Driftwood On Cranberry Lake

Sunset On Cranberry Lake 10

Sunset On Cranberry Lake 3

Sunset On Cranberry Lake 1

Education:
Bachelor of Fine Arts, May 2007 Medieval and Renaissance Studies Minor
NYSCC School of Art and Design at Alfred University in Alfred, NY

Awards, Grants, & Exhibitions:
“Figurines Magazine,” slides of figurines published Issue 79, December, 2007
“Revolver,” Group show at Revolution Studios Syracuse, NY October 20, 2007
“On the Record,” Group show at Kathleen Cullen Gallery in Chelsea, NYC June-July 2007
“NYSSC Juried Student Show,” at Wellsville Creative Art Center in Wellsville, NY December 2006 – February 2007
Inter-campus Art Program, Art displayed throughout the Alfred University campus, Alfred, NY Spring and Fall 2006 and Spring 2007
“Altered States,” Group show in Turner Student Gallery, Alfred, NY Spring 2006
“Beauty, Courage, Confidence, and Strength,” Group show at Women’s Leadership Center, Alfred, NY (auction to raise money for a battered women’s shelter) February 2006
“I Like Art…,” Two person show in Turner Student Gallery, Alfred, NY Fall 2005
ARGUS, Research and photography project; Grant from Alfred University, Alfred, NY Summer 2005
Annual State of New York Colleges Spring Art Show 2005, SUNY, Albany, NY

Dustin is an artist with experience in fine art, portraiture, wedding, nature, fashion, sculpture, and documentary photography. He develops and prints in black & white, color, and digital forms. 4”x 5” large format, 2” ¼ medium format, 35mm, digital, and pinhole cameras are utilized. Experience in studio, natural, incandescent, and strobe lighting.

Mari

Lauren 10

Kozue

Julliane

Pieces of Her

"This series formed as I researched the symbolic statements encoded within figural representation and focused on young women’s relationships with body and image. Portraiture allows me to study and share experiences with the women I encounter. I present what I find beautiful or important about them and express my own views on human nature. To make the series I standardized their representation, repeating not just technique, but choices over personal ornamentation and expression. By removing some of each model’s normal control over her appearance I have selectively altered layers of voluntary cultural masking, effectively deconstructing their normal personas. These controls reconstruct identity, but are limited by the materials and objects each model brings to the studio as well as her unique form and character. These women are being presented as “Pieces of Her,” and so personify parts of female identity in order to broaden an understanding of women and appearance. Their portraits are photographic, but are also symbolic texts in which the model is depicted as an individual, a “contemporary woman,” and a reflection of my self." Dustin Angell