Carl Chiarenza and Roger Bruce - Interior / Exterior
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Artist Link: Carl Chiarenza
Carl Chiarenza (b.1935) and Roger Bruce (b. 1946) share a deep interest in the history and aesthetics of photography. Carl is a scholar, educator, and an established artist of major reputation. And it was only five years ago that Roger began to make photographs in earnest. Roger will tell you that he is a student and admirer of Carl’s work: “It is so pure. He’s an artist who makes images using photography’s most elemental assets.” And for Roger, after 45 years working in organizations that care for or interpret photographs, he was keen to be a “born again” image maker – but this time using the surprisingly precise yet fluid tools of digital production.
Here in Interior/Exterior we see clearly contrasting work -- bound together in shared views and mutual respect.
Chiarenza is Artist-in-Residence, and Fanny Knapp Allen Professor Emeritus of Art History, at the University of Rochester. He was Fanny Knapp Allen Professor there (1986-1998). At Boston University (1963-1986), he was Chairman, Director of Graduate Studies, and Professor of Art History. He also taught at Smith College and Cornell University. Born 1935, in Rochester NY, he received an A.A.S. (1955) and a B.F.A. (1957) from Rochester Institute of Technology, a M.S. (1959) and A.M. (1964) from Boston University and the Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1973. Chiarenza has lectured and taught workshops at over 100 institutions in 33 states since 1966. His photographs have been seen in over 80 one-person, and in over 250 group exhibitions since 1957.
![Bold and dark black and white abstracted photographic image.](/universitygallery/sites/rit.edu.universitygallery/files/2019-11/interiorExterior.jpg)
![Samurai, 2000 Bold and dark black and white abstracted photographic image.](/universitygallery/sites/rit.edu.universitygallery/files/styles/large/public/2020-06/Samurai%20197%2C%202000%20AP.jpg?itok=UgUqvbBH)
Samurai, 2000
![Heidi's Garden, 1991 Bold and dark black and white abstracted photographic image.](/universitygallery/sites/rit.edu.universitygallery/files/styles/large/public/2020-06/HeidisGarden_171_1991.jpg?itok=hZnkx5iR)
Heidi's Garden, 1991
Untitled 053, 2007
![Goya 263, 1994 Bold and dark black and white abstracted photographic image.](/universitygallery/sites/rit.edu.universitygallery/files/styles/large/public/2020-06/Goya%20263%2C%201994.jpg?itok=GOIv1wtr)
Goya 263, 1994
![Untitled 088, 2012 Bold and dark black and white abstracted photographic image.](/universitygallery/sites/rit.edu.universitygallery/files/styles/large/public/2020-06/Untitled%20088%2C%202012.jpg?itok=_20XhmsT)
Untitled 088, 2012
![Tenaya 265, 1991 Bold and dark black and white abstracted photographic image.](/universitygallery/sites/rit.edu.universitygallery/files/styles/large/public/2020-06/Tenaya%20265%2C%201991.jpg?itok=T081vi4n)
Tenaya 265, 1991
![Don Quixote 190/192, 1993 Bold and dark black and white abstracted photographic image.](/universitygallery/sites/rit.edu.universitygallery/files/styles/large/public/2020-06/Don%20Quixote%20190%2C%20192%2C%201993.jpg?itok=eniQ6vZz)
Don Quixote 190/192, 1993
Gulda, 2013
![Exhibition brochure Exhibition brochure cover with text 'Interior/Exterior - Carl Charenza, Roger Bruce with black and with abstract photographic image](/universitygallery/sites/rit.edu.universitygallery/files/styles/large/public/2020-06/Screen%20Shot%202020-06-26%20at%2012.31.46%20PM.png?itok=kDkZ8nrR)
Exhibition brochure
![Exhibition catalog page 2 with text and color photo image of stairwell in Grand Central Station](/universitygallery/sites/rit.edu.universitygallery/files/styles/large/public/2020-06/Screen%20Shot%202020-06-26%20at%2012.50.15%20PM.png?itok=vpZ8HLaw)
![Exhibition catalog page 3 - all text](/universitygallery/sites/rit.edu.universitygallery/files/styles/large/public/2020-06/Screen%20Shot%202020-06-26%20at%2012.50.28%20PM.png?itok=dzCtMA4j)
![Exhibition back cover with RIT and University Gallery logo, address and cold photo image of a snowy field with rocks protruding in a pattern](/universitygallery/sites/rit.edu.universitygallery/files/styles/large/public/2020-06/Screen%20Shot%202020-06-26%20at%2012.49.59%20PM_0.png?itok=8GV9_6lG)