Artist Statement
Picture making is an instinctive process - the end result is always a surprise. Whether working in still life, portrait, or interiors something resonates with my memory or subconscious and I am drawn to record what I see. A kind of bridge between the timelessness of the unconscious mind and reality.
The outcome desired by the artist is usually for the viewer to feel something, to have a reaction to the work in some way- to disrupt the everyday patterned thinking and lodge a new idea or emotional fingerprint into the viewer’s experience. To achieve this, the artist must first experience that which he wishes to convey, and then take up the challenge of making the experience tangible. The externalization of thought processed and transformed by our consciousness.
Of course not all viewers will be similarly affected. The work instead lies in wait for those predisposed to its message- silently waiting within its frame; it effectively has an identity target market. Our identity, our current focus, and our current priorities all affect the response to our work, and often that response will be for the viewer to walk on by. However, from time-to-time a match will be found, and the viewer will not walk on by, but pause to absorb the work and perhaps walk away with something new.
"the work has an almost fetishistic quality, it seems to spring from the desire to capture and preserve, and tightly frame an evanescent emotion, a dissolving memory." Aletti
Selected Collections
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
The Denver Art Museum, Denver, Co
The Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA
The George Eastman House International Center of Photography, Rochester, NY
Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL
Bidwell Projects, Cleveland, OH
Manfred Heiting Collection, Los Angeles, CA
John Bennette III Collection, New York
Gernsheim Collection, University of Texas, Austin, TX
Collection Dancing Bear W.M. Hunt, NY
Forbes Collection, New York
The Dow Jones Collection, New York
Essence Collection, New York
The Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska
The Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame
Exhibitions
2013
Print Room Showcase, Klompching Gallery, NY
2012
"The Unseen Eye", William Hunt, Curator, The Oregon Center for the Arts
2011
"The Unseen Eye: Photographs from the W.M. Hunt Collection", The George Eastman House, International Museum of Photography
2010
The Unseen Eye: Photography From The Collection of WM Hunt, Appleton Museum of Art
2007
Degrees of Separation, Peer Gallery, NY
2006
Immaterial World, Stephen Cohen Gallery, Los Angeles, Ca
The Art of Getting Ready, 30 Days of Fashion, Hearst Corporation,NY
2004
Reverie, Hooks-Epstein Gallery, Houston, TX
Miniatures, Hooks-Epstein Gallery, Houston, TX
Photography Now, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Ala
2002
New Acquisitions/New Work/New Directions 3: Contemporary Selections
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Reverie, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York
From Here to There, Yancey Richardson Gallery, NY
Imagination's Vibrancy, Galerie Francoise, Baltimore, MD
Near Memory, Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, TX
Is That You?, Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
Eye on 2000, Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, TX
Female, curated by Vince Aletti, Wessel O'Connor, NY
In Primary Light, Yancey Richardson Gallery, NY
Fever, Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
Discoveries of FotoFest, Houston, TX
In Primary Light, Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
In Primary Light, Stephen Cohen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Male, curated by Vince Aletti, Wessel O'Connor Gallery, NY
New Acquisitions, 1997-1998, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Portraits, 19th and 20th Century Photography, Marlborough Gallery, New York
A Collection of Small Works, Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
1996
Memento Mori, Yancey Richardson Gallery, NY
Treasures for the Community: The Chrysler Collects, 1989-1996
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA
Baby Pictures, Bravin Post Lee Gallery, NY
Delirium, Ricco Maresca Gallery, NY
Alternative Photography, Ward Nasse Gallery, NY
Publications
Lancia Trendvisions, "The Weight of Light" Series "Gravitas", by Frederic Weber , Fabio Falzone, 2012
The Collection,: flakphoto, 2012
reponses photo - n238, janvier 2012
"The Unseen Eye: Photographs from the W.M. Hunt Collection", Aperture, 2011
Forbes Collectors Eye, Contemporary Photography, John Bennette, August 2005
Curve: The Female Nude Now, Rizzoli Press, 2003
Art + Auction, October 2003
Woodstock Center of Photography Quarterly, Issue 86, 2003
The New York Times, Art in Review, Ken Johnson, May 2002
The Village Voice, Vince Aletti, VOL.XLVII, no. 24 June, 2002
The Art Newspaper, VOL.XIII, no 126, June, 2002
B&W Magazine, Issue 19 June, 2002
The New York Magazine, VoL. 35, no.17, May 2002
The New York Times, Art in Review, Ken Johnson, May 2002
The Village Voice, Vince Aletti, March 16, 1999
photo metro, VOL. 17, Issue 152, Fall 1998
Aperture 148 Delirium, 1997
American Photo, Volume VIII, no.2
Flash Art, VOL. XXX, no.192
The New Yorker, VOL. LXXII, no.29
The Village Voice, Vince Aletti, September 17, 1996
New York Magazine, VOL. 29, no. 35
Photonews, May 1998
21st , The Journal of Contemporary Photography, Vol. I , 1998
Fellowship
Art Matters Inc. New York, NY
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