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He is an Associate Professor of English at Santa Barbara City College (California), where he has taught since 1998 and on the Master of Fine Arts faculty at Brooks Institute.
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Charles Grogg
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He currently resides in southern California, producing fractured photographic images printed in platinum and palladium on handmade Japanese washi which are restitched into whole images and frequently feature tethers, sutures or other three dimensional productions. The resulting images focus on issues of growth and restraint, hesitation and power. Grogg"s photographic genealogy includes the early Vik Muniz, Robert West. Fichter, and Thomas Barrow, as well as Andy Warhol"s sewn multiples.
His work has been published in a variety of photograph-focused periodicals including LensWork, B&West, View Camera, Black&White Photography (United Kingdom), and Silvershotz.
In 2010, Grogg was selected by John Wood for the Clarence John Laughlin Award, which is given to a photographer “whose work exhibits sustained artistic excellence and creative vision.” At the time, Wood was the editor for 21st Editions, a letterpress publisher of limited edition portfolios in photography featuring artists such as Michael Kenna, Jerry Uelsmann, Joel-Peter Witkin, and Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison. Since that time, Grogg’s work has evolved toward digitally processed imagery and imagery resulting from the intermediary use of digital technology due to his self-professed artistic interest in the presence of the photographic surface.
"His philosophy is well thought out..he is a bit of a philosopher, a thinker about photography.." 2015 Vis-a-Vis: Anthony Philip Fine Art, New York, New York 2014 Crema: 2013 Reconstructions. Etherton Gallery, Tucson, Arizona 2012 Reconstructions.
Galerie BMG, Woodstock, New York 2011 After Ascension and Descent.
Corden|Potts Gallery, San Francisco, California 2010 After Ascension and Descent. Wallspace Gallery, Santa Barbara, California 2010 Charles Grogg: Reconstructions. John Cleary Gallery, Houston, Texas.
2010 Charles Grogg: Reconstructions.
Joseph Bellows Gallery, Louisiana Jolla, California. 2010 Lyrical Narratives (with Holly Roberts).
Modernbook Gallery, Palo Alto, California. Claremont Colleges Special, Claremont, California.
