Artist Statement
I am very much attracted to strongly graphic images and ideas, but I do not want to be tied to one look or process. I try to let the idea drive the appearance of the final image. I will use any tool or process to best create and express the project. If that makes me sound artistically ADD then so be it, but I would rather that than become stagnant and complacent.
William Rugen
Solo Shows
2012:
“New Botanicals”
Core Gallery, Seattle, WA
2011:
“Western Dioramas”.
Core Gallery, Seattle, WA
Group Shows
2012:
-RISD Museum of Art: “Looking at the Land – 21st Century American Views”
Curator: Andy Adams, Flak Photo
-Photo Center Northwest, Seattle: “Equivalents” - 17th Annual Photo Competition
Curator: W. M. Hunt, curator, collector and author
-MonOrchid Gallery, Phoenix, AZ: "The Forty Eighth: Contemporary Photography at Arizona's Centennial."
Curator: William Legoullon and Jason Roehner
2011:
-SAM Gallery, Seattle, WA: “Earth Matters”
Curator, Barbara Shaiman
-Photo Center Northwest, Seattle: “Aground” - 16th Annual Photo Competition
Juror: Karen Irvine, Curator, Museum of Contemporary Photography
-Center For Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO: “Food”
Juror: David Bram, publisher “Fraction Magazine”
2010:
-Photo Center Northwest, Juried Member’s Show, Seattle, WA
Juror: Crista Dix, Owner, Wall Space Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
-Foley Gallery, NYC: “Summer Staged”
Jurors: Thomas Allen- Photographer; David Carmona – Director, Yancey Richardson Gallery; Lisa Hostetler, Curator, Milwaukee Art Museum; Jun Lee, Curator, Ogilvy New York, Denise Wolff, Photo Book Editor, Aperture; Jessica Dimmock, Photographer
-Center For Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO: “New Normal”
Juror: Edward Robinson - Associate Curator of the Wallis Annenberg Photography Department at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
-PhotoSpiva 2010, Spiva Center for the Art, Joplin, MO
Juror: Deborah Klochko, Director, Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA
2009:
-Photo Center Northwest, Juried Member’s Show, Seattle, WA
Juror: Eric Fredericksen, Director, Western Bridge, Seattle, WA
Publications
2012:
Problemata Physica
2011:
Super Interessante (Brazil)
Fraction Magazine (online)
Photographs on the Brain (LPV Project)
Aubade Magazine
2010:
American Photography Photo Annual: AP26
Photo Center NW, Volume 4
Tell Mum Everything Is Okay
F-Stop Magazine (online)
Truth Magazine #3
Truth Magazine #4
Online Features
Flak Photo
Feature Shoot
La Pura Vida Gallery
Rachel Hulin- A Photography Blog
Inside the Photography Post
The Great Leap Sideways
Traingletriangle
Urbanautica
SHFT
ShareMag.net
New Landscape Photography
The Photography Showcase
Photo Weekly Online
Zitrone Magazine
Problemata physica
Edit By Edit
The Photo Coterie
Design You Trust
Photo Donuts
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