Eric Robert Vaughn Biography

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1 Eric Robert Vaughn 2512 Church Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio Cellular Telephone: Website: Biography I am an artist, educator, and photographer living in Cleveland, Ohio. My art practice seeks to elicit ideas through artworks that at once utilize the means of making, the formal display, and the contemporary discourse regarding photographs, to address experiences of everyday life and the constructs of subjective knowledge. Retaining the photographic trace of observable phenomena operates as a guiding principle in my art practice through which essential tenets of the medium are both critiqued and used to demonstrate key concepts. My artworks have long been recognized for technical mastery and artistic vision. Recent works from my Fragments of the Everyday and Distant, Disrupted Visions series have received positive critical review and have been included in several group exhibitions juried by Barbara Tannenbaum, Curator of Photography for The Cleveland Museum of Art; Diane Waggoner, associate curator in the department of photographs at the National Gallery of Art, Washington; and others. Since 1998, I have taught a wide range of photography courses as an adjunct professor for six regional colleges and universities, such as Lakeland Community College, Kent State University, and Cleveland State University. I have had the opportunity to teach photography courses, both film and digitally based, including basic through advanced photography, as well as studio lighting courses, electronic imaging using Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom, and a professional practices course for photographers. Over the course of my teaching career thus far, I have had the pleasure of watching many of my students move on to great accomplishments, and have received feedback that I contributed to their success. They have become independent commercial photographers, working artists, and several community college students have been accepted to some of the most selective undergraduate programs in the country. My professional experience producing photographs began in 1990, working in and maintaining small retail photo labs. Ever since I have made a career of photography from printing color mural photographs at custom photo labs during the mid-nineties, to managing a commercial studio during the late-nineties, to running my own independent commercial photography studio. My areas of photographic expertise run the gamut of applied photography from architectural and product photography to portraiture and analytical photography. My wide range of commercial photographic skills can be demonstrated through a sampling of my clientele: The Lincoln Electric Company, producing product and corporate photography; the United States General Service Administration, photographing architectural interiors and exteriors of federal buildings and documenting fine art holdings; The Lubrizol Corporation, producing analytical photographs of test engine parts in support of research and development. Born in Mississippi, raised in Northeast Ohio, I received an Associate of Arts from Lakeland Community College, a BA in Humanities from Ursuline College, and a MFA in Studio Arts from the Maine College of Art. I live and work in Cleveland, Ohio. My passion for photography is matched only by my passion for rigorous thought translated into art.

2 Curriculum Vitae EDUCATION 2012 Master of Fine Arts in Studio Arts, Maine College of Art, Portland, ME 2010 Bachelor of Arts in Humanities, Ursuline College, Pepper Pike, OH Alpha Sigma Lambda Honor Society (4.0 GPA) 1995 Associate of Arts, Lakeland Community College, Kirtland, OH 1996 Ohio University, Athens, OH (College of Fine Arts) EXHIBITION LIST 2015 Photo Now, Artists Archives of the Western Reserve at Gallery East of Cuyahoga Community College s, Eastern Campus, Highland Hills, OH (Juror: Dr. Unni Pulikkal) Artwork selected for long-term display at Cleveland Tea Revival, Cleveland, OH Biennial Six-State Photography Exhibition, Firelands Association for the Visual Arts at New Union Center for the Arts, Oberlin, OH (Jurors: Nancy McEntee & Jonathan Wayne) The 6 th Annual May Show at Lakeland, The Gallery at Lakeland, Kirtland, OH (Jurors: Lauren Davies & Tom Huck) 2014 The 21 st People s Art Show, The Art Gallery at Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH Western Reserve Open Photography Competition, The Artists Archives of the Western Reserve, Cleveland, OH (Juror: Diane Waggoner, Ph.D.) 2013 Tri-C Faculty Art Exhibition Biennial , Visual Arts Faculty Exhibition at Cuyahoga Community College Gallery East, Highland Hills, OH (Invitational) Western Reserve Open Photography Competition, The Artists Archives of the Western Reserve, Cleveland, OH (Juror: Barbara Tannenbaum, Ph.D.) Biennial Six-State Photography Exhibition, Firelands Association for the Visual Arts at New Union Center for the Arts, Oberlin, OH (Juror: Charles J. Mintz) 2012 Master of Fine Arts in Studio Arts Thesis Exhibit, Maine College of Art, Portland, ME (Invitational) Artwork selected for long-term display at Lakeland Community College, Kirtland, OH The 20 th People s Art Show, The Art Gallery at Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH 2011 Six-State Photography Exhibition, Firelands Association for the Visual Arts at New Union Center for the Arts, Oberlin, OH (Juror: Kitty McManus Zurko) MFA Retrospective Exhibit, Maine College of Art, Portland, ME (Invitational)

3 2010 MFA Retrospective Exhibit, Maine College of Art, Portland, ME (Invitational) 2009 What's In Our Creative Pocket?, Celebrating the talents of the Lakeland Family of Visual Artists at The Gallery at Lakeland, 29th Annual Six-State Photography Exhibition, Firelands Association for the Visual Arts at New Union Center for the Arts, Oberlin, OH (Juror: Christopher Yate, Juror's award received) th Annual Six-State Photography Exhibition, Firelands Association for the Visual Arts at New Union Center for the Arts, Oberlin, OH (Juror: Justin Kronewetter, The Architecture Award received) th Annual Six-State Photography Exhibition, Firelands Association for the Visual Arts at New Union Center for the Arts, Oberlin, OH (Juror: Marcella Hackbardt) Addy Awards, American Advertising Federation of Cleveland, OH (Competition, awarded a Silver Addy) 2006 Northeast Ohio Panoramic Photography Exhibit, The Gallery at Lakeland, Kirtland, OH (Juror: Andrew Russetti) 26th Annual Six-State Photography Exhibition, Firelands Association for the Visual Arts at New Union Center for the Arts, Oberlin, OH (Juror: Robert L. Palmer) th Annual Six-State Photography Exhibition, Firelands Association for the Visual Arts at New Union Center for the Arts, Oberlin, OH (Juror: Pipo Nguyen-duy) BLACK WHITE, The Mansfield Art Center, Mansfield, OH (Invitational) 2004 Two-Person Exhibition, Walls Wires Wells: Elements of a Relationship, Pavanna Gallery, Cleveland, OH (with abstract and found object artist, Brenda Stumpf) The 34th Annual J.C.C. Photography Show, The Jewish Community Center of Cleveland and the Beck Center for the Arts, Cleveland, OH (Juror: Catherine Evans, The Best in Color Award received) 24th Annual Six-State Photography Exhibition, Firelands Association for the Visual Arts at New Union Center for the Arts, Oberlin, OH (Juror: Ferinand Protzman) Scribbles by Skaters, 1300 Gallery, Cleveland, OH (Invitational) 2001 Two-Person Exhibition, Michael Stefan Salon & Gallery, Willoughby, OH (with photographic artist, Jaime Kennedy)

4 Lakeland Community College Student Visual Arts Exhibit, The Gallery at Lakeland, 1994 Lakeland Community College Student Visual Arts Exhibit, The Gallery at Lakeland, Artwork selected for Lakeland Community College s permanent collection, Kirtland, OH Photographer s Forum: Best of College Photography, Photographer's Forum Magazine, Santa Barbara, CA (Competition, Published National Finalist) 1993 Lakeland Community College Student Visual Arts Exhibit, The Gallery at Lakeland, 1992 Photographer s Forum: Best of College Photography, Photographer's Forum Magazine, Santa Barbara, CA (Competition, Published National Finalist) Lakeland Community College Student Visual Arts Exhibit, The Gallery at Lakeland, Kirtland, OH (Juror: Bruce Cline, 1 st Place Award for Portraiture) TEACHING EXPERIENCE Part-Time Faculty, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH (Courses taught: Photography 1) Part-Time Faculty, Notre Dame College, South Euclid, OH (Courses taught: Photography 1) Part-Time Faculty, Cuyahoga Community College, Parma, OH (Courses taught: Photography 1) Part-Time Faculty, Lakeland Community College, Kirtland, OH (Courses taught: Basic Photography, Basic Photography-Digital, Intermediate Photography, Advanced Photography, The Photo Story, Commercial Photography, Electronic Imaging 1) 2014 Part-Time Faculty, Youngstown State University, Youngstown, OH (Courses taught: Introduction to Photography) Part-Time Faculty, Kent State University, Kent, OH (Courses taught: Photography, Photography 2, and Internship Seminar: Photo Illustration) PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 1991-Present Sole Proprietor/Photographer, Eric Vaughn Photography, Cleveland, OH (Selected client list: The Lubrizol Corporation, United States General Services Administration, Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp., Nestle Corp., Football Hall of Fame, The Lincoln Electric Company) 2015 Juror, Out of Place Competition, Western Reserve Photographic Society, Willoughby, OH, March Lecture/Presentation, Cuyahoga Community College, Western Campus, Parma, OH, November Contract Photographic Assistant, Cleveland, OH (Selected client list: James Balog, Taxel Image Group, Kalman & Pabst Photo Group, Remington Productions, Roger Mastroianni Photography) First Assistant Photographer, Barney Taxel & Company, Cleveland, OH Color Printing Darkroom Technician, KSK Color Labs, Solon, OH 1996 Color Printing Darkroom Technician, Midtown Imaging, Cleveland, OH

5 REFERENCES Chris Whittey, Vice President of Academic and Faculty Affairs The Cleveland Institute of Art East Boulevard Cleveland, Ohio Telephone: Jonathan L. Wayne, Associate Professor/Coordinator, Photography Cuyahoga Community College, Western Campus Visual Communication & Design, Office #C Pleasant Valley Road Parma, Ohio Telephone: Amy Peck, Department Chair, Graphic Design Lakeland Community College, Main Campus Arts & Humanities, Office #C Clocktower Drive Kirtland, Ohio Telephone: