Artist+Photographer
Born 1969, Kaunas, Lithuania.
His varied spectrum of personal work and commercial assignments consist of pinhole (camera obscura), landscape, conceptual and architectural imagery. He masterfully explores seams between photography and fine art, dark and light, literal and abstract, known and unknown, conscious and subconscious.
Darius works spontaneously, using his intuition to create something visually stimulating and exciting; something, perhaps, that has never been captured before in such a way. And yet, each piece maintains its own unique life and visual cohesiveness. He often uses the camera obscura (pinhole camera), and he is interested in basic, elementary occupation with the medium itself, researching and exploiting all the opportunities it offers. The actual photographic subject or motive remains in the realm of intimation and open to opposing interpretations.
His photographs are more than a mere record of place, location or object. Each piece provides ample reflection of the artists’ unique perspective, his focus on aesthetics, and his profound technical proficiency.
Memberships: ASMP, IAAP & AIAP
Gallery representation Luis de Jesus Seminal Projects
www.seminalprojects.com
Exhibitions
Selected Exhibitions:
– “Camera Obscura: Outside In(n) + Ocean Pinholes: Sunset”, Stumptown Coffee Roasters, Portland, Oregon.
– “Camera Obscura: Savanoriai”, Art Space at K.Donelaicio st. 60 & M.Zilinsko Art Gallery, Kaunas, Lithuania.
– “Camera Obscura: Modern Primitivism”, Vilnius Photography Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania.
– “After Glow”, Luis de Jesus Seminal Projects, San Diego, California.
– Pinhole Photography, Image Gallery, CSN, Las Vegas, Nevada.
– “Ocean Pinholes”, Susan Street Fine Art Gallery, Solana Beach / San Diego, California.
– Pinhole Photography, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, Nevada.
– “Camera Obscura: Modern Primitivism”, West Charleston Library, Las Vegas, Nevada.
– “Camera Obscura: Modern Primitivism”, Kimball Art Center, Park City, Utah.
– “Polaroids”, Enterprise Library, Las Vegas, Nevada.
– “Pinhole”, Winchester Center Gallery, Las Vegas, Nevada.
Selected Group Exhibitions:
– “Exploring Photographic Alternatives” (Darius Kuzmickas, Diane Bush & Holly Roberts), UNLV Marjorie Barrick Museum.
– “Concrete & Sparkle: Influences of Las Vegas Signs and Architecture”, Historic Fifth Street School, Las Vegas, Nevada.
– “Pinhole Photography”, RayKo Photo Center, San Francisco, California.
– “Plastic Fantastic”, LightBox Photographic Gallery, Astoria, Oregon.
– “LT Pinhole Photography”, A. Moncys Museum, Palanga, Lithuania.
– “Kaunas Photo 2009 RECYCLED”, Kaunas Photo’09, Kaunas, Lithuania.
– “Mysteries, Secrets, Illusions”, Kaunas Photo’07, Kaunas Art Gallery, Kaunas, Lithuania.
– “Fulmer & Kuzmickas: Paintings, Sculpture & Photography”, Reed Whipple Cultural Center Gallery, Las Vegas, Nevada.
– “Pinhole Tribe”, Klaipeda Cultural Communication Center, Klaipeda, Lithuania.
– 2e Festival International de la Photo de Mer, 2006, Vannes, France.
– 2005 Nevada Triennial, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, Nevada.
– “Snap” and other exhibits at CAC Gallery, Las Vegas, Nevada.
– “IZ IT Photography 4”, Calumet Gallery, San Francisco, California.
– “About Prints and Photography”, Galeria d’Art Zero, Barcelona, Spain.
– Visual Edge 2002 “Photography’s Full Circle: The Pinhole Perspective”, Viewpoint Gallery, Sacramento, California.
Books
“Ocean Pinholes”
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Published in conjunction with the exhibition at Susan Street Fine Art Gallery, Solana Beach, CA. Essay by Kellie Schillaci; preface by Luis De Jesus.
KuDa Editions, 2006
“Camera Obscura: Modern Primitivism”>Camera Obscura: Modern Primitivism”
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Published in conjunction with the exhibition at the Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV.
KuDa Editions, 2005
Books available from photoeye.com, amazon.com, bn.co, kudaeditions.com and other fine booksellers
Blogs
Day by Day… Latest gallery exhibitions and other related news updates
http://kudaphoto.blogspot.com