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Biography
John Gardner was born on the Iowa-Nebraska border in the USA. As a boy his father gave him a camera and taught him to how to work its buttons and dials. Beyond that basic instruction he is self-taught, and began to consider photography seriously in 1985 after a trip to London. His publications are few, and in fairly obscure magazines. Until recently he had not exhibited his work publicly. He left photography almost entirely for over a decade while earning a doctorate in medieval literature.
Currently he is at work on three projects:
- Look What I See — The melancholy beauty of our daily surroundings.
- New Strangers — A continuation of the work begun twenty years ago depicting pedestrians in the American city.
- Before I Knew I'd Miss You — Toward a personal and universal nostalgia.
Publications
Shots #40, 1993
KC Pitch, 26 August 1992
Rant-Rapture #1, 1989
Exhibitions
2008: Dec 5 - Jan 24, 2009, Look What I See — Halcyon Contemporary Art, Terre Haute, Indiana (USA)
2007: Oct 12 - Dec 29, Some Where: Recent Photographs by John Gardner — Swope Art Museum, Terre Haute, Indiana (USA) Held over until March 15, 2008.
2006: 1st Annual Juried Group Show — Halcyon Contemporary Art, Terre Haute, Indiana (USA)
2005: Strangers — Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Gallery, Terre Haute, Indiana (USA)
Permanent Collections
Swope Art Museum, Terre Haute, Indiana (USA)
Contact
info (at) prexa (dot) com
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