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Tilt Rock

Tilt Rock 14” x 14” Silver Gelatin print

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Artist Biography:
Sam Wang was born in Beijing, China, and grew up in Hong Kong. He came to the US after high school and attended Augustana College in Sioux Falls. After receiving an MFA in photography with a minor in painting from the University of Iowa, he joined the faculty at the School of Architecture at Clemson University in 1966. He taught graduate and undergraduate photography and “art with computer” and helped initiate the MFA-DPA program that prepared students for the animation industry. He retired from Clemson in 2006 as an Alumni Distinguished Professor of Art.
Sam’s art utilizes many photographic techniques and processes, including photo-silkscreen, platinum/palladium, gum bichromate, pinhole and “zoneplate”, and digital imaging. In addition to Clemson, he has taught workshops in photography and digital imaging at Penland School of Crafts, University of Oregon, Notre Dame University, Appalachian Environmental Arts Center, Nanjing Arts Institute, among others. His work is in the collection of numerous museums and educational institutions nationally.

 

 

Sam Wang

Portrait of Sam Wang

 

Clemson

 

Sam Wang's work is represented at: Beyond the Zone

 

 

About the Work:

“Since 1978 I have used various cameras that I constructed to produce round images that included the peripheral areas usually cropped off by cameras. The entire circular image captured by the wide-angle lenses resemble more closely to what our eyes see, the whole thing, so much so that the viewer might feel that they represent what the viewer’s own eyes saw and that he/she could enter and be a participant in the picture.


I have found that when one is willing to look, almost any subject can be transformed and become more than they first appear. The landscapes that I found significant were not necessarily important to others. More than a few times when I was out photographing, passersbys would scratch their heads and wonder aloud why I was photographing apparently nothing interesting, using an odd looking home-made camera.


As an artist and an educator, I am most concerned about perception. It is how one looks at the world, how one explores beyond the superficial, that’s important. Along the way a few images may result that offer viewers a similar sense of discovery, of wonder.”