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Darkroom 2024
A few of my favorite darkroom prints from 2024 :]
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ERASED Film Series
This ongoing series explores how an adoption impacted a family.
Film Stills 2025
NYC & Chicago, 2007.
The above 11x14 silver-gelatin print won a national gold key
award at the 2008 Scholastic Art & Writing Competition (SOLD*)
award at the 2008 Scholastic Art & Writing Competition (SOLD*)
ViViAN MAiER's PLA$TiC
"shame"
-John Maloof, Oscar Nominee
ViViAN MAiER's PLa$TiC
Artist Statement
ViViAN MAiER’s PLa$TiC is a series of mixed-media, lens-based, time-based, and performance-based artworks that were created from the original negatives of Vivian Maier. The negatives have been physically manipulated with abrasives, chemicals, heat, and other methods. The exact image capture dates of the manipulated negative aren't known, though other images from the ARTHoLE Collection of Maier negatives date from between roughly 1966-1973. ViViAN MAiER's PLa$TiC examines the ethics surrounding the interesting case of famous "Chicago nanny photographer" Vivian Maier through defiant recontextualization of her photography.
The negatives from The ARTHoLE Collection were purchased by me on eBay between 2008 and 2009, originally intended for use in mixed-media artworks. In 2016, I identified the subject in several self-portraits as Vivian Maier. After discovering her identity, I arranged an in-person meeting with John Maloof - the noted authority on Maier and director of the documentary Finding Vivian Maier - on March 8, 2017. The purpose of this meeting was to authenticate the negatives and assess their potential value. Maloof’s initial estimate valued The ARTHoLE Collection of approximately 1,300 medium format negatives at around $1 per image.
Vivian Maier's world-renowned photographs are currently sold by the prestigious Howard Greenberg Gallery in New York City. Non-Disclosure Agreements between the Estate of Vivian Maier, John Maloof, and presumably the Howard Greenberg Gallery, allow exclusive printing & selling rights of the posthumously famous Maier's work. Maier's prints sell for roughly $3500 to $6000 at the Howard Greenberg Gallery.
"Formerly a photographer and founder of The Center for Photography in Woodstock in 1977, Howard Greenberg has been one of a small group of gallerists, curators and historians responsible for the creation and development of the modern market for photography" -howardgreenberg.com.
Artist Statement
ViViAN MAiER’s PLa$TiC is a series of mixed-media, lens-based, time-based, and performance-based artworks that were created from the original negatives of Vivian Maier. The negatives have been physically manipulated with abrasives, chemicals, heat, and other methods. The exact image capture dates of the manipulated negative aren't known, though other images from the ARTHoLE Collection of Maier negatives date from between roughly 1966-1973. ViViAN MAiER's PLa$TiC examines the ethics surrounding the interesting case of famous "Chicago nanny photographer" Vivian Maier through defiant recontextualization of her photography.
The negatives from The ARTHoLE Collection were purchased by me on eBay between 2008 and 2009, originally intended for use in mixed-media artworks. In 2016, I identified the subject in several self-portraits as Vivian Maier. After discovering her identity, I arranged an in-person meeting with John Maloof - the noted authority on Maier and director of the documentary Finding Vivian Maier - on March 8, 2017. The purpose of this meeting was to authenticate the negatives and assess their potential value. Maloof’s initial estimate valued The ARTHoLE Collection of approximately 1,300 medium format negatives at around $1 per image.
Vivian Maier's world-renowned photographs are currently sold by the prestigious Howard Greenberg Gallery in New York City. Non-Disclosure Agreements between the Estate of Vivian Maier, John Maloof, and presumably the Howard Greenberg Gallery, allow exclusive printing & selling rights of the posthumously famous Maier's work. Maier's prints sell for roughly $3500 to $6000 at the Howard Greenberg Gallery.
"Formerly a photographer and founder of The Center for Photography in Woodstock in 1977, Howard Greenberg has been one of a small group of gallerists, curators and historians responsible for the creation and development of the modern market for photography" -howardgreenberg.com.
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Cameraless Photography on Polaroid Film
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Artprize 2024, Grand Rapids, Michigan
