Photographer: Mark Dolce

Genre
:: Abstract

I was raised overseas and have been coming to Cody, Wyoming all my life. My 
work now hangs in Open Range Images Fine Art Photography coop as of April 
2007. My Bachelor Fine Art Photography was awarded in 1983 from Arizona 
State University. I attained my Master Art in Journalism form the University of 
Arizona in 1992. I have been making fine art photographic images since 1977. 
Most of my professional career was in Arizona working for community 
newspapers. I have exhibited my work in several galleries, institutions and 
public venues.

My work is in a contemporary vein and influenced by the life I have spent in 
open spaces of the western United States. I have chosen to interject, 
assemble, rearrange and combine ideas using images to raise questions 
through an exchange of personal experience and introspection regarding 
societal values. I sometimes pick up random objects and hold them to be 
photographed. I sometimes make photographs with post card images of an 
iconic nature held in my hand while standing in a specific location - making 
room for association. I made a specific arrangement of objects and 
photographed as in the Ambient Series- a biographical body of work based on 
my spiritual connection to the desert. These exercises reveal and propose new 
meaning of life on a level of absurdity making sense only to ones who can see 
the value in things less widely circulated.

More of my work can be viewed on www.absolutearts.com/portfolios/k/
krameclod, www.jpgmag.com and www.wish-stock.com.

HONORS/EXHIBITS/PUBLICATIONS/

In 2006, two 30 x 40 box mounted laminated prints, A Nice Place, and 
Ambient Series #4,  an invitational exhibit located at the Broadway Gallery, 
473 Broadway, 7th Floor, New York, New York.

North Dakota Council on the Arts Gant Guidelines cover shot, 2003
 
One black and white image, Arrows, published in The Sun, an international 
publication, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 2004

Honorable mention for one black and white 8 x 12 print Indian Cuisine, 
Enisen Publishing, Glendale, California, 2002 

Community College Certificate awarded by the Community Colleges of Arizona 
to teach photojournalism at the community college level, 1997

First Place Photography, one 8 x 12 Street Walk, Prescott Fine Art 
Association, 1995

Attended Bishop Photographic workshop with Jay Dusard, Huntington 
Wetherhill and Bruce Barnbaum in Bishop, California April 1994

One image, Valley of the Gods, published in New York Times travel section, 
12/11/94