An “Artist Statement” is an admission that the artist really wishes to be a writer.

Photography began in black and white because in the beginning that was what was possible. But unlike wet plates or salted prints, black and white is no anachronism. Every good photographer has at least an instinctive understanding of why monochrome will always be an expressive, eloquent, and even fashionable form of photography.

In monochrome, we can work only with shades of gray. Recording neither hue, nor saturation. Can we do the opposite? Can we omit the light and dark and make an expressive photo using only the color that is lost in black and white?

All the best reasons for making a monochrome picture apply equally: The photo is freed from the expectation if literal representation of its subject. The same degree of abstraction and control can be achieved. And finally, such photos can be made “straight” in the same sense as any photograph, with no manipulation of the image formed by the lens.

Began working in free-color photography in 1995.

Education
Studied with Pavel Banka, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio [1993]
PhD, Nuclear Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin [1991]
BA, Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois

2003
“Photography 2003” The STAGE Gallery, Merrick, New York
“Texas National 2003” Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, Texas
“The Photography Show” Art House on Ingersoll, Des Moines, Iowa

2002
“Fiber and Photographs” Galesburg Civic Art Center, Galesburg, Illinois
“The Wine of Forgiveness” Quad Cities Art Center, Rock Island, Illinois
“Iowa Landscapes by Iowa Artists” University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, Iowa
34th Annual Clay, Fiber, Paper, . . . Exhibtion” Octagon Center for the Arts, Ames, Iowa