vuoti di memoria | memory gaps

16 gennaio 2013

28 dicembre 2012

25 novembre 2012

09 settembre 2012

17 agosto 2012

12 maggio 2012

06 maggio 2012

08 aprile 2012

07 aprile 2012

29 marzo 2012

17 marzo 2012

11 febbraio 2012

10 febbraio 2012

16 gennaio 2012

01 gennaio 2012

22 dicembre 2011

09 dicembre 2011

30 novembre 2011

21 novembre 2011

06 novembre 2011

SELECTED RECENT EXHIBITIONS: 2010 Galleria AOC, Rome (solo)

2010 FOCVS – St Stephen’s Cultural Foundation, Rome

SOUVENIR - Rome and all things Italian were always present in my home in America. Over the couch hung a large antique map of Rome, my parents used Italian as their secret language and even when I was five, to convince me to cut my long hair short following a bubble gum accident, my father announced, “I will give you an Italian haircut.” In 1968 for a year I lived in Rome with my family and I remember being intrigued by the proximity of the past to the present. I would walk among the ruins searching for fragments of ancient pottery. I would gather them up like treasure and hide them away - souvenirs of the past and markers of the moment. At the end of a memorable year, when the plane touched down on the runway bringing me “home,” I came to the sudden realization that Rome was my real home. At that moment I knew I would return there to live. I was twelve years old. Today I look at Rome through my camera with the same enthusiasm as I searched for those souvenirs as a child. Like an archeologist I work with recovery, documentation, analysis, and interpretation towards understanding, but I investigate my present. By selecting, focusing and contrasting images I strive to form associations that illuminate my personal history.

2009 I nuovi inquisitori - MassenzioArte, Rome

SHADOWS OF IDEAS is comprised of eight photographs that signify the years Giordano Bruno was imprisoned and tortured for his ideas. Man can be enclosed in a finite square but will always seek out infinity. While considering the theme of this exhibition I became interested in the life and work of Giordano Bruno. His vigorous appeal to reason and logic as the basis for determining truth intrigued me. He impersonated the revolt of our inner being against existing thought and the longing to go further and find more. The pursuit of truth is to look outside the box, the ability to question, interpret and understand life in all it forms. The universe is infinite, but it is only man’s freedom of thought that recognizes it to be so.

2009 CONFINI07 – Florence, Rome, Turin & Palermo

The MIS-TAKES series is a grouping of photographs that I collected for years while working on other things. The pictures from a roll that were “mistakes”, over exposed, out of focus or pictures taken by mistake when I thought the camera was off. Only in 2004 at an important moment in my life, when I too was out of focus, confused and intent on concentrating on my own mistakes did I succeed in seeing them as a grouping of months. The colors suggested to me certain degrees of warmth. I wanted to use the title as a play on the word mistake. The impossibility to see anything clearly in each photograph was what intrigued me, their total abstraction.

2008 FUORI 3 - Galleria Gallerati, Rome

2008 Obiettivo Donna - Officine Fotografiche, Rome

VUOTI DI MEMORIA|MEMORY GAPS - This is the image that inspired me to create the “Vuoti di memoria/Memory Gaps” series (2008), a little boy riding a bicycle and glancing behind him. Found among some old photographs in a friend’s cellar the image seemed to capture how we go through life, charging ahead but always looking back to try and make sense of it all. The Gaps are intended as empty spaces or breaks of continuity, a loss or gap is often what stimulates or forces us to see more clearly. Memory is intended as the act or an instance of remembering, a re-collection to acquire or possess again a moment or action in the past as an attempt to put the passage of time into a personal order. The adhesive sticker sheets that obscure some of the photographs were collected when my daughter was small. Intrigued with the arbitrary voids left when put over photographs from my past, their color and numbers that referred to the pictures/stickers once attached to them now refer to the pictures below, creating a new visual relationship changing how we perceive the past. This concept of void acts in the work as a formal device to create form just as our memories force us to search harder for the essence and meaning of experience. “La visione è l'arte di vedere le cose invisibili. / Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.” - Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)

2007 FOTOLEGGENDO 2007 – ISA, Rome

PASSI D'AMORE - In the summer of 2007 I began an early morning regime of power walking near my house and I, literally, stumbled over these writings or graffiti. As I was walking I was thinking about the exact same things these graffiti were communicating with the written word: attraction, affection, rejection and “amore”. I was interested in why the authors of these writings had felt such a strong need to communicate and make permanent their desires, feelings and emotions of love in such a way as to include anyone willing to look down.