Amarillo native Phillip Periman has been exploring photography “compulsively” since 1989 and says his subject matter includes everything he sees: people, landscapes, street scenes, and whatever else shows up in front of his lens.
Those stellar photographs then tend to show up in collections far and wide – from the Amarillo Museum of Art to the Denver Art Museum, the Houston Museum of Fine Art, the Yale University Art Gallery, and numerous private collections.
Computer manipulated images meant to communicate the artist’s personal and varied experiences with epilepsy comprise a unique exhibit now on display in the Southern Light Gallery at Amarillo College.
The exhibit is called Measured Disorders and was created by Andrew Joseph Ortiz, an associate professor of art and history at the University of Texas at Arlington, who has dealt with the physical challenges of epilepsy for more than 30 years.
René West and Mark Penland have been creating collages ever since they could hold scissors, but on their present-day digital odyssey they don’t need scissors.
West, associate professor of photography at Amarillo College (AC), and Penland, a freelance photographer and photography lab manager at Tarrant County College’s Northeast Campus, are now creating art with Artificial Intelligence (AI).