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Making photographs brings imagination, light, nature, time and space together with a transcendence to reality for me. Working exclusively in natural light, I emphasize natural surrealism while engaging the emotions evoked by the natural realm, especially the mystery or magical essence of light-play in the world. Photography provides me an expressive channel that transcends language. My pictures emerge through imagination and experience with the interaction between light and subject supported by a keen interest in natural history.
I personally make all of my photographs and create individual, archival, photographic, color pigment prints. Working exclusively in natural light, I emphasize surreal landscapes and closeups, engaging the emotions evoked by the natural realm, especially the mystery or magical essence of light-play in the world.
My images originate using 35MM and 4x5 color transparency film scanned at high resolution, and high resolution digital cameras to match the natural image for direct color printing. Using archival color pigment digital printing techniques and materials, I create luminous prints with full color and tonal depth on acid free, 100% cotton fiber, fine art paper. This allows me to create individual, finished prints as faithful to the natural image as possible and of heirloom quality, in signed and numbered editions. Finishing each print includes 8 ply museum matte and solid natural cherry or white maple framing.
Using the print as a record of growth and a means of sharing, I pursue greater connection with my medium and how light graces each subject. The advent of digital print making enables a level of control and quality long exclusive to black and white darkroom prints. I find digital color pigment prints increasingly satisfying with truly archival quality, luminescence, accurate color quality, and full tonal depth. Fulfilling my goal of sharing the results of photographic imagery remains my 40 year passion through fine color archival prints.
Biography:
Photography provides me an expressive channel that transcends language. Creating natural images fulfills a core need to share my creative response to what I see. I strive to engage the emotions evoked by the natural realm, especially the mystery or magical essence of light-play in the world. I believe in the meeting of father sky and mother earth under the grace of light for me to see some of the visual essence of nature in making personally satisfying images. My pictures emerge through imagination and experience with the interaction between light and subject supported by a keen interest in natural history.
Using the print as a record of growth and a means of sharing, I pursue greater connection with my medium and how light graces each subject. The advent of digital print making enables a level of control and quality long exclusive to black and white wet darkroom processes. I find digital color pigment prints increasingly satisfying with truly archival quality, luminescence, accurate color quality, and full tonal depth. Fulfilling my goal of sharing the results of photographic imagery remains my 40 year passion through fine, archival prints.
Collections/Representation:
Hogan Gallery, Moab, Utah
Phillips Gallery, Salt Lake City, Utah
Currant & Up-coming Events:
March 4 to April 14, 2006, ‘Ways & Passages' one-man show Art Barn, Park Gallery, Salt Lake City Arts Council, Utah
August 1 to September 5, 2006, ‘Surreal Passages’ one-man show Durango Art Center Gallery, Colorado
Recent Individual Shows & Festivals:
2005 ‘Passages’ one-man show Chapman Library Gallery, Salt Lake City, Utah
2005 ‘Sedona Arts Festival’, Sedona, Arizona
2005 ‘Art Fair Jackson Hole’, Jackson, Wyoming
2005 ‘Park City Arts Festival', Park City, Utah
2005 ‘Summer Fest in The Pines', Flagstaff, Arizona
Recent Group Shows/Awards:
2006 Cambridge Art Association's 'National Prize Show', Kathryn Schultz Gallery and University Place, Cambridge, Massachusetts, May & June, Juried group exhibition.
2005 Cambridge Art Association's National Prize Show, Kathryn Schultz Gallery and University Place, Cambridge, Massachusetts – juried by: Joseph C. Thompson Director, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA).
2005 ‘Award of Artistic Excellence’, National Juried Art Exhibition, Regional Artists Consortium, San Antonio, TX July, 2005
2005 Nature Photography Exhibition, Monte L. Bean Life Science Museum, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah.
2005 State Wide Competition and Exhibition, Bountiful-Davis Art Center, Bountiful, Utah.
2004 "A Season of Non-violence" New Vision Gallery, Salt Lake City, Utah, February,'First Purchase Award'
2003 Honorable Mention, National Prize Show, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, Massachusetts
2004 ‘Season for Non-violence', New Vision Gallery, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Online Exhibits:
Imagedancer
Art Exchange
Project 30
Pbase
Studio:
3631 So. Carolyn St.
Salt Lake City, UT 84106
Phone: 801-558-0875
Email: marv@imagedancer.com
Educational & Study Background:
Graduate of the University of Utah, 1971 with a B.S. in Humanities and special study in photography. Studied commercial photography under Borge Andersen and Brent Herridge as well as independent study in darkroom manipulation and gelatin print technique. Gained proficiency in color darkroom techniques which now extend into the virtual darkroom of digital color pigment printing. On going interest in developing digital imaging and print technique with more than 25 years of increasingly intense utilization of digital technology.
Professional Associations:
Member of NAIA the National Association of Independent Artists
Member of PPA, Professional Photographers of America
Member of PDIA, Professional Digital Imaging Association
Publications:
Guild Source Book 18 participation with a portfolio published in September, 2003, page 249.
My work has appeared variously in magazines, books, calendars, stationary, and exhibitions, including: National Geographic publications, National Wildlife publications, Canoe Magazine, Nature Conservancy publications, North American Rock Garden Society Bulletin, American Horticultural Society publications, World Wildlife Fund publications, Peavine Productions products, Backpacker Magazine, Kendal Hunt Publishing science books, World Wildlife Fund books, Franklin Watts Publishing, Grosvenor Publishing, and Macmillan Publishing. Exhibitions have included numerous events in Utah and the West, and international salons, including the Singapore International Salon of Photography.