Bio
Ted Rigoni’s contemporary photographic art focuses on natural settings, urban light, and athletic competition. His passion for the emotive stories found within lonely, abandoned and forgotten places is expressed through digital images of the crenelated trunks of tightly packed Aspen, rarefied golden dust and the slanted moonlight of the dunes within the Mojave Desert, the slowly rising superheated steam emanating from geologic-driven processes, fog-shrouded mysteries hidden deep within moody rain forests, and the abandoned and neglected ruins of our forgotten works, recognizing that nature and our imaginations tell stories of what once was and may still be.
His solo exhibitions include Emotive Dominion, Sasse Museum of Art, Pomona, CA (Jan/Feb 2025); Bygone Patterns, Los Angeles Art Association, CA, 2023; and Oxidized, Auburn, WA, 2022. Select Group Exhibitions in 2024 include The Next Big Thing, Studio Channel Islands, CA; heART, Tustin Area Council of Fine Arts, CA; Street + Night + Architecture, Black Box Gallery, Portland, OR; Botanicals, Artist Space Gallery, New York; Thresholds, Los Angeles Center of Photography (honorable mention), CA; Illuminated, The Gold Medal Exhibition, curated by California Art League; and Perceive Me, Brewery Art Walk, Los Angeles. Recent reviews and essays include Metals from the Mojave photo exhibit draws deep truths from what pioneers left behind, Auburn Reporter, Location, 2022; Lassen Volcanic National Park Flip Book, published by National Park Photography Expeditions, Chino Hills, CA, 2021; Journeys in Photography, Samy’s Camera YouTube Series, Costa Mesa, CA, 2021; Oxidized, Dodho Magazine’s Call #14, Barcelona, Spain, 2020.
“A Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.”
— Ambrose Bierce