Chuck studied photography at Parsons School of Design, International Center for Photography and Cuyahoga Community College in Cleveland.

He has degrees in Electrical Engineering and has also studied Japanese.

He is a director of the Intermuseum Conservation Association (ICA).

Chuck is an avid cyclist to help offset the fact that he is an avid eater.

 

Statement

The work explores the boundaries between the natural and the artificial. The affects of man and the passing of time on both the natural landscape and the constructed world of buildings, roads and industry. The boundary between static and dynamic is stretched by including "accidents" in a formal framework.   

 

"Like the burlesk comedian, I am abnormally fond of that precision which creates movement" -- e e cummings

 

 

"Boundaries" include technical/human, new-old, art-science, serene-foreboding, developed-natural and, of course, land, coastline and shoreline and water.  In addition, they reflect the theme of how he sees people as one more "natural" force on the environment.   The perspective is fatalistic - more comic than tragic - an acceptance of the inevitable.

The portraiture shows the photographer and the subject(s) attempts to modify the image to realize their ideas of what the portraits might be. Many of the portraits are on Polaroid materials that allow the subject to participate. 

The Album Project is a joint project with his son, Isaac. Isaac has autism. When he was 15 he needed surgery for curvature of the spine. In order to help him cope, he received a Polaroid Spectra for his birthday. His photography and albums now document not just his surgery, but his life.

Because of Chuck's interest in conservation and preservation, he makes an effort to produce and prepare his work consistent with the desire for it to last.

Gallery

Chuck is represented by:

1point618 Gallery
Sixty.Four.Twenty.One Detroit Avenue
Cleveland, OH 44102
www.1point618gallery.com
1point618 Gallery
216.281.1618

2010 Exhibitions and Shows

New Orleans Photo Alliance
"4x5"
Four images by each of five photographers - juried
New Orleans, LA April/May

Spiva Center for the Arts
"Photospiva 2010"
Juried Show
Joplin, MO March-April

23 Sandy Gallery
"New Directions"
Juried Show - Merit Award
Portland, OR February

Wall Space Gallery
"New Directions"
Juried Show - Merit Award
Seattle, WA January

2009 Exhibitions and Shows

Silver Eye Center for Photography
"Self Portrait:Silver Eye at 30"
Group Show
Pittsburgh, PA July-September

1point618 Gallery
"The Album Project"
Solo Show
Cleveland, OH June-August

APW Gallery
"A Postcard is Worth 1000 words"
Group show featuring ten "postcards" from my 10000 Tinkles series
Long Island City, NY June

Artist's Archive of the Western Reserve
Member's Show
Cleveland, OH May

Erie Art Museum
85th Annual Spring Show
Erie, PA April-June

Silver Eye Center for Photography
New works Gallery Online
Online from Pittsburgh, PA
Silver Eye Center - New Works Galley Online
April-June

Irevelar
Courageous New Art Revealed
Online from Atlanta, GA
Irevelar
March and ongoing

FAVA Gallery
Six State Photography Show
Juror's Award
Oberlin, OH April

2008 Exhibitions and Shows

No Copper: Artists Address the Foreclosure Crisis
Cleveland Public Art

Cleveland, OH October-November

IRevelar, "The Revealing" Exhibition
Naomi Silva Gallery

Atlanta, GA October-December

Foto8 Summer Show
FOTO8

HOST Gallery
London, England August

Butler Art Center
Solo show in Mezzanine Gallery
Butler, PA August

Erie Art Museum
85th Annual Spring Show
Erie, PA April-June

Artist's Archive of the Western Reserve
Member's Show
Cleveland, OH June

FAVA Gallery
Six State Photography Show
Oberlin, OH April