1980 Trotter artist statement

Title: 1980 Trotter artist statement
LC Subject: Art--Documentation Art--Exhibitions Biography
Creator: Trotter, Claire
Description: 1 p. Claire Trotter's 1980 artist statement. Claire Trotter is a native of the Pacific Northwest and livesin Eugene, Oregon. She acquired her basic skills in photography while apprenticed to a commercial photographer in Chicago. Her photographs are a kind of visual haiku. In a simple statement these pictures can suggest realities beond ordinary perception. Her subject is usually nature, celebrating natural light and shadow on rocks, reeds, sand, driftwood, ice, leaves, things we usually pass without seeing. She Works mainly in black and white, using Linhof, Leica and Alpa cameras, and is intensely involved in the entire photographic process from compostion through printing. Her work has been exhibited in museums and galleries in the United States and Europe, has been published in hournals devoted to the arts, and is represented in both public and private collections. (attributed to Alan G. Artner, Chicago Tribune, date unknown--from materials in project binder) The Oregon Arts Commission has ten Regional Arts Councils that provide delivery of art services and information. The Council for this location is: Mid-Valley Arts. You may view their website at: http://www.oregonlink.com/arts/index.html
Location: Oregon Department of Human Services >> Marion County >> Oregon >> United States Marion County >> Oregon >> United States
Street Address: 875 Union St. N. E., Salem Oregon
Date: 1975/2012
Identifier: 1980_salem_empl-bldg_11d_b01
Item Locator: TRO:80-4; TRO:80-4a
Accession Number: 1980_salem_empl-bldg_11d_b01
Rights: In Copyright
Dc Rights Holder: Trotter, Claire
Language: English
Type: Text
Format: image/tiff
Set: Oregon Percent for Art
Primary Set: Oregon Percent for Art
Relation: 1980 Salem Employment Building 1980_salem_empl-bldg Storm over Dexter #268; Table Rock Santiam Pass #338
Has Version: black and white; documents
Institution: Oregon Arts Commission University of Oregon
Color Space: Grayscale