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BIOGRAPHY

DARIUS KUZMICKAS   Born 1969, Kaunas, Lithuania   EDUCATION   Darius Kuzmickas arrived at photography through fine art and design. In 1992 he immigrated to Salt Lake City from Lithuania to attend Graduate School of Architecture at the University of Utah, where he received his Masters Degree in 1995.   SELECTED EXHIBITIONS   2008 Luis De Jesus Seminal Projects, San Diego, CA 2006 “Ocean Pinholes”, Susan Street Fine Art Gallery, Solana Beach, CA 2005 Nevada Triennial, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV Solo Exhibition, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV “Camera Obscura: Modern Primitivism”, West Charleston Library, Las Vegas, Nevada “Camera Obscura: Modern Primitivism”, Kimball Art Center, Park City, UT “Snap” (and other exhibits), CAC Gallery, Las Vegas, NV 2004 “Polaroids”, Enterprise Library, Las Vegas, NV “Pinhole”, Winchester Center Gallery, Las Vegas, NV Egles Gallery, Kaunas, Lithuania “IZ IT Photography 4”, Calumet Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2002 “Nature/Everybody's Home”, Kaunas, Lithuania Visual Edge 2002 “Photography's Full Circle: The Pinhole Perspective”, Viewpoint Gallery, Sacramento, CA 2000 “About Prints and Photography”, Galeria d'Art Zero, Barcelona, Spain “Nature/Everybody's Home”, Kaunas, Lithuania   PUBLICATIONS   “Ocean Pinholes”, published in conjunction with the exhibition at Susan Street Fine Art Gallery, Solana Beach, CA. Essay by Kellie Schillaci; preface by Luis De Jesus. KuDa Editions, 2006 “Camera Obscura: Modern Primitivism”, published in conjunction with the exhibition at Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV. KuDa Editions, 2005   SELECTED PUBLIC/CORPORATE COLLECTIONS   Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV Allen Matkins Leck Gamble & Mallory LLP, San Diego, CA Kilroy Realty, San Diego, CA Open Energy, San Diego, CA GMS Realty, San Diego, CA Bellagio Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas, NV Harrah's Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas, NV   SELECTED PRIVATE   Gary Koerper, Evanston, IL & La Jolla, CA Phil Enquist, Winnetka, IL Jeri & Richard Crawford, Las Vegas, NV & Alpine, CA Lynn Heidel, Rancho Santa Fe, CA Charlene Biddulph, Solana Beach, CA Diana Clark, Del Mar, CA   AWARDS   2005 Best of Show: CAC 17th Annual Juried Show, CAC Gallery, Las Vegas, NV 2003 Second Place: BOS$, Clark County Annual Juried Fine Art Exhibition, Las Vegas, NV 2002 Honorable Mention/Fine Art: Americas Region, 3rd Polaroid International Photography Awards

STATEMENT

DARIUS KUZMICKAS   The coastline—could there be a more overused and clichéd metaphor for human existence? It's moody and temperamental, even without some heavy handed description of low or high tide. And yet, how many painters have lined its proverbial shores, both literally and figuratively attempting to wrangle some over obvious philosophical parallel between the power of the tides and the complications of human existence? So, then, what's so special about Darius Kuzmickas' artistic observations of so many shorelines? For one, his aim is more subtle; more diffused. Using pinhole photography, a practically prehistoric technique in this digital age, Darius relinquishes control, granting ultimate power to his subject matter, subtly reinforcing the immeasurable influence of our ever-changing horizon line. As the photographer, Darius determines the time of day, measures distances, sets up the angle and takes aim, but as with any lens-free pinhole shot, the outcome is often as surprising to the artist as it is to the casual viewer. Even more surprising is what these shots inspire.   Excerpted from essay by Kelle Schillaci