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ARTIST STATEMENT

"I could feel myself falling asleep – my thoughts turning into pictures – and the pictures forming a story – my dream."

I am interested in places; subjects and their environment that resonate from paradoxical moments in time – illusory places that are in the midst of change, yet for a moment, remain still. I am seduced by this translucent and symmetrical, highly organized plane. My photographs are not a substitute for the reality of a particular place; it’s only a matter of time and position. In relation to the surface, I hope that my photographs will uncover a new place.

Art exposes an unrestricted sketch of dreams, an unrelenting source of material imagination. The elusive nature of photography is the best way for me to understand and comment upon a world that hides more than it reveals. With my camera, I want to see a world that I see when my eyes are closed; with a photograph, I am reminded.

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BIO

Lucas Fladzinski graduated in 2004 with a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of California, Davis and in 2001, received a BFA degree in photography from Western Michigan University. Along with his fine art career, Lucas is a commercial photographer working primarily in the architecture, advertising and fashion industries. His work has been featured in several books and numerous blogs and magazines including California Home + Design, 7x7 and featured on the front page of the San Francisco Chronicle. For more information, please visit my website at www.fladzinski.com

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CV


PROMINENCE

2011 | 86 clients with more than 500 professional commissions and over 20 major publications since 2005
2011 | third book publication, 21st century homes
2010 | regular contributor to the ad campaign of fashion designer betsey johnson
2010 | second front cover photograph on aia’s small firms great projects magazine
2008 | international publication in clientele bahrain magazine
2008 | commission for san francisco based artist and landscape designer, topher delaney
2007 | second visiting artist portfolio lecture at san francisco art institute
2007 | front cover photo on san francisco chronicle magazine and front page photo on the chronicle
2007 | front cover photograph on small firms great projects magazine
2007 | visiting artist portfolio lecture at cornish college of the arts in seattle, wa
2007 | visiting artist portfolio lecture at san francisco art institute
2006 | international show in brisbane, australia
2006 | relocate to australia to start a new body of work
2006 | two lectures at michigan schools about careers in commercial and art photography
2005 | founded fladzinski photography & design, a commercial photography studio
2004 | graduate with mfa from uc davis
2003 | publish “predicting rainbows, the illusory of sensory perception and art making”
2002 | begin instruction and teaching at uc davis
2001 | graduate with bfa from western michigan university, receive the art star award for 2001
1998 | first solo show

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EDUCATION:

University of California, Davis
Davis, CA | Attended: September 2002 | Graduated: June 2004 | Degree: MFA

Western Michigan University
Kalamazoo, MI | Attended: August 1995 | Graduated: April 2001 Degree: BFA Photography

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SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2011 | Voyages | The Alamo | San Francisco, CA

2010 | My Heart Beats For SF | Sugar Café | San Francisco, CA

2001 | Horizon | Rotunda Gallery | Kalamazoo, MI

1998 | Untitled | Sangren Hall Gallery | Kalamazoo, MI

TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2000 | Into the Void | Rotunda Gallery | Kalamazoo, MI

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2010 | Pathways | Park Avenue | Oakland, CA

2010 | My Heart Beats For SF | Sugar Café | San Francisco, CA

2010 | After the Fall | San Pablo Arts Gallery | San Pablo, CA

2007 | KTIZO | Space Gallery | San Francisco, CA

2006 | Everything Creative | Gallery 647 Clement |San Francisco, CA

2006 | Scapes | The Blurb Gallery | St. Lucia, QLD, AU

2004 | Art Bowl III | B. Sakata Garo Gallery | Sacramento, CA

2001 | 2001 Student Art Show | Multimedia Center | Kalamazoo, MI

2000 | Holy Umbrella East Hall Gallery | Kalamazoo, MI

1999 | Jack-In Digital Art Show | East Hall Gallery | Kalamazoo, MI

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2004 | MFA Exhibition | Richard L. Nelson Gallery | Davis, CA

2003 | 4 + 4: MFA Show Pence Gallery | Davis, CA

2003 | 24 | Main Street Gallery | Woodland, CA

2002 | Graduate Student Art Show | Basement Gallery | Davis, CA

2001 | PhotoGeeks Do the Depot | The Depot Gallery | Kalamazoo, MI

2000 | WMU Video Presentation | Sangren Theater | Kalamazoo, MI

1999 | Advanced Photo Show | East Hall Gallery | Kalamazoo, MI

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PUBLICATIONS

944. Publication Release April 2011.

21st Century Homes. Book Release 2011.

944. January 2011: 51.

COVER “William Duff Architects.” Small Firms Great Projects 2010-11: 120-121.

“Y.A. Studio.” Small Firms Great Projects 2010-11: 122-123.

“Natural Instincts.” Custom Home Magazine. March – April 2010: 30-31.

“Kitchen: Natural Instincts.” Residential Architect. March – April 2010: 18-19.

“Day and Night.” California Home + Design August 2009: 140-141.

Yunghans, Regina. “Little Shots of Orange.” Apartment Therapy San Francisco. 13 October 2009.


Design Milk. 6 May 2009. Fritz.

Galindo, Michelle, ed. 1000x Architecture of the Americas. Verlagshaus Braun, 2008.

Tamarin, Nicholas. “San Jose Library Installs Photovoltaic Art Glass.” Interior Design. 26 Dec. 2008.

Clientele Magazine. Sept. 2008: 26. The Wow Factor.

COVER Puchall, Lauri. “The Uptown: Hipster Housing Goes Green.” Rental Housing. June 2008: 12-15.
COVER San Francisco Chronicle 4 Nov. 2007, early ed. : A1.

COVER Sardar, Zahid. “Menlo Park Redux: Where Recycling is Second Nature.” San Francisco Chronicle Magazine 4 Nov. 2007: 18-21.

COVER “Y.A. Studio.” Small Firms Great Projects 2007: 94-95.

“William Duff Architects.” Small Firms Great Projects 2007: 92-93.

Palmer, Tom, ed. Art of Seeing: Creative Photography. Berkeley: Alcove Books, 2007.

Rutsch, Doug. “Masters of Fine Arts students collaborate on split exhibition.” The California Aggie 7 June 2004: 4.

Moyle, Marilyn. “End-of-year joys.” The Davis Enterprise 17 June 2004: C3.

Munich, Suzanne. “The New Crop from UCD.” The Davis Enterprise 26 June 2003: B4.

Rutsch, Doug. “Masters of Fine Arts students collaborate on split exhibition.” The California Aggie 7 June 2004: 4.

Moyle, Marilyn. “End-of-year joys.” The Davis Enterprise 17 June 2004: C3.

Munich, Suzanne. “The New Crop from UCD.” The Davis Enterprise 26 June 2003: B4.

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COMMISSIONS

3 Phases Energy | AgencySacks | Argonaut | Bashford & Dale Interior Design | BayWest Builders | BCV Architects | Betsey Johnson | BJG Architecture | Bluepoint Leadership Development | Bottega Veneta | Brand Energy | Brander Designs | Burke Williams | C3 Advertising | Caldecott Properties | California Fish and Game | California Sports Spotlight | Caspian Partners | Clark Pacific | Closet World | Cohen Asset Management | Creative Search media | DA Pope | Davies Associates | DeNader Marketing Design | Doubletree Hotel | Dowler Gruman Architects | Education First | Electric Mirror | Exotic Hardwoods + Veneers | Frankfurt-Short-Bruza Associates | Fulcrum Property | Gaetani Real Estate | Geco Construction | George E. Masker | Hanson Lab Furniture | Hayward Industrial Capital | Hines Real Estate Securities | J. Weiss Design | Kavanagh Stair Company | KBS Realty Advisors | Keller Williams Realty | Leonard J. Russo, AIMS | Lithonia Lighting | Lynn Goodpasture | Maquette Interior Design | Marketshare | Martinkovic Milford Architects | MixtGreens Restaurant | Mizzico Furniture | Moz Designs | My Heart Beats for SF | NanaWall Systems | Newark Industrial Capital | NineVision | No. Eight Lighting | Novo Construction | Oceano Hotel | Optimum Window Manufacturing | Pacific Gateway Concessions | Paris Tile | PPM Energy | Prava Construction Services | Quogo | Re:modern Design | RGArchitecture | Security Public Storage | Shirley Parks Design | Steyer Law | StyleHaus | Susan Diana Harris Design | Taj Hotels | The Uptown Apartments | Topher Delaney | Total Concepts | United States Air Force | United States Army | Vessel | VFM Interactive | Watchlab | William Duff Architects | Woodshanti Cooperative | Y.A. Studio

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MEMBERSHIPS

American Society of Media Photographers, Inc. (ASMP)

The Association of Independent Architectural Photographers (AIAP)

Society for Photographic Education (SPE)

California Community College Registrant (CCC)

College Art Association (CAA)

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PERFORMANCE

11/20/09 Live studio shoot photographing Betsey Johnson’s 2010 Spring collection

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LECTURES

10/08/08 Visiting artist portfolio lecture at San Francisco Art Institute

11/06/07 Visiting artist portfolio lecture at San Francisco Art Institute

7/09/07 Visiting artist portfolio lecture at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, WA

4/21/06 Lecture to Bad Axe, MI High School art classes about career goals in fine art

4/19/06 Lecture to Bad Axe, MI Junior High students about careers in commercial photography

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SERVICE

6/14-23/06 Univ. of Queensland / HIRS coral research on Heron Island, Great Barrier Reef, QLD

10/04/05 Volunteered with UC, Davis marine ecology research in Willapa Bay, WA

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HONORS

Olsen Award Recipient, 2003 and 2002 UCD Block Grant Recipient, USAA All-American Scholar, 2001 WMU Art Star Award, Gilmore Fund Recipient, Honors Graduate – Cum Laude

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EXPERIENCE

Currently in conjunction with my fine art photography career, I founded Fladzinski Photograph & Design in May 2005, a commercial photography studio in San Francisco with much of my workflow concentrated upon architectural, advertising and fashion photography. I also employ my experience offering lessons and workshops to individuals to satisfy a number of photographic needs ranging from basic 35mm film camera and advanced digital SLR operation to one on one critiques. As a professional photographer, my responsibilities include location photography, digital image editing, client communication, contract negotiation, advertising and marketing my services including designing and maintaining my website, direct mailing, writing press releases, etc.

I have over three years of university teaching experience with demonstrated ability to work with individuals of diverse age, socioeconomic and ethnic backgrounds and learning abilities. Summer 2004, as a position of lecturer, I taught a summer session beginning drawing class at the University of California, Davis. In the fall of 2003, as an assistant instructor, I was selected to teach the same class, beginning drawing. During graduate school, I was selected as a teacher’s assistant for five terms under the professorships of Hannah Collins (photographer / filmmaker), Mark Van Proyen (inter-media artist) and Hisham Bizri (filmmaker / philosopher). The classes that I have teacher assisted for include beginning and advanced photography, inter-media printmaking and documentary film. My responsibilities as a lecturer, assistant instructor and teachers assistant include planning course syllabus and projects, lecturing, directing critiques, grading, preparing slide presentations, organizing technical workshops and collaborative projects, preparing annual budgetary darkroom and lab expenditures, selecting student work for exhibitions, purchasing class and darkroom materials, planning field trips, etc.

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PROFICIENCY

I have a broad background in historical and contemporary art, art photography, art theory and criticism and extensive image making skills including small, medium and large format film and digital camera operation with an emphasis in tilt-shift techniques for perspective control, expertise in Photoshop retouching, studio and location lighting, raw image batch processing, color management and custom color profiling, web design, stock photography, film scanning / manipulation and printing, black / white and color film processing and printing, zone system and exposure correction, exhibition installation, advertising and marketing skills, budget and deadline constraints, client communication, contract negotiation, sales and studio management, digital video and sound editing. I have excellent Mac OSX software proficiency including Adobe Creative Suite 4, Microsoft Office 2008, Autopano Pro, etc.