Ze daLuz

• born in Chicago Illinois
• live in New Orleans, Louisiana

STUDIES

• Photography, Seattle Community College, Seattle WA
• Design Theory, University of Washington, Seattle WA
• Life Drawing, Pratt Institute, Seattle WA
• Handbuilt Ceramics, Anne Moorehouse, Seattle WA
• Painting & Computer Graphics, self taught
• Website and Graphic Design, self taught

EXHIBITS

• 2008
  Group Show "Exposed 2", HiHo Lounge, New Orleans, LA
  
• 2007
  Group Show "No Dead Artists", Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, New Orleans, LA
  Group Show "Red Show", The Darkroom, New Orleans, LA
  Featured artist, Alvar Arts Series, Alvar Library, New Orleans, LA
  Group Show "the `i' show", The Darkroom, New Orleans, LA
  Featured artist "Revelry", Big Top Gallery, New Orleans, LA
  Bywater/Marigny Open Studio Day, New Orleans, LA (April 21-22)
  
• 2006
  Group Show “Ohr Rising”, Ohr-O’Keefe Museum, Biloxi, MS
  Group Show “Katrina Exposed” New Orleans Museum of Art
  Group Show “Water” Metropolis Gallery, Bremerton, WA
  Bywater/Marigny Open Studio Day, New Orleans, LA
• 2005
  Bywater/Marigny Open Studio Day, New Orleans, LA
  Group Show “Celebrating the Art of Women” Martha Mabey Gallery, Biloxi, Miss
  Group Show “All That Art”
  Fair Grinds Coffee House, New Orleans, LA
  Group Show "New Year New Art"
  Ashe Gallery, New Orleans, LA
• 2004
  Bywater/Marigny Open Studio Day, New Orleans, LA
  Cafe Brasil Spring Show, New Orleans, LA

ARTIST STATEMENT
My work is a collage of impressions meant to stimulate the senses with color and motion both real and imaginary. Melding photography with digital graphics, I create portraits of people and places. My goal is to elicit emotional response from the viewer; a sense of uncertain recognition of images they thought were uniquely theirs.

I have worked with and studied many forms of artistic expression including drawing, painting, photography, computer graphics, poetry, fiber arts, and ceramics. Although I continue to produce work in many of these disciplines, photo art is my current method of communication with my audience.

My current series, LIGHTWORLD, explores the boundaries of natural and artificial light and color. My works are issued only in limited editions of 10 photographic prints, matted and framed.