My work uses layers of motion and abstraction to capture the speed and onslaught of digital information in the age of AI fakery. I achieve my effects using light painting techniques, kinetic camera movements, multiple exposures and layering/blending of images. I do not “paint” or “draw” anything onto these images. I allow the image software to act as digital chemistry and little else. I take my photographs according to a deeply personal creative vision, and hope it will connect on an emotional level with the viewer. I call these works “sensor paintings,” because of the dynamic, physical way I use the camera as both brush and canvas.
As a teenager, the first artist whose work I can remember truly speaking to me was Franz Kline. His bold, architectural brush strokes, so brazen and confident, introduced me to a new artistic language. Soon I was prowling museums and galleries, and the Art History section of my local library, learning all I could. I tried my hand at drawing, painting, and stone lithography, but despite the best efforts of the fine instructors at the Art Students League in NYC, I knew that I didn’t have the calling to be like the painters I so admired.
That all changed in 1996 when I purchased one of the first affordable digital cameras, a $400 Casio that had a whopping 68K resolution (!). At the time I was living in Williamsburg, Brooklyn and publishing an arts and literary newspaper out of Manhattan’s East Village. That Casio and I were inseparable; I used it everywhere, for everything, every day. In 1998 I had my first show, a study of the work of Jim Power, the infamous “Mosaic Man” of Greenwich Village. It was an exciting time, but reality beckoned, and I parlayed my burgeoning digital expertise into a full-time career as corporate videographer/photographer, multimedia artist, and web designer.
Like many folks, the Covid epidemic changed my perspective on a lot of things. I left corporate work in 2020, and began exploring the beautiful area around my home in the NW corner of Connecticut for new artistic inspiration. This website is the result of that search. My latest work takes me full circle to the abstract expressionism that first opened my eyes to fine art.
Thank you for your kind interest in my work.
Education
DePaul University, Multimedia Communications
University of Chicago, Writing
Art Students League, Lithography, Drawing, Painting
Photo Manhattan, DSLR Videography Certificate
Tim Hall Digital
Falls Village, CT