Tom Hubbard

Biography  ::
I’ve come to digital abstract art after a lifetime career of realistic photography. Abstract elements of line, form and mass, contribute to the communication power of a realistic image. I now bring abstract elements to the foreground, elevating them from a supporting role to being the subject. I work spontaneously on a piece until I see a theme. Each work remains abstract, but I see a visual theme that is almost a narrative. The theme arises automatically from a store of experiences from my career in realistic photography. I work until I find an emotion represented in abstract forms. My digital imaging is an extension of the creative controls I could exercise doing documentary photography. It is a visual means to say things in a universal way, allowing you to make his or her own discoveries. I worked at the Cincinnati Enquirer for 12 years and later did freelance photojournalism for: Time, People Weekly, TV Guide, US Magazine, The New York Times, BusinessWeek, Fortune, Barrons, Der Spiegel, Family Circle, Good Housekeeping, etc. I taught photojournalism at the Ohio State Univ. School of Journalism from 1983 to 1998. My work has been exhibited in group shows at the Contemporary Art Center and the Taft Museum in Cincinnati, Ohio and the Columbus Museum of Art, and six solo shows including The Ohio State University and the Ohio State Fair in Columbus, Ohio and at the Graduate School of Journalism at California State University at Berkeley and The US General Services Administration building in Washington, DC