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John Drooyan

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Favorite Medium: art photography
Statement: My interest in photography as an art form derives from photography's unique capability to simultaneously address the real and the fictitious, and its potential to be a visual literature. My early photographic influences included Clarence John Laughlin, Man Ray and Bill Brandt-and reflect my interest in surrealism. In 1983 I received a commission to create a set of photographs for chapter opening art in a series of mathematical textbooks. Drawing on the work of two contemporary artists, Robert Irwin and John Pfal, I conceived a plan to design and build lightweight sculpture based on mathematical concepts, which were photographed in Death Valley.The Desert Targets project gave rise to a continuing investigation of combining sculpture with photography in my artwork. A series of landscape photographs, Manscapes, followed which interpret man-made structures as found sculptureFollowing completion of the Manscapes serious, I enrolled in the graduate photography program at the San Francisco Art Institute where I pursued physical integration of photography and sculpture.My work is continuously evolving and my most recent work, a series of photographs taken in Bologna, Italy, represents a merger between my fine arts and commercial photography.
Bibliography: 1993 Art of California Magazine 2000 Contemporary Art (Soho Fine Arts Institute, New York, New York) 2000-2001 Dizionario Enciclopedico Internazione DÂ’Arte Moderna Contemporanea (Casa Editrice ""AlbaÂ”), Ferrara, Italy)
Birth Year: 1952

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Los Angeles, California
United States
jdvisart@yahoo.com
Phone: (310) 477-1198
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Awards: 1992 Gold Award for Mixed-media Art Art of California Magazine Discovery Awards Competition 1998 Second-place New Media Category Photo District News self pro awards 1998 International Capi Awards Photography Special Effects (Studio City, California) 1999 The People's Choice Award Contemporary Art Competition-Soho Fine Arts Institute, New York, New York 2003 International Photography Awards Advertising Photography Website category (competition judging in Los Angeles, California)

Education

Degree: MFA
Institution: San Francisco Art Institute
Grad Year: 1988

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