This is Me, A.B.

Drop Me A Note

A Cauterized Wound

Smoke & Soil

A.B. is an Oregon-born, New York-based experimental and conceptual artist engaging with photography, bookmaking, and performance. Describing their work as Questioning, A.B. utilizes an integrative process to form visual experiments scrutinizing notions of cultural communication, institutional authority, and the shared human experience through poetic structure and gesture.

By inviting viewers to delve deeper and draw their own interpretations, A.B.’s work prioritizes further questioning rather than providing definitive answers.

Holding a BFA in Photography from the State University of New York at New Paltz, A.B. has exhibited internationally with: The Samuel Dorsky Museum - New Paltz, NY, The Artbar Gallery - Kingston, NY, the Newburg Community Photo Project Gallery - Newburgh, NY, and the Space Place Gallery - Nizhny Tagil, Russia. He is the recipient of the 2022 Giancarlo Traverso Award and a 2021 inaugural Truth be Told Fellow with the Newburgh Community Photography Project.

Group Shows

2022

Smoke & Soil, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz, NY, United States

2021

Truth Be Told, Newburgh Community Photo Project, New Paltz, NY, United States

Simple Form, Space Place Gallery, Nizhniy Tagil, Ural, Russia

2020

Withdrawn, Sojourner Truth Library at SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz, NY, United States

An Existing Condition, Space Place Gallery, Nizhniy Tagil, Ural, Russia

2019

Listen, Art Bar Gallery, Kingston, New York, United States

Social Changes, Sojourner Truth Library at SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz, New York, United States

Publication

2025

Anarchy°2, Group Publication, Ephemera

2022

A Cauterized Wound, Artist Book, Self-published

Assembly Art Journal #3, Group Publication, Assemply

2020

Organic Chemistry, Group Zine, Self-published

Election, Group Catalog, SUNY New Paltz

Awards & Fellowships

2022

Luigi and Anita Traverso Award in Photography

2021

Newburgh Community Photography Project Truth Be Told - Innagural Fellow