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John Griebsch
Log Rafts - Port of Tacoma, WA (Archival Digital Aerial Landscape Photograph)

2005

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Minimalist aerial landscape photograph of golden brown logs in a midnight blue body of water Log Rafts - Port of Tacoma, Washington, USA Archival digital print, Edition of 25 (#080) Image size 21.7 x 29 inches with 2 inch border, made to order Also available in the following sizes: Image size 31 x 39 inches with 2 inch border $3200 Image size 38.5 x 48 inches with 2 inch border $4500 The aerial photographs of pilot and photographer John Griebsch capture natural and man-made landforms from a bird's-eye view and turn them into art. Employing his mature and professional sense of composition, gained from a photography career that began at the age of 12, Griebsch here photographs golden brown logs floating on a dark blue, almost black, body of water. When seen from above, the cross hatching warm brown colored logs resemble an abstract shape that can be likened to an abstract minimalist painting. Artist statement: My aerial photographs present a sense of selective design applied to an extremely small and specific area of the vast landscape over which I fly. I find the need to make geographical sense of the earth, as well as the need to make visual sense of a photograph. I work with ambiguity of scale, the graphic quality of nature and with the hand of man upon the landscape. My images have an abstract and often painterly quality. They are at once factual and interpretive. Familiar landscapes take on a fresh context when airborne. The images require the confluence of several factors. There is the subject – a minuscule segment of the landscape that has captured my interest due to its sense of pattern, order or disarray. There is the essential contribution of light. There is the position and altitude of the airplane, and there is a need to capture the stillness and composition of the moment while moving over the subject at more than seventy miles per hour. My earliest aerial photographs were of ice and farmland, made close to home. The scope of the work opened up on solo flights across the continent in my vintage 1952 Cessna 170B. Those flights are made to find images of landscapes on a grander scale as well as unfamiliar opportunities to find images that take in a small detail. In my most recent work I’ve discovered what might be regarded as historical or documentary themes – some of the images of factories and quarries present relics of the country’s industrial past, while my newer images of the landscape and agriculture denote changes in the scale of farming and open space. The existing body of work, titled Aerias is comprised of more than two hundred images. Collections of my images have been placed in corporate and business settings and in private collections. I started photographing when I was twelve years old. My father taught me to fly when I was fourteen years old. Before taking off on my first solo flight, he admonished me not to go out of sight of the airport. I was soon out of his view and yet from where I was, the airport was always in sight. Such are the perceptions of a photographer who is airborne. More about the artist: Resume John Griebsch is an aerial photographer and pilot whose aerial landscapes depict natural and man-made landforms. His images of the American landscape have been made from his vintage Cessna 170, in which he has logged more than 100,000 miles. At present there are 300 images in his series of work, titled, AERIAS. Representation Iris Gallery, Boston & Great Barrington, Massachusetts, Aspen, Colorado Carrie Haddad Photographs, Hudson, New York The Art Registry, Washington, DC Chicago Art Source, Chicago, Illinois June Bateman Fine Art, New York, New York Estro Photographics, New York, New York Susan Spiritus Gallery, Newport Beach, California Museum Shows & Juried Shows 64th Rochester Finger Lakes Exhibition, Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, New York - 2013 Earth Through a Lens, (Award Winner), Palm Springs California- 2011 62nd Rochester Finger Lakes Exhibition, Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, New York - 2009 59th Rochester Finger Lakes Exhibition, Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, New York - 2003 International Photography Invitational, Fraser Gallery, Washington, DC. 2009 Solo and Two-person Gallery Shows Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, New York. Summer 2013 Iris Gallery, Boston. 2011- 2012 The Gallery at Bausch and Lomb World Headquarters, Rochester, New York. 2006 Lake Placid Center for the Arts, Lake Placid, New York. 2003 The Elizabeth Collection, Rochester, New York. 1995 The Little Theater Gallery, Rochester, New York. 1991 Group Gallery Shows Outside Focus, The Drawing Room Gallery, Cos Cob, Connecticut 2014 Summer Show, Iris Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts. 2010 Snow White, Carrie Haddad Photographs, Hudson, New York. 2010 / 2011 Such Great Heights, Carrie Haddad Photographs, Hudson, New York. 2009 Sounding Out, Chicago Art Source, Chicago, Illinois. 2009 Art Registry, Chase Contemporary, Washington, DC. 2009 High Falls Art Gallery, Rochester, New York. 2000 The Link Gallery, Rochester, New York. 1999 Atrium Gallery, Rochester, New York. 1999 Corporate Collections Bausch and Lomb, New York Boylan Brown Code Vigdor & Wilson LLP, New York Coldwell Banker Corporate Offices, New York Darby & Darby PC, Washington state Digene Corporation, Maryland Energy Networks, New York Gianniny Associates, New York Linklaters US, New York Kapstone Paper, Illinois Konar Properties, New York McArdle Ramerman, New York Paychex, New York Parkside Financial, Missouri DLA Piper Rudnick Cary Gray, LLP, New Jersey Reyes Holdings, Illinois Sherman Hospital, Illinois Strong Health, New York Press Coverage /editorial Adirondack Life Magazine, featured work, December 2015 Adirondack Life Magazine, feature and cover, December / January 2014 Rochester Magazine, featured work, 2014 Lenswork Extended, Featured Interview and Folio, December 2013 City Newspaper, August, 2013 Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, feature article. 2012 SxSE online and print magazine, featured portfolio. 2011 & 2012 Rochester Magazine, feature article. 2009 Lake Effect Magazine, featured work. 2007 Adirondack Life Magazine, feature story and cover. 2004 Mountain Lakes Public Broadcasting, Art Express television show, feature segment. 2004 Adjunct Faculty Aerial Photographic Interpretation. Paul Smiths College. 2005 Introductory Photography, Rochester Institute of Technology. 2007

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