Ted VanCleave
Photographer/Painter

Ted VanCleave grew up in rural Indiana and has lived in California since age 22. His abstract paintings and mixed media works have been exhibited and collected throughout the US and have received many honors and awards. In 2005, Ted devoted himself almost exclusively to photography. He?s transferred his use of abstract forms and bold colors from painting to photography seamlessly. Ted still creates abstract images, using buildings and flowers as the basis of form. He captures his subjects from very unique perspectives and saturates his building images with bold colors. His "Structure: The Los Angeles Series", released in 2006, was featured prominently in the international fine arts photography magazine, Eyemazing.

VanCleave's work was selected by Laura Rosenstock, Curator, The Museum of Modern Art, New York to appear in the Faber Birren Color Award Show and he was awarded Top National Honors from the prestigious National Watercolor Society. Featured interviews of VanCleave have received a worldwide audience on CNN among others.

"Ted VanCleave has captured the urban landscape of Los Angeles by focusing on the city's unique style of modern and postmodern industrial architecture. His photographs of the city?s architecture extend beyond representation and become brilliant, almost surreal, abstracts that juxtapose vibrant color and the geometry of the city's landscape.

VanCleave's color palette expertly plays with photography's unique ability to capture subtleties in light and shadow, adding a richness and narrative depth to his primarily abstract form". Metro Gallery, June, 2006

Ted is based in Los Angeles, CA.

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To find out more about Ted VanCleave, visit his web site at www.tedvan.com.