About Jay Moreno
Jay is a 1980 graduate of the School of Visual Arts in NYC where he learned a great craft from the old-master professionals and teachers of the 50’s, 60’s, and 70’s era. Using a custom lens on a digital platform, he is creating images as he shoots, in-camera and without post manipulation. Pursuing this project for the last several years, he now presents this black&white, photographic/philosophical collection for gallery and show purposes.
For the oddest reasons, he began an existence in wonderful Charleston, South Carolina on his boat. The images are from Charleston and the surrounding southern community, and are indicative of his visual world due to his astigmatism, near sightedness, and cataract conditions. He simply sees this way, very reminiscent of early black and white view-camera work, and without any time connection or people, he is adding his own certain degree of lonely abandonment.
His main thrust here is to introduce an artistic genre movement culminating in “A Way of Seeing”. In addition to the “opening show” work, there are several other “mind- made” categories that would support further shows and be part of the book that he is now compiling, and which includes the philosophy behind it.
Twenty-four by sixteen inches archivally printed on canvas.