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This series of works emerges from my interest in urban industrial vernacular architecture — in this case from sites in Japan.
I love the poetic relationship presented by making art about the grand qualities of mundane buildings — especially in a large-scale, panoramic format. Each scene is an abstraction of a three dimensional space as well as an abstraction of the passage of time throughout that space.
I strive to capture architecture as a living process — of construction and deconstruction. The unexpected juxtapositions left by the marks of people who build and occupy these spaces embody the same organic concept. The layers of history are also brought to life in this panoramic format as the eye compares the relationship of buildings and the spaces between them.
Past Exhibits
- Ari Salomon and Andy Vogt, SFMOMA Minna and Natoma windows, San Francisco (2010)
- SMaLL, CordenPotts Gallery, San Francisco (2010)
- Slideshow Screening Produced by Yoichi Nagata, Yokohama Photo Festival, Yokohama, Japan (2010)
- It’s Still Life, RayKo Photo Center, San Francisco (2009)
- CCA’s Annual Photography Auction, In association with Review Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico (2009)
- Japan: New Panoramas, solo show, SFMOMA Artists Gallery, San Francisco (2009)
- New Panoramic Photos 2 person show, The Uptown, Oakland (2008)
- ART SALE 12 benefit auction, The LAB, San Francisco (2008)
- OPTIC ILLUSION benefit auction, Southern Exposure, San Francisco (2008)
- Insider/Outsider, Root Division, SF (2008)
- Annual Benefit Auction, SF Camerawork, SF (2008)
- ART SALE 11 benefit auction, The LAB, San Francisco (2007)
- soeX MARKS THE SPOT benefit auction, Southern Exposure, San Francisco (2007)
- Sixth International Festival of Photography juried show, Lodz Art Center, Poland (2007)
- Ten by Ten group show, Mina Dresden gallery, San Francisco (2007)
- 3rd Annual IAPP Juried Panoramic Photography Contest and Exhibition juried show, Valley Photo Center, Springfield, Massachusetts (2007)
- Gen Art's 10th Annual EMERGE juried show, The Warfield Building, San Francisco (2007)
- New Photographs solo show, Squat and Gobble Cafe, San Francisco (2006)
- Lost in Translation group show, ARTworkSF Gallery, San Francisco (2006)
- What Lies Beneath group show, ARTworkSF Gallery, San Francisco (2006)
- SF-Paris Artist Exchange group show, Cachi Gallery, San Francisco (2006)