grant and Solo Exhibition (2015)
Solo Exhibitions
Self-Portraits - Waverly Small Works Gallery, Waverly PA
Redefining Nature Photography - CameraWork, Scranton PA
Altered States - AFA Gallery, Scranton PA
Theta Waves Performance, AFA Gallery, Scranton PA
Theta Waves Performance, The Wonderstone Gallery, Dunmore PA
Theta Waves Performance, NEPA Art Fair, Scranton PA
Visions - Art & Wine Festival, Clarks Summit PA
Group Exhibitions
2025 - RI Center for Photographic Arts, Providence RI
Roger Williams Park Gateway Center “Gallery Night”, Providence RI
2024 - Friends of India Point Park 50th Anniversary Exhibition, Providence RI
2023 - AI Video Art Exhibition, Emerging from Latent Space, Austin TX
Gallery Opening, Keen Eye Studio, Folly Beach SC
2022 - 1st Annual JIACC Juried Exhibition, Charleston SC
2019 - Altered Realities, PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury VT
Juror: Brooke Shaden
2018 - Signature Show, Charleston Visitor Center, Charleston SC
Selected Artists, Waverly Small Works Gallery, Waverly PA
Members' Exhibition, Summer, AFA Gallery, Scranton PA
2017 - Artist’s For Art Members’ Exhibition, Winter, AFA Gallery, Scranton PA
Winter, Waverly Small Works Gallery, Waverly PA
SCREAMworks II, SteamWorks gallery, Scranton PA
Scranton Fringe Festival 2017, Scranton PA
Arts On The Square 2017, Scranton PA
Members' Exhibition, Summer, AFA Gallery, Scranton PA
Spring Photography Exhibition, Waverly Small Works Gallery, Waverly PA
Juror: Rob Lettieri, awarded Best In Show
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