"Tempus Incognitus" explores the transitory nature of modern life using hotel rooms in which time and space fade into one another. These images challenge our intuition about time itself and ask about the stories held within these walls. Think Edward Hopper interiors awash in James Turrell colors with David Lynch directing. These hotel rooms lack personal effects to invite a narrative.
"Tempus Incognitus" records the day's transitional times and shows them existing concurrently. The Cubists painted individual scenes from several different perspectives at once. In this series, I photograph individual rooms at several different times of day from a single perspective.
I use a time-intensive technique that captures the evolution of light and emphasizes change in vivid colors. Multiple exposures are shot over 2 days and images are created in camera and on film with no digital manipulation. Each image is composed of 3-9 exposures. Only the light in the room is used – no light is added.
MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS & BIENNIALS
2009 Hearst 8x10 Biennial, Hearst Tower, New York, NY
2008 Foreign potografias, MoMA Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (added to collection in 2011)
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011 Tempus Incognitus, The Independent, Portland OR, (picked Portland's best 2011 photography show)
2010 Tempus Incognitus, De Santos Gallery, Houston TX
2008 New Works, Galerie Maurer, Munich Germany
2007 Layer(s) Organic, Montinore Estate, Forest Grove OR
2006 Day Amalgam, Portland City Hall, 1st Thursday, Portland OR
INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIONS
2013 GeoGráfica, Fototropía of La Fototeca, Guatemala City, Guatemala
2009 ROOTED, Galerie Clairefontaine, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
2007 photographers:network, Thomas Kellner, Siegen Germany
2004 13th Hasselblad Austrian Super Circuit, traveling show Austria, Germany, Qatar, & China, Catalog
2003 World Council for Arts, Juror Marian Parmenter (SFMOMA), Herbst, San Francisco CA, Catalog
US EXHIBITIONS
2013 Blue Sky's Pacific Northwest Viewing Drawers, jurors (Diana Millar, Ed Marquand), Portland OR
2012 2012 Annual Show, Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington DE
2012 Blue Sky's Pacific Northwest Viewing Drawers, jurors (Clint Willour, Laura Moya), Portland OR
2012 Red(2), Mark Woolley Gallery, Portland OR
2011 The Photo Review, Interiors, Stephen Perloff, Langhorne, PA
2011 CAMH Gala Auction, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston TX
2010 14th Annual Friends of Friends Photography Auction, Metropolitan Pavilion, New York NY
2010 Gifted, Littman Gallery, Portland State University, Portland OR
2009 Contemporary Photography Invitational, Flanders Art Gallery, Raleigh NCpact of the colors. The intriguing details of the interactions between colors draw one into an intimate distance to explore.
2007 Walters Art Gallery, Hillsboro, OR
2007 25nd Visual Annual, Beaverton OR, Catalog
2007 Red Ink Studios, San Francisco CA
2006 Mark Woolley Gallery, Portland OR
2006 EPI, Art Wolfe Gallery, Seattle WA
2005 Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins CO
2004 Don O'Melveny Gallery, Hollywood CA
2004 22nd Visual Annual, Beaverton OR, Catalog
2004 Hasselblad Super Circuit, Austria, Germany, Qatar, & China
2003 World Council for Arts, San Francisco CA, Catalog
2003 Scene/Unseen, Runnels Gallery, Portales NM, Catalog
2003 An American Experience, Winston-Salem NC
SELECTED AWARDS & COVERS
2006 1st Place, Alaska Airlines Magazine
2006 Honorable Mention, Art Annual, University of Oregon
2006 2 Awards of Excellence, National Photo Awards Annual
2005 People's Choice, Art Annual, University of Oregon
2005 Honorable Mention, International Photography Awards (IPA)
2005 Cover & Honorable Mention, Photographer's Forum