| My life in photography began at age 7 when I noticed my older brother taking photos with my dad's camera and asked him if I could take some, too. Dad loaded his Hasselblad, showed me how to trip the shutter and sent me outside. When I finished the roll of film I asked him to load it again, but he wouldn't. Instead, he told me if I wanted to be a photographer I'd have to build my own camera and process my own film. So, he helped me make a pinhole camera out of Kodak film boxes, and took me to his darkroom and showed me how to develop the pictures I took. I've been taking them ever since. I was educated in Portland at the Museum Art School, now the Pacific Northwest College of Art, and apprenticed with several renowned artists and photographers. I was a studio assistant and photographer, shooting catalogs and advertisements for prominent companies. Working Commercial/Industrial photographic assignments gives me the freedom to pursue the photography I yearned to do. Death Valley was my first subject, and from there Trish and I began to explore all of Nevada. Now we live in Eureka, in an 1880 bank building, complete with vault, where we operate the Eureka Gallery to sell our work and that of regional artists. My best work is the product of curiosity: photographs I never intended to take, in places I never intended to visit. My color work is all digital now and is available through Monsoon Images and PhotoLibrary.com, but curiosity led me to take my black & white landscape photographs with disposable plastic cameras reloaded with Tri-X film. It's low-tech and unassuming, and the wide format emphasizes the vastness of the American West. I manipulate the image through processing and printing to convey my feelings about the subject. ______________________________________________ Selected Exhibitions & Honors "Plastic Fantastic II" Juried plastic camera show LightBox Photographic Gallery, Astoria, OR 6/11 – 7/6/2011 Award Creator for the Nevada Humanities "2011 Judith Winzeler Award for Excellence in the Humanities" Carson City, NV 3/31/2011 RayKo Photo Center, 4th Annual International Juried Plastic Camera Show; San Francisco, CA 3/4 - 4/30/2011 Award Creator for the Nevada Humanities "Arts & Humanities Award for Public Service", Carson City, NV 2/25/2011 lacda; "SNAP TO GRID, the UN-Juried Exhibit" Los Angeles, CA 11/11 - 12/4 / 2010 Western Folklife Center's Wiegand Gallery; "Where the Cowboy Once Roamed" Elko, NV 8/14 - 12/10/2010 Northeastern Nevada Museum; Two Person Show; Elko, NV 4/22 - 6/22/2010 RayKo Photo Center, International Juried Plastic Camera Show; San Francisco, CA 2-4/10 Watson Gallery, Fantastic Plastic, International juried competition; Austin, TX 7- 9/09 LXS Gallery, Nevada State Legislature Building, Carson City, NV; 4/09 Northeastern Nevada Museum, Elko, NV; Wally World group show; 8/08 Sierra Arts, Reno, NV; 2008 Biggest Little Art Show: Nevada Wide Open; juried group show; winner; 3/08 The Eureka Courthouse Gallery, Eureka, NV; Nevadarama; one person show; 1/08 - 4/08 McKinley Arts Center, Reno, NV; Nevadarama; one person show; 10/07 Artown, Reno, NV; American Arts Festival: Faces & Places of America; juried group show; Best of Show; 7/07 Classroom Gallery, Oats Park Art Center; Fallon, NV; Nevadarama; 2/06 - 3/06 Audubon Wild Arts Festival, Portland, OR; juried group show; 11/05 Mark Wooley Gallery, Portland, OR; One Foot After Another; juried group show; 3/05 - 4/05 Metro Gallery, Reno, NV; Panorama Nevada; one person show; 6/04 - 7/04 Washington State University, Vancouver, WA; Along the Columbia; one person show; 11/03 - 12/03 Metro Gallery, Reno, NV; Polaroid Transfers; 2/03 - 3/03 Artique Gallery, Portland, OR; Western Stills; two person show; 8/01 Sierra Arts, Reno, NV; NEVADA; 9/01 - 10/01 Benham Gallery, Seattle, WA; Photonica Presents...; group show; 3/97 Obscura Gallery, Portland, OR; American Dream; two person show; 9/94 Residencies and Grants Nevada Arts Council Professional Development Grant 3/10 Nevada Arts Council Professional Development Grant 3/09 Nevada Arts Council Jackpot Grant recipient 9/07, 9/08 Artist in Residence, Fallon School District, Fallon, NV; 3/06, 3/07, 2/08 Great Basin National Park; Darwin Lambert Artist in Residence; 10/07 Nevada Arts Council; State of Nevada Artist in Residence; 7/04 - 6/06 Artist in Residence, Virginia City, NV; Virginia City High School; 1/06 |