ABOUT
Each creative act starts out with the empty canvas, the blank page, tabula rasa. To start a new piece is an act of faith. This, for me, is the brilliance, the outrageousness of being an artist. It’s like starting out on a hike with no clear destination, only an idea of where you might end up.

In my latest work, photography, I expand upon my earlier investigation into the relationship between perception and reality. I am interested in how photography ‘fools’ us and at the same time provides such rich surfaces whose detail and character is denied by our own obsession with
what we see.

By way of background, I studied Art History and Art Studio at Seton Hall University, where I graduated with a BA. I followed this up with a year of graduate studies in Art History at Rutgers University. I have exhibited extensively throughout the tri-state area since the mid 1980s. My work has been included in the NJ Arts Annual at the State
Museum in Trenton and the Center for Visual Arts in Summit.

Reviews of my work have been featured in the New York Times, The Star Ledger, The Courier News and various other local publications. In addition, I have been a curator for a wide variety of shows at the Watchung Arts Center and was a director of the Tweed Center for the Arts. Currently I reside in Plainfield, NJ.

I have spent portions of two winters in residency at the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, VT. Most recently my work has been exhibited at the Barron Arts Center in Woodbridge, the Monroe Center for Visual Arts in Hoboken and the Palmer Museum in Springfield, NJ. I have upcoming exhibtions at the Watchung Arts Center.

Paul Pinkman
August 2007