Charles Grogg
Charles Grogg (b. 1966, Gary, Indiana) is an American contemporary artist and photographer. He currently resides in southern California, producing fractured photographic images printed in platinum and palladium on handmade Japanese washi which are restitched into whole images and frequently feature tethers, sutures or other three dimensional productions. The resulting images focus on issues of growth and restraint, hesitation and power.
Grogg's photographic genealogy includes the early Vik Muniz, Robert W. Fichter, and Thomas Barrow, as well as Andy Warhol's sewn multiples. His work has been published in a variety of photograph-focused periodicals including LensWork, B&W, View Camera, Black&White Photography (U.K.), and Silvershotz. He is an Associate Professor of English at Santa Barbara City College (CA), where he has taught since 1998.
"His philosophy is well thought out...he is a bit of a philosopher, a thinker AbOUT photography..."
Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions
- 2010 Charles Grogg: Reconstructions; John Cleary Gallery, Houston, Texas.
- 2010 Charles Grogg: Reconstructions; Joseph Bellows Gallery, La Jolla, California.
- 2010 Lyrical Narratives (with Holly Roberts); Modernbook Gallery, Palo Alto, California.
Collections
- Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
- University Hospitals of Cleveland, OH
- Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO
Publications
- 2009 "Botanicals," View Camera, July/August 2009.
- 2009 "Gifts from the Garden", LensWork 80, Jan/Feb 2009.
- 2009 "Charles Grogg: Botanicals," Silvershotz: The International Journal of Fine Art Photography, Volume 5, EDition 1.