Kerik Kouklis
American, b. 1960
Kerik Kouklis is a fine art photographer, filmmaker, and educator who specializes in creating handmade photographs and documentary films. Born and raised in California with a background in music and a 30-year career as an environmental geologist under his belt, Kerik combines a contemporary eye with 19th-century processes to produce work that is uniquely his own. Influenced by the pictorialists of the early 20th century, he makes images that can be at once calm and unsettling. Working in a variety of formats from small digital cameras up to large view cameras, Kerik uses both film and digital negatives to create his prints. He is known as a skilled practitioner and teacher of the platinum/palladium process and the combined gum-platinum process. He has used these processes to create his work since 1990 and has been teaching workshops in these processes since 1997, both in his home studio and at various locations around the US, Canada, and the UK. In 2004 Kerik began working with the wet plate collodion process which brought a new series of portraits and still-life images into his portfolio. These images are one-of-a-kind, made in-camera on aluminum or glass. Kerik has also dabbled making daguerreotypes and plans to continue pursuing this earliest and perhaps most difficult of the photographic processes. Kerik’s work is currently represented in California by Oficino Uno in Carmel, CA, and the Ansel Adams Gallery in Yosemite where he has been teaching hand-made photographic techniques since 2000. His prints are held in private and corporate collections in North America and Europe as well as the Museum of Fine Art, Houston and the Hoyt Institute of Fine Arts, Newcastle, Pennsylvania. Kerik is also a fledgling glass-blower, another medium he plans to pursue.(Biography provided by Oficino Uno Fine Photography Dealer)
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Redwood Trees In Fog, California
Located in Carmel, CA
Hand printed by artist
In edition of 15
Platinum/Palladium (no pull down for it)
Mint Condition
Framing available
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Kerik Kouklis
Materials
Platinum
Tunnel View 2, Yosemite
Located in Carmel, CA
Hand printed by artist
Print Date 2016
Edition 1/15
Gum Platinum/Pallidum Print (no pull down for that!)
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Kerik Kouklis
Materials
Platinum
Tunnel View 2, Yosemite National Park California
Located in Carmel, CA
Hand printed Palladium photograph (no pull down for that)
Edition 1/15
Corner Mounted
Over matted
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Kerik Kouklis
Materials
Platinum
Redwoods In Fog, California
Located in Carmel, CA
Pigment Print
Print Date 2013
Hand printed by artist
Edition 1/15
Outer dimensions 16x22" Corner Mounted
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Kerik Kouklis
Materials
Digital Pigment
Tower Bridge In Fog, Sacramento California
Located in Carmel, CA
Platinum/Palladium (there was no pull down for this)
Print Date 1996
Hand printed by artist
Edition 5/25
Outer dimensions 15x25" Corner Mounted
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Kerik Kouklis
Materials
Platinum
Tunnel View, Yosemite National Park California
Located in Carmel, CA
Platinum/Palladium (there was no pull down for this)
Print Date 2013
Hand printed by artist
Edition 1/15
Outer dimensions 16x22" Corner Mounted
Larger size
17x27"
Category
2010s Realist Kerik Kouklis
Materials
Platinum
Bridalveil Falls, Pacific House California Waterfall
Located in Carmel, CA
Actually Palladium photograph - no pull down for it!
Hand printed by artist
Corner mounted
Out dimensions 15x25"
Edition 14/25
Larger Size 20x36" Edition 2/15 Printed 2014
Category
2010s Kerik Kouklis
Materials
Platinum
Trees Near Gualala California - Trees In Fog
Located in Carmel, CA
Platinum/Palladium (there was no pull down for this)
Print Date 2014
Hand printed by artist
Edition 1/15
Corner Mounted
Outer Dimensions
28x32"
Category
2010s Kerik Kouklis
Materials
Platinum
El Capitan, Yosemite National Park California
Located in Carmel, CA
This is a Palladium photograph not a Platinum but there is no drop down for the palladium...
Mint Condition From Artist
Hand Printed
Edition 2/15
Outer dimensions 26.5 x34
Corner Mou...
Category
2010s Kerik Kouklis
Materials
Platinum
Sally, Gum over Bromide Platinum Nude Girl in Barn
Located in Carmel, CA
Hand printed photograph.
Gum over platinum from an original colladian photograph by a master printer.
Sorry frame is not available but can be purchased for an additional fee.
Category
Early 2000s Kerik Kouklis
Materials
Platinum
Trees, Fog & Sun Cross Village Michigan
Located in Carmel, CA
A stunning photograph of light. Hand printed by the artist.
Edition 3/15
Gum Bichromate over Platinum / Palladium
Category
Early 2000s Kerik Kouklis
Materials
Platinum
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