Frank Abruzzese

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30" x 25" [edition of 5] 

 

30" x 25" [edition of 5] 

 

30" x 25" [edition of 5] 

 

30" x 25" [edition of 5] 

 

30" x 25" [edition of 5] 

 

30" x 25" [edition of 5] 

 

30" x 25" [edition of 5] 

 

Frank Abruzzese is an American photographer living and working in Dublin. He graduated from San Francisco Art Institute with an MFA Photography in 2004. Selected exhibitions include: 'Cream', Arts Benicia, Benicia, California (2004);Master of Fine Arts Exhibition, Herbst Pavilion, Fort Mason, San Francisco (2004); 2003 Intervals, ATA, San Francisco; 'Loaded', DAAP Galleries, University of Cincinnati, Ohio (2002); Solo Exhibition, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco (2002); 'Pause', Piazzo Piccolomini, Pienza, Italy (2002); 'Rethinking Pink', Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco (2002); New Directions, Main Line Center For the Arts, Haverford, Pennsylvania (2001); 'Beaux Arts' Exhibition, Plan B Evolving Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico (2000) and 'It’s in the Bag', College of Santa Fe Fine Arts Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico (2000).

Frank received the Emerging Photographer of the Year Award from San Francisco Magazine in 2004. He is currently working on a commission of Donegal sea scapes and coastlines for the Office of Public Works.

Untitled Landscapes :: "Construction sites are places where sculptural lines and grids of concrete and metal contrast with displaced chaotic debris. Synthetic illumination of artificial light sources and pale blue moonlight strike an odd balance between familiar architectural form and a strange otherworldliness. Displacement highlights an engineering of intangible space resulting in a syntax of points, lines, areas and volumes tracing a landscape with shifting boundaries. A fantastical terrain seemingly not our own, but our creation nonetheless."

Sea Level ::“The subjects of these photographs are constructions. They are not solid, but the less material trace of points and lines created by the paths of moving objects in space. Reference points. In the ocean our gaze is arrested by the horizon. Not nothing, but the place in the distance where the earth falls away from us. This space is vast, but tangible. It is not infinity. It is immediate, concrete, clear and close to us. Open space is no longer a journey to be remade or a race without an end. Not an illusion of a conquest, but a rediscovery of meaning, ‘perceiving that the earth is a form of writing, a geography of which we had forgotten that we ourselves are the author’ - Georges Perec, Species of Spaces.”

 

 

 

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