Michael Preble's Art & Bio
Michael Preble has been an active photographer since the late 1980s, first publishing his Caribbean photographs with International Voyager Media Miami. His work has been shown in galleries and museums, as well as many art fairs, throughout the Deep South and mid-Atlantic states. Michael has recently to Arkansas and AWG after five years in New Orleans, his childhood home. In addition, Michael balanced photography with a 40-year career as an art museum curator, including positions at the Arkansas Arts Center and the Peninsula Fine Arts Center, Virginia, among others. Also, he is a leading scholar on the work of the Abstract Expressionist painter William Baziotes and is Editor of the William Baziotes Catalogue Raisonné Project. He now lives with this wife and 2 vizslas in Camden, AR.
“About my pictures – I shoot all the time – from the changes along the Mississippi and the color and drama of Hot Springs Creek to the adventurous scenes of Mardi Gras and the mystery and eloquence of the unfamiliar. I have been fortunate to visit wonderful places - Japan, Thailand, France, Spain, England, Scotland, India and the Caribbean. In photography I have an eye for the unexpected and the weird; for pattern and serial imagery; asymmetry and heightened color. I am particularly fond of serial imagery – and am unafraid to add digital enhancement to selected photographs.”
“My museum work has offered many inspirations, particularly the pastel drawings of Edgar Degas, the watercolors of John Singer Sargent, the photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert Frank, and 19th-century Japanese ukiyo-e prints, including the art of Hiroshige, Hokusai and Kunisada.”
Check out more of his exceptional photography – full of color, inventive compositions and creative transformations – at www.mpreble.com. Contact: mpreble@verizon.net.
“About my pictures – I shoot all the time – from the changes along the Mississippi and the color and drama of Hot Springs Creek to the adventurous scenes of Mardi Gras and the mystery and eloquence of the unfamiliar. I have been fortunate to visit wonderful places - Japan, Thailand, France, Spain, England, Scotland, India and the Caribbean. In photography I have an eye for the unexpected and the weird; for pattern and serial imagery; asymmetry and heightened color. I am particularly fond of serial imagery – and am unafraid to add digital enhancement to selected photographs.”
“My museum work has offered many inspirations, particularly the pastel drawings of Edgar Degas, the watercolors of John Singer Sargent, the photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert Frank, and 19th-century Japanese ukiyo-e prints, including the art of Hiroshige, Hokusai and Kunisada.”
Check out more of his exceptional photography – full of color, inventive compositions and creative transformations – at www.mpreble.com. Contact: mpreble@verizon.net.