TAWA at 45
The Exhibition
Aubrey J. Kauffman
Enter/Exit
archival inkjet print, 2016; 17″h x 26″w
Aubrey J Kauffman is a past president of the Trenton Artists Workshop Association. While president of TAWA, he created “Trenton Takes: 24 Hours in the City,” a photo-documentary project that featured the work of 29 photographers who spent one 24-hour period photographing life in the city of Trenton. He is a fine art photographer living and working in Ewing, New Jersey and holds an MFA in visual arts from Rutgers University’s Mason Gross School of the Arts. He has worked as a cinematographer, shooting documentaries, news, sports, and features for New Jersey Public Television, and he is a Contributing Journalist for US 1, a business and entertainment weekly based in Princeton, NJ. He is a contributing producer for State of the Arts, an arts magazine show that is broadcast on PBS stations in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and streams on All Arts. He has been twice nominated for Emmys by the Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the National Association of Television Arts and Sciences.
“The environment that has influenced my photography and is drawn from the northeastern part of the country where I live and work. The themes of the human-altered landscape and their impact have long challenged me artistically and intellectually. I witness this in urban structures as simple as building façades in a strip mall to the deserted athletic fields of parks and playgrounds. The resulting work is an interaction of formal and organic elements. Through my viewfinder I seek to contrast and compare the interactions of natural and man-made elements. I tend to seek out areas and landscapes that speak to a certain stillness. In the buildings and structures that I photograph, I emphasize their graphic quality along within the space that they exist. Line, geometry, shadow, and light play major roles in my image making. While I consider my work to be informed by traditional landscape, my interpretation reflects a sense of solitude that I wish to convey to the viewer.”