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Biography
Michael Trupiano is a photographer and print maker living and working in central Italy. Like many, he became hooked on photography after meeting Ansel Adams and seeing a retrospective of his work in San Francisco in 1980; he spent the next twenty plus years trying to figure out why his images did not look like Adams'. At the same time he made a successful career in Silicon Valley. He continues to combine his love of art and science in the pursuit of his art.
About the Work
As his art evolved from purely representational to more thematic work he began exploring in-camera movements, multiple and long exposures, pin-hole, zone-plate, and photo-montage; basically any tool available to realize his vision. Michael is interested in how light, both manmade, sunlight, and moonlight -- individually or in combination -- change the nature of the object being photographed. He is also interested in how our memory of a place effects our feelings about his images. As a result his images evoke a feeling of both something known and something unfamiliar. More and more the objects are reduced to not what they are but how they affect the light around them. And as a result how we perceive the world around us.
The work is not complete until a master print is created. While viewing images on line represent that overwhelming majority of how images are consumed today Michael feels strongly in the physical print: through a book, a boxed portfolio, or framed on a wall. In order to complete the work, started in camera through post-production, Michael now works in platinum / palladium, gum / cyanotype over platinum / palladium, polymer gravure (with mixed media), and pigment ink printing.
Michael is also a member of Photo Pensato, a collective of photographers with varied styles and techniques, inspired to create images that reflect our unique and person perspectives.
Group Exhibitions
2022, selected Palladium and gum over Palladium prints, Photo Pensato group exhibition, Sangre de Cristo Arts Center, Pueblo, Colorado
2021, selected Palladium and gum over Palladium prints, Photo Pensato group exhibition, Colorado Mountain College, Edwards Campus, Colorado
2020, “the imperfect lens”, A Smith Gallery, Johnson City, Texas; Michael Kirchoff juror
2019, “Light Sensitive”, Art Intersection Gallery, Gilbert, Arizona; Christopher James juror
2016, "Manus et Pedibus", Darkroom Gallery, Essex Junction, Vermont; Tim Booth juror
2015, "Center Forward 2015", The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, Colorado; Hamidah Glasgow juror
2015, "Black and White", The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, Colorado; Roy L. Flukinger juror
2014, "Light Sensitive", Art Intersection Gallery, Gilbert, Arizona; Tom Persinger juror
2014, "Black and White", New Mexico Art League, Albuquerque, New Mexico
2013, "Luminous Light: Radiant and Sublime", Black Box Gallery, Portland, Oregon; Tom Johnson juror
2013, "Light Sensitive", Art Intersection Gallery, Gilbert, Arizona; Katherine Ware juror
2013, "Snow and Ice", 1650 Gallery, Los Angeles, California
2009, "The Sweet Hereafter", The Rift Gallery, Rinconada, New Mexico
2008, "Darkness, Darkness", Three Columns Gallery, Harvard University Campus, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Publications
2016, Lemniscate of Diffusion, Volume VIII, 2016; edited by Blue Mitchell; published by one twelve publishing