Craig Dongowski

Fugitive Static, 2009, 5'x6', Oil pencil on wood.

Maoma, 2009, Oil pencil on wood.

“I am an artist working in multimedia technology while rooting it in the conventional practice of drawing. My work derives from investigations into the grey area between drawing and writing. The physical action of both practices has been a source of compelling curiosity for me. The relationship of the spoken and written word has led me to explore the connection between the drawn mark and the sound produced while inscribing.

The execution rate of these drawings is exceptionally slow. Visually and conceptually they are connected to and assimilate with geological time and sound waves. My working method is inverted: rather than responding to a sound that yields a pictorial result, I am responding to a visual (line) that yields a spectrographic result. I also see these works as internal expressions. The slow and obsessive nature of the process literally places me within the work at a microscopic (microphonic) vantage point.”

Craig Dongowski obtained his B.F.A. at Millikin University in Decatur, Illinois, and M.F.A. University of South Dakota, Vermillion, South Dakota. He is an artist living and working in Atlanta since June 1999. He has taught painting and drawing full-time at Georgia State University becoming a permanent faculty member in fall 2001. During the summer of 2001, he presented a fragment of a film and soundtrack he is involved in making, titled The Wisdom Connected with Children Freezing to Death. This film was shown at the Raymond Lawrence Gallery in Atlanta during the month of August 2001. Prior to his move to Atlanta, Dongoski lived and worked in Boston since 1991 where he was on the permanent faculty at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. He has been very active in exhibiting in the United States and in Europe, Further involvements include organising outreach programs such as the International Print Symposium in Boston and co-curating a major exhibition and print exchange for the First Africus Biennial in Johannesburg, South Africa. Dongoski’s work is a continuous and ongoing exploration of the self.

Artist Website http://drawingvoices.com/index.php

Georgia State University Faculty Website http://www2.gsu.edu/~wwwart/art_design/3274.html

Caladan Gallery Website http://www.caladangallery.com/v2/thumbnails.php?album=784