About
The art of photographer, media producer, and mixed media artist Mark Vitaris is sweeping in style and scope. Through his art, he preserves that which is ephemeral. There is an intimate connection between the forms his art takes and the circumstances from which it derives. He endeavours to create a circle of art by reintroducing his work back into the community from where it originated.
Throughout his professional and artistic career, location photography has been his chosen métier. His work is project-based and interdisciplinary honed from decades of professional assignments employing natural light and conditions to interpret visual concepts. Five years of research and travel went into the production of his award winning book, Borderlands, (Frontenac House Ltd. 2020).
In his mixed media assemblages, he his work employs the use of photography, optics and a variety of ephemera where abstraction creates its own language and its own metaphysical dimension. Subjective dislocation in time and space is mediated and transformed through associative poetic understanding to explore relationships between reality and inquisitive imagination.
Born in Buffalo, New York, Vitaris holds a B.A. in Communications, from the University of Ottawa (Canada). His award winning work has been widely exhibited and is included in private and public collections provincially, nationally, and internationally.
He is currently working on Buffalo Traces a companion book to Borderlands and resides in Calgary, Alberta.
Throughout his professional and artistic career, location photography has been his chosen métier. His work is project-based and interdisciplinary honed from decades of professional assignments employing natural light and conditions to interpret visual concepts. Five years of research and travel went into the production of his award winning book, Borderlands, (Frontenac House Ltd. 2020).
In his mixed media assemblages, he his work employs the use of photography, optics and a variety of ephemera where abstraction creates its own language and its own metaphysical dimension. Subjective dislocation in time and space is mediated and transformed through associative poetic understanding to explore relationships between reality and inquisitive imagination.
Born in Buffalo, New York, Vitaris holds a B.A. in Communications, from the University of Ottawa (Canada). His award winning work has been widely exhibited and is included in private and public collections provincially, nationally, and internationally.
He is currently working on Buffalo Traces a companion book to Borderlands and resides in Calgary, Alberta.