Stephanie Kluk Photography
 

2004

New Direction ’04, 20th Annual National Contemporary Art Exhibition, Barrett Art Center, Juror Tina Kukielski, a Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City, Poughkeepsie, NY. Remembrances of Things Past, South Shore Art Center,  Juror Todd Mckie, Cohasset, MA. 10th Annual Juried Photography Competition, Texas Artists’ Museum, Port Arthur, TX. Works On Paper, Christopher Art Gallery, Prairie State College, Chicago Heights, IL. The Chicago Art Open, The National Vietnam Veterans Art Museum, Chicago, IL. A Sense of Place, The Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art, Juror Charles Reeve, Augusta, GA. Animal Images, Anti-Cruelty Society, Juror Ed Pashke, Chicago, IL. Fabrications, Woman Made Gallery, Juror Janet Bloch, Chicago, IL. Small Works, Harper College, Palatine, IL. Juror Lynne Warren, Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL.  Figuratively Speaking, Fulton Street Gallery, Juror David FeBland Troy, NY.

Gallery Affiliation

2005	FlatFile Galleries, Contemporary Art and Photography, Chicago, IL.

Awards and Publications

2004	Direct Art Magazine, October, Vol. 10.
	Photography: A Moment In Time, Margaret O’Brien Memorial Prize, St. Louis Artists’ Guild, St. Louis, MO.
	Award of Merit, Manhattan Arts International, HerStory Exhibition, New York, NY.

Education

Artist Statement

            When I wake from a dream a certain feeling surrounds me. It is only after a few moments however that I actually remember what the dream was about or what it looked like. My images are those moments when I first remember and the colors and shapes form.

            All my images are shot with a 35mm SLR camera. No image is digitally altered. I combine a slow shutter with a low speed film. Before 2004 my photographs concentrated only on people. I then progressed to people and how they fit in their surroundings. I noticed I kept compositionally pushing the figure farther and farther to the edges of the image. From that I branched off and began experimenting with the colors and shapes of nature, eliminating the figure altogether.  I found I could capture a certain space that would then create its own feeling.

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