Hello,

During 8 years in The Florida State University Bachelor of Fine Arts program 1986 - 94,  I studied in the Studio Art department under great artists such as George Blakely, Robert Fichter, Ed Love, Mark Messersmith and Mary Jo Toles. Other workshops included Jerry Ullesmann, Donna Ferrato, James Nachtwey, Sebastiao Salgado, Gordon Parks, Arnold Newman , etc...

Gallery Exhibits:

A.E. Backus Gallery, Fort Pierce, FL

Thomasville, GA Community Arts Center

Gallery on the Circle, Maryland Federation of Art

Faces & Facets - Visual Arts Center of Northwest Florida, Panama City

Pasco Art Council Gallery

621 Gallery, Tallahassee, FL

Tallahassee, FL City Hall Gallery

Hunter Museum of American Art

Florida State University Fine Arts Gallery, Tallahassee, FL

While my inspiration to take up photography was my grandfather William Nurenburg, a magnificent unknown street photographer,  I identify closely with the artists of the De Stijl movement of the 1920's. I search for a way to express the view I hold that 'everything is perfect'.

While most people find flaws in all that surround them, I see only perfection. The coke can with a dent in it becomes the 'perfectly dented' coke can in my eyes. (props due to Rice Black) Each thing is the perfect representation of itself and any attempt to duplicate that natural perfection fails but instead creates another, separate individual perfection.

My documentary photographs attempt to take a slice out of those perfect moments in life, and while they can never truly duplicate the experience, I believe they can serve as little portals through time in which the viewer can catch a glimpse of those little perfections.

These philosophies have drop-kicked my artwork into the neo-plastic, deconstruction, abstract-real style where each line, shadow or space is perfectly what it is but can not exist as an individual.   Its perfection is defined only by its relation to other elements. Therefore, as in life, the relationships between individuals become their defining aspects. For example: A black line can not be defined as a black line unless it is in relation to the surface that surrounds it. 

While my work may naturally evoke thoughts, feelings or images, they are created as perfect individual elements interacting with other perfect individual elements which together, in their duality, perfectly express (hopefully) my individuality. 

If you have reached this point, I thank you for your interest. Please feel free to e-mail me with comments or questions.

- Lance Aram Rothstein