William Lesch has been a working photographic artist for over thirty years. He earned his BFA in photography at the University of Arizona in Tucson, and worked as the first Staff Photographer at the Center for Creative Photography while pursuing his graduate degree at the U of A.
Lesch had his first one-person show in the small front gallery of the newly established Center for Creative Photography in 1979, and since that time his work has been included in over one hundred group and one-person shows, both locally and around the world. His fine-art work is in several museum and corporate collections, including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Tucson Museum of Art, the Snell and Wilmer Collection, the Ryley, Carlock and Applewhite Collection, the Sky Harbor Collection, and the City of Phoenix and City of Tucson, and City of Tempe Collections.
He has won and been nominated for numerous grants and awards, including receiving an Artist Grant from the Arizona Commission on the Arts as well as completing two Artist Project grants for the City of Tempe. His desert color photography was featured in a 60 page monograph printed by Treville Press in conjunction with an exhibit in Japan.
Lesch maintains an active schedule of shows and exhibits, and his work is represented in Arizona by Etherton Gallery in Tucson. He also owns and operates a photography studio in Tucson specializing in architectural, landscape, and commissioned assignment photography.
William Lesch has been a meticulous craftsman ever since his early introduction to the work and printing methods of Frederick Sommer and Emmet Gowin, both of whom he met and who became important to his development as an artist. Lesch’s dedication to fine printmaking has carried through from black and white darkroom work to color darkroom Cibachromes to his involvement with scanning and digital techniques and printmaking.
William’s current work involves long exposure and time-lapse studies in the desert around his home. One series includes five minute to one hour time exposures of thunderstorms building up over the city of Tucson during the summer monsoon season. Another current series deals with time-lapse studies of desert landscapes taken over several days and nights and combined into single multiple-exposure compositions.
A full range of Mr. Lesch’s photographic work can be seen in person at Etherton Gallery or on the gallery website, ethertongallery.com, or on William’s website at williamlesch.com.
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