Glenn Stern

Glenn Stern is an Orange County, CA based photographer, artist, and lecturer.  He has traveled to over 100 countries on 6 continents, documenting the human condition…

on political, sociological, artistic, and anthropological levels, mirrored by unauthorized expressions on the walls, boulders and structures of planet Earth.

Stern studied Political Science and Philosophy at California State University, Fullerton.  His formal Photography education was at Cypress College and Orange Coast College.

Stern worked as an adjunct photographer on the Laguna Canyon Project and the Legacy Project.  He has exhibited at a multitude of venues including the Edouard de Merlier Gallery, BC Space Laguna Beach, Sol Art Gallery, Cafe & Gallery Bolivar Santa Monica, Minolta Gallery, Revolution Gallery & Salon, Irvine City Hall, Orange County Historical Museum, and the El Toro Marine Base.  Stern’s photographs have been discussed in the Los Angeles Times, Orange County Register, Long Beach Press Telegram, and the OC Weekly.

Stern is a self-described Vagabond/Bum with a camera who gets his passion from the waves of the ocean created by the transformations of the sun’s energy, and all the relationships on this adventure called life.

UNAUTHORIZED MANIFESTATIONS

Fusion/Synthesis

Fusion/Synthesis is excerpts from chapters of the ongoing photography project titled UNAUTHORIZED MANIFESTATIONS, which is a documentation of public art and in particular, graffiti from around the world. Man has had the need to make his mark on the environment and change it throughout time. He/she has used many mediums – from paint to bulldozers. This expression has been a reflection of man’s search of self in relationship to the environment, both on individual and collective levels.  These expressions and the attempts to repress them have continued to form a unique beauty and wisdom. According to James Progoff, Art Curator, “Political artists and those who struggle for social justice have long seen the ‘Museum of the Streets’ or the ‘Museum without Walls’ as an alternative space in which to be seen and heard by large numbers of people, particularly since they are denied access by the co-opted channels of mass information distribution.”

Fusion/Synthesis is a collection of images from a variety of chapters from the UNAUTHORIZED MANIFESTATIONS project including Questions, New World Order, Voices from the Other Side, Hey God I Am Here, Southeast Asia, Women, and America/Amerika. The images presented here in Fusion/Synthesis were captured with 35mm positive film. They were digitally printed on Fuji Crystal Archive paper by a Light Jet printer and Epson Ultra Premium Luster paper by an Ink Jet printer.

During the later years of the 20th century, I was opposed to computerization in the arts and in my personal life.  I resisted the progression of Analog to Digital. Jerry Burchfield was my mentor in the Cibachrome realm.  As I accepted the transformation of photography, John Hesketh became my Digital photography mentor. These photographic images are the synthesis and fusion of Hesketh and Burchfield through me.