Photography: Charles Birnbaum
“My photographs explore the concept of Carl Jung’s collective unconscious and the shadows that reside within. My aim is to raise unresolved questions and encourages the viewer to closely examine the images to discern the indeterminate, to delve into the mysteries of the psyche and confront the darker aspects of their own being. The images represent the dark and repressed aspects of our personality that we try to hide from ourselves and others.“
Charles Birnbaum is an accomplished multidisciplinary artist. He is a self-taught photographer with an art degree in ceramics. For the past 16 years he has been exclusively working as a sculptor creating award-winning work, but Charles returned to photography during the pandemic as a way to express the unsettled times, ease the stress and process the heaviness of the life around him. Photographic success came within a few months when he was awarded 3rd prize in Still Life in the 2020 International Chromatic Awards. And within one year, his work has been featured in 12 gallery exhibitions and several of his photographs have been published: the International Chromatic Awards, Loosen Art and Dodho magazines. Charles has been awarded Honorable Mention for a Fine Art series – 2021 MonoVisions and most recently an Honorable Mention for the 2022 Monochrome Awards in the Fine Arts category. In 2022 he participated in 7 exhibitions with work currently on exhibit in Rome. Charles’s sculptures are in multiple private and public collections, including those of the design world luminary Hilda Longinotti, Ronald Kuchta, the renowned former Director of the Everson Museum of Arts, Jack Lenor Larsen the legendary textile designer and inventor and the creator of the Longhouse Reserve, the Kapfenberg Cultural Center of Austria, and the Museum of Modern Ceramic Art in Mino, Japan. He has a BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute and did graduate work at the Tyler School Art.
https://www.charlesbirnbaum.com
https://www.instagram.com/charlesbirnbaumart/
https://www.facebook.com/charlesbirnbaumart/
