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dorothypilla@yahoo.com www.dorothyamorepilla.com artist's bio
Canyon Walker - Digital Image/Photo Montage
Blended Beliefs - Digital Image/Photo Montage
Home - Digital Image
Two Spirit Women - Digital Image/Photo Montage
Playing with Time - Digital Image/Photo Montage
About the Artist: Dorothy Amore Pilla is a native of New England and has chosen to always live near the coast. Dorothy earned a Four-year Diploma and a Fifth-year Graduate Certificate from The School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and a Bachelor of Science in Art Education, a Master of Arts, and a Museum Education Certificate from Tufts University in Medford. It was during her graduate study that Dorothy became fascinated with digital image making, a medium that allows for the plasticity of the imagery central to her work. Much of Dorothy’s work reflects themes of solitude and is devoid of people. The images Dorothy captures in digital photographs are woven into compositions that make the familiar seem unfamiliar and the ordinary seem extraordinary. Working through the digital medium, Dorothy produces complex images by manipulating color and form as if with brushes, paint, and pencils. Following a full career in higher art education, Dorothy Amore Pilla now resides with her husband in the coastal town of Duxbury, MA where they own and operate Night and Day Studio. I capture images in digital photographs and use them to build new images. My early experience as a printmaker still influences the way I work in that each piece I create evolves through a series of progressive stages. Through selection and emphasis of form, I modify the visual cacophony of daily life and concentrate on the purity of a moment. By manipulating light, form, color, repetition, and pattern I transform reality into a comment about an encapsulated moment. My content begins where evidence of living creatures may be felt but not seen, and where a living presence may leave its mark on a moment in time. The places and objects I photograph may be ordinary and might be passed by unnoticed if attention were not called to them. The viewer sees what the image presents, and the image says that nothing is ordinary, that it is the essence of the perceived moment that holds meaning.
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