Born cross-eyed, corrective surgery left me with no depth perception.  Being stereo-blind and lacking stereopsis (the ability to see in 3D), I developed a different way of seeing things, and measuring spaces, layers and distances that I use in my photography.  I’ve taken my handicap and turned it into an advantage.

 

I studied photography and received a BFA from San Francisco Art Institute and MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.  After getting my BFA, I started exhibiting and selling my work.  I landed three galleries representing my work.  As a result my work is in the collections of the Dallas Museum of Art, Seattle Art Museum, Museo Nacional de Antropologia- Mexico, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, The Art Institute of Chicago, and numerous private collections.  The Amon Carter Museum of American Art included me in the exhibition Exploring Sight: Young Photographers in the 1970s.    I was also included in the Macmillan Biographical Encyclopedia of Photographic Artists & Innovators.  

 

I took an extended leave of absence from exhibiting but not photographing.  Now I’m bringing the years of images and recent work back into the fine art photography world.

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Jim, on right, after corrective eye surgery

 

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CV 

Downloadable CV PDF

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Represented in the Catherine Edelman Gallery Chicago Project​​​

 

Recent Accolades​

• All-About-Photo.com - Wide Range Series - Featured Article, 2021

• Loosen Art- Two Exhibitions - Decontext and Environmental Alternations, 2021

• F-Stop & Fraction Magazines- Included in exhibitions, 2021

• Black + White Photography Magazine- Featured Artist, January 2020

• Landscape Exhibition - PhotoPlace Gallery - Juror's Award, 2020

• All-About-Photo.com - Featured as a "Rising Photographer"  2019

• Float Magazine - Featured Portfolio, 2019

• Critical Mass Finalist, 2018

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Permanent Collections

• Art Institute of Chicago - Chicago, IL

• Dallas Museum of Art - Dallas, TX

• Seattle Art Museum - Seattle, WA

• Amon Carter Museum of American Art - Ft. Worth, TX

• MTSU Photographic Gallery - Murfreesboro, TN

• Museo Nacional de Antropologia- Mexico City, Mexico

 

One Person Shows

• Workspace Gallery - Lincoln, NE, 2018

• The Photograph Gallery, Tarrant County Junior College - Hurst, TX, 1985

• Bellocqu Gallery - Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, LA, 1982

• Middle Tennessee State University Photographic Gallery - Murfreesboro, TN, 1981

• University of Denver - Denver, CO, 1979

• The Darkroom - Denver, CO,1979

• Sun Valley Art Center - Sun Valley, ID, 1978

• Sioux City Art Center - Sioux City, lO, 1977

• University of California, Extension Gallery - San Francisco, CA, 1971

• Sun Photo Gallery - Hanover, NH, 1977

• Quivira Photograph Gallery - Albuquerque, NM, 1977

• Cambridge Photo Co-op - Cambridge, MA, 1977

 

Two Person Shows

• Columbia Gallery of Photography - Columbia, MO, 1979

• Foto Gallery - New York, NY, 1978

• New England School of Photography - with Fredrick Sommer - Boston, MA, 1977

• Blue Sky Gallery - with Tom Patton - Portland, OR, 1977

• Quivira Photograph Gallery - Albuquerque, NM, 1976

  

Group Shows​​

• Center for Photographic Art, International Photographic Exhibition- Carmel, CA 2021

  • Darren Ching & Debra Klomp, Curators

• Loosen Art, Environmental Alternations Exhibition - Rome, Italy, 2021

• Loosen Art, Decontext Exhibition - Rome, Italy, 2021

• Center for Fine Art Photography, In Conversation with the Land - Ft. Collins, CO, 2021

  • Karen Haas, Curator​

• Filter Photo, Members Exhibition - Chicago, IL, 2021

  • Jonathan Blaustein, Curator​

• Catherine Edelman Gallery, In/Sight Exhibition, Interiors & Exteriors - Chicago, IL, 2020​

• PhotoPlace, Landscape Exhibition - Middlebury, VT, 2020

  • Ann Jastrab, Curator​

  • Juror's Award

• Filter Photo, Context 2020 - Chicago, IL, 2020

  • Eve Schillo, Curator

• Southeast Center for Photography, Contemporary Landscape - Greenville, NC, 2020​

  • Adam Monohon, Curator​

• Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago Project VII - Chicago, IL, 2018

• Center for Fine Art Photography, Abstract - Ft. Collins, CO, 2018

  • Elizabeth Houston, Curator

• Co|So, Elevated - Boston, MA, 2018

  • Robert Klein, Curator

• Filter Photo, Context 2018- Chicago, IL, 2018

  • April Watson, Curator

• PhotoPlace, Open Call 2018- Middlebury, VT​

  • Douglas Beasley, Curator​

• Amon Carter Museum of American Art - Ft. Worth, TX, 2006

  • Exploring Sight: Young Photographers in the 1970s

• Peter M. David Gallery - Minneapolis, MN, 1986

• Coyote Gallery, Invitational Show - Oroville, CA, 1985

• Cal Arts Photo Competition/Exhibition - Valencia, CA, 1982

• Westwood Center of the Arts, Competition - Los Angeles, CA, 1982

• The Woods Hall Photograph Gallery, Invitational Show - University of Alabama - Tuscaloosa, AL, 1981

• The Art Institute of Chicago -  Chicago, IL, 1979 

  • God Man Beast Show

• Galerie Licht, Invitational Show - Borupvej, Denmark, 1978

• ASA Gallery, Invitational Show - Albuquerque, NM, 1978

• Santa Fe Gallery of Photography, Invitational Show - Santa Fe, NM, 1977, 1978

• Silver Image Gallery, Invitational Show - Tacoma, WA, 1977

• Infinite Image Gallery, Invitational Show - Milwaukee, WI, 1976

• Gallery f22,lnvitational Show - Santa Fe, NM, 1976

• Friends of Photography - Carmel, CA, 1976

 

Publications​

• All-About-Photo.com - Wide Range Series - Featured Article, 2021

• F-Stop Magazine- Landscape 2021

• F-Stop Magazine- Open Theme 2021

• Fraction Magazine- 13th Anniversary Group Exhibition- Issue 145, 2021

• Black + White Photography Magazine- Featured Artist, 2020

• All-About-Photo.com - Featured as a "Rising Photographer" 2019

• Float Magazine - Featured Portfolio 2019

• A Photo Editor, Jonathan Blaustein review, November 2019

• F-STOP, A Photography Magazine, Issue #91, Portfolio 2018

• Macmillan Biographical Encyclopedia of Photographic Artists & Innovators, ©1983

• Vision, February 1981 - Tokyo, Japan

• Lightyear 1981, MTSU Photographic Gallery - Murfreesboro, TN

• Picture Paper #5, 1979 - Santa Fe, NM

• Village Voice, February 6,1978 - New York, NY

• Artweek, November 19, 1977 Volume 8, Number 39 - San Francisco, CA

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Reviews

• Colorado Photographic Arts Center Review 2021

• Filter Photo Review 2020- Chicago, IL

• Filter Photo Review 2019- Chicago, IL

• PhotoNola 2019- New Orleans, LA

• Filter Photo Review 2018- Chicago, IL

• Review Santa Fe 2017 - Santa Fe, NM

• Filter Photo Review 2017- Chicago, IL

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Education

• San Francisco Art Institute, BFA

• School of the Art Institute of Chicago, MFA

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