简介

Jamie Gruzska is currently teaching advanced painting, but he is usually found working with photography here at Carnegie Mellon as faculty and administrator for that program. He has studied intaglio printmaking and painting in both undergraduate (Carnegie Mellon) and graduate school (University of Buffalo) and has been practicing photography since he was eleven. Gruzska has taught various painting, printmaking and photography courses here and elsewhere and specializes in photo-intaglio processes, including photogravure. Several years ago, he constructed a darkroom in his home, claiming it would be the “last analog darkroom built in the western world.” Happily, in this digital age, he finds that the demand for learning darkroom practice seems to be more alluring than ever. One of his favorite books is the Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt and he quotes from it often. He continues a collaboration with the Vermont-based sculptor Michael Singer in generative photo-intaglio prints, started in 1991. Gruzska has exhibited at non-profit spaces/museums and has received a number of awards, including a Pennsylvania Council for the Arts Grant and a Vermont Studio Center fellowship. He recently exhibited in No Legs, Alogon Gallery, Chicago and Art of the State: Pennsylvania, State Museum of Pennsylvania.