The River Market Regional Exibition, The Kansas City Artist Coalition, July 2008
Soulard Photography Invitational, Soulard Art Market, April 2008
Fotofest, Houston, TX. March 2008
Southern Illinois Artist Open Competition and Exhibition, Cederhurst Center for the Arts, October 21, 2007
Art St. Louis XXI, Art St. Louis, November 2005, 2007
Missouri 50, Missouri State Fair, August 2003, 2007
PhotoSpiva, George A. Spiva Center for the Arts, Joplin, MO, April 2007
SCC Photography Invitational, St. Charles Community College, September 2006
New Works 9 States Biennial, Art St. Louis, September 2004, 2006
Selections from the Contemporary’s Flat Files, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, June 2006
Way Out West Invitational, Chesterfield Arts, June 2006
Honor Awards 2006, Art St. Louis, March 2006
The Work of Greg Barth, The Foundry Art Centre, April 2005
The Quiet Eye-Works by Greg Barth, Bellville Arts Centre, February 2005
MOAK 2004, Springfield (Missouri) Art Museum, November 2004
Art St. Louis XXI, November 2005, Art St. Louis, Award of Excellence, Purchase Award
Art and Air, June 2005, Webster Groves, MO, 2nd place photography
Artist of the Month, May 2004, June 2005, Artistregister.com
Art Outside, September 2004, The Schlafly Bottleworks, Best of Show
A Profession of Art: A Mid-Career Show, September 2004, The Foundry Art Centre, Best of Show
Deus Ex Machina Digital Photography Exhibit, March 2002, Bradley University, Second Place, Photo Category
Camera Arts Magazine Contest, October 2001, First Place, Digital Capture
Quite a few years ago I thought I knew everything. Even though that phase did not last long, it took a long time before I could accept and even appreciate questions that I did not know the answer. Most of my work is about unsolved situations where the resolution is not that important and probably not very interesting. Who hangs out here? Why is this here? What goes on inside? Where does it go? The mind can come up with a better answer than reality. This work embraces the question while ignoring the answer.
All of these images are photographed with a large format camera on color transparency film. They are all created in Missouri not for any reason other than I am looking for places I come across on a normal day. The images are composed in-camera. Including the shallow depth of field. The film is scanned, spotted, adjusted in Photoshop and output as a digital pigment print. All prints are produced by me on my own equipment with archival inksets on watercolor paper. The prints are mounted on acid free museum rag board.
I was born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1966. I earned a bachelor’s degree from Central Missouri State University in Commercial Photography in 1989. After working in the industry for a few years I decided even though my work was technically well executed, there was not any meaning to my images. I began a quest to find out why I photograph and this search continues into the present. I live in Wildwood, Missouri with my wife Cindy and our two children.
Education
B.S., Commercial Photography, Central Missouri State University, Warrensburg, MO 1989