Photography

Contact Information

23 Norwood Avenue
Kensington, CA 94707
tel: 215-901-1573
e-mail:
www.agrons.com
Please contact artist for purchases, commissions, etc.

Artist Statement

The uneasy coexistence between human populations and the natural world interests me as a photographer. I lived for many years in coastal southern New Jersey, where I was drawn aesthetically to the ordered pilings, decaying buildings and piers, dune fences, structural debris, and kitsch of my seaside town. Deeply influenced by Michael Kenna’s work, I came to favor long exposures in low light as I examined the interaction between wind, waves, salt, and the human footprint. I recently relocated to the San Francisco Bay area, where I look forward to exploring my new environment. I am particularly intrigued by the ambiguous quality of everyday objects encountered at the water’s edge between twilight and dawn, and the tension between the elements and human expectations of permanence and control. I have come to think of the images as “melancholigraphs”.

Personal

Born 1954 in Philadelphia, PA
Currently lives in Kensington, CA

1974 – 1978
Richard Stockton State College, Pomona, NJ

1982 -1986
University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey, NJ Medical School, Newark, NJ

Awards and Honors

2010
Best in Show, A Celebration of Art and Life, Perlman Center for Advanced Medicine and The Regional Community Arts Program for The Center of Emerging Visual Artists, Philadelphia, PA
Signature Artist Membership, The Noyes Museum of Art, Oceanville, NJ

2009
Visitor’s Choice Award, Mind’s Eye Exhibition, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO

Finalist Award of Excellence, 29th Annual Spring Photography Contest, Photographer’s Forum Magazine

Honorable Mention, Fine Art Category, Worldwide Photograph Gala Awards 2009

Runner up, Travel and Places Category, Popular Photography 15th Annual Readers’ Photo Contest

Publications

2010
The New Twenties, A Collaborative book from IdN Magazine and Society 6

2009
“Best of Photography 2009″ Photographer’s Forum Magazine Annual

Selected Exhibitions

2011
Food, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO
Juror: David Bram

Stormy Weather, PhotoPlace Gallery, The Vermont Photography Workplace, Middlebury, VT
Juror: Gary Hart

International Juried Exhibition of Works on Paper 2011, 12 12 Gallery, Richmond, VA
Juror: Dan Welden

Center Forward, Denver International Airport presented by the Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO

Black and White, PhotoPlace Gallery, The Vermont Photography Workplace, Middlebury, VT
Juror: Dan Burkholder

Onward ’11, Project Basho, Philadelphia, PA and Ricoh Ring Cube Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Juror: Larry Fink, juror

2010 – 2012
A Celebration of Art and Life, Perlman Center for Advanced Medicine and
The Regional Community Arts Program for The Center of Emerging Visual Artists,
Philadelphia, PA

2010
The Natural World, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO
Juror: Susan Spiritus

Direct Objects: Still Life as Subject, PhotoPlace Gallery, The Vermont Photography Workplace, Middlebury, VT
Juror: Wendy Grossman

Wide Awake Dreaming, PhotoPlace Gallery, The Vermont Photography Workplace,
Middlebury, VT
Juror: Russell Joslin

After Dark, Vermont Photo Space Gallery, Essex Junction, VT
Juror: Tom Paiva

Signature Artists Exhibition, The Noyes Museum of Art, Oceanville, NJ

A Bayshore View, Sluice Creek Gallery, New Jersey Audubon Cape May Bird Observatory,
Goshen, NJ

Managed Landscapes, Vermont Photo Space Gallery, Essex Junction, VT
Juror: Thomas Bachand

Flight, PhotoPlace Gallery, The Vermont Photography Workplace, Middlebury, VT
Juror: David Bram

Friends of Project Basho 2010, Project Basho Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Photoplace Open, PhotoPlace Gallery, The Vermont Photography Workplace, Middlebury, VT
Juror: Keith Carter

Nostalgia, PhotoPlace Gallery, The Vermont Photography Workplace, Middlebury, VT
Juror: Larissa Leclair

Society for Photographic Education Show, Silicon Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Curators: Kaitlin Suzann Mosley and Katie Tackman

Elements of Water, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO
Juror: John Paul Caponigro

Animal Magnetism, PhotoPlace Gallery, The Vermont Photography Workplace, Middlebury, VT
Juror: John Willis

2009 – 2010
Art in Nature Exhibition, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO
Juror: Kathy Moran

2009
Black and White Exhibition, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO
Juror: Jim Casper

Works of Man Exhibition, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO
Juror: Chris Jordan

Mind’s Eye Exhibition, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO
Juror: Christopher Rauschenberg

2008
Toledo Friends of Photography National Juried Photographic Exhibition, Center for the Visual Arts Gallery, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH
Juror: Todd Hido