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Darryl Curran, Professor Emeritus
Creative Photography Department Chair 1989-99
Long recognized as a major force in the Art Photography field he continues to make evocative images using a variety of approaches. His exploration of high resolution scanning at Nash Studios produced a porfolio of images dedicated to the memory of his wife Doris Curran. Poems by a number of the poets that Doris supported during her career accompany the images. The portfolio is available for purchase as well as a traveling exhibition. While a resident at the Retreat he turns the basement of Wiggie into a none-silver darkroom to explore the forms of nature he finds in the landscape of northeast Georgia through subtle, multicolored gum printed cliche verres.
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EDUCATION: A.A. Ventura College, 1958; Art B.A. UCLA, 1960; Design M.A. UCLA, 1964; Photography and Design PROFESSIONAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS Professor Curran has been active in the fine art photography field since 1965 as exhibitor, curator, juror and board member of several arts organizations. He joined the CSUF faculty in 1967 and initiated the Creative Photography B.A. and M.A. program. Curran's creative work is housed in major public collections and has been included in numerous important group shows such as Photography into Sculpture and Mirrors and Windows, Museum of Modern Art; Vision and Expression, International Museum of Photography/ George Eastman House; Photography into Art, British Arts Council; Light and Substance, University of New Mexico; Extending the Perimeters of Twentieth Century Photography San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Photography and Art/Interactions since 1946, Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Fort Laud-erdale Museum of Art; Lost in Found in California: Four Decades of Assem-blage Art, G. Ray Hawkins Gallery, Los Angeles; Proof: Los Angeles Art and the Photograph, Laguna Art Museum (traveling). In 1995 he was invited to Madrid to represent the USA and the participating artists at the opening of Empowered Images, a cultural presentation of the United States of America, a traveling exhibition of contemporary photography. PERMANENT COLLECTIONS: (Selected) Oakland Museum; National Gallery of Canada: International Museum of Photography/ GEH, Rochester; Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University; Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, UCLA/Armand Hammer Museum; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Minneapolis Art Institute; Royal Photographic Society, Bath, England; Philadelphia Museum of Art. |