Comforts of Home - figments of domestic tranquility
Comforts of Home-figments of domestic tranquility came about as I searched in recent years for connections between my early, quickly taken photographs of street scenes and the slower, contemplative landscape work that followed. These are figments of a world that isn’t as real as it looks at first glance, that isn’t quite the world we see around us. They re-examine and reorganize my photographic life, creating pictures that question comfortable reality
The series invites us into some precarious places and unsettling living situations perhaps to discover something of the lives of the phantom occupants. Planes and perspective conflict and contradict. Exteriors intrude into interiors through windows and doors left carelessly ajar. What people there are, are mere ghostly blurs or fragmented presences at the picture’s edge. Wandering these unstable environments, hoping to uncover their stories, we are aware of time as an active element.
Comforts of Home images have been exhibited at:
Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC; JFK Center for the Performing Arts, Washington DC; Philadelphia Museum of Art; ; Delaware Art Museum; Art Museum at SUNY Albany NY; Houston Center for Photography; Blue Sky Gallery/Oregon Ctr. For Photographic Arts, Portland OR; Hyde Collection, Glens Falls NY; The Light Factory, Charlotte NC; Photo Resource Center, Boston; Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY; Kleinert/James Gallery, Woodstock NY; Albany Institute of History & Art; Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz NY; Gallery 1401, Philadelphia; The Print Center, Philadelphia; Albany International Airport; Soho Photo, NY,NY; Elena Zang Gallery, Woodstock, NY.
The series invites us into some precarious places and unsettling living situations perhaps to discover something of the lives of the phantom occupants. Planes and perspective conflict and contradict. Exteriors intrude into interiors through windows and doors left carelessly ajar. What people there are, are mere ghostly blurs or fragmented presences at the picture’s edge. Wandering these unstable environments, hoping to uncover their stories, we are aware of time as an active element.
Comforts of Home images have been exhibited at:
Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC; JFK Center for the Performing Arts, Washington DC; Philadelphia Museum of Art; ; Delaware Art Museum; Art Museum at SUNY Albany NY; Houston Center for Photography; Blue Sky Gallery/Oregon Ctr. For Photographic Arts, Portland OR; Hyde Collection, Glens Falls NY; The Light Factory, Charlotte NC; Photo Resource Center, Boston; Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY; Kleinert/James Gallery, Woodstock NY; Albany Institute of History & Art; Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz NY; Gallery 1401, Philadelphia; The Print Center, Philadelphia; Albany International Airport; Soho Photo, NY,NY; Elena Zang Gallery, Woodstock, NY.