Harry Zeitlin

Born in Denver, CO, 1952

Creating art is often a long, brutal, lonely and unrewarding affair. For some, however, it's as inescapable as it is inevitable--almost genetically programmed into our very beings.
As I walk or sit or drive or even stand still, my eyes will lock on part of my immediate environment. I'll start to move around it a bit, seeing it shift from an isolated object from various perspectives to part of a pattern, a composition. Having worked so long at this, the underlying connections emerge and themselves become the object of my attention. And, having worked so long at this, I push to find ever more complex, yet ultimately simple webs of these connective forces. These re-resolve into the set of objects in front of me.
I do this all the time. I can't help it.
Then, I'll bring my camera "to work", to do this formally. With a library of work behind me, I intuitively/mentally sort these "lookings" into one that reveals something new, something glowing, something that points to the beauty of the ultimately unknowable, always-present, complex yet integral binding energy of our existence.
After that, it's just craft.
Harry Zeitlin, August 2008

Harry Zeitlin
5508 35TH AVE NE, Suite 205, Seattle, WA 98105
(206) 524-9740, hlzeitlin@aya.yale.edu, www.harryzeitlin.com

Born, Denver, Colorado 1952
EDUCATION (selected)

B.A., Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 1974.
Photography Studies with Edmund Teske and Robert Heinecken, 1977 - 1979.
Private studies in Sumi-e painting with Hisashi Ohta ("National Treasure of Japan"), 1980-1982.
Orthodox Rabbinic Ordination, 1996.
Director of Art is the Spiritual Workshops and Seminars, 1994 - present.

EXHIBITIONS (selected)
February 2010, Center for Fine Art Photography, Elements of Water, Fort Collins, CO
October 2009, Madden Museum, Windows to the Divine, Greenwood Village, CO
May 2009, Slifka Center for Jewish Studies, Yale University, New Haven, CT
September 2007 LACDA, Los Angeles, CA
September 2007 Las Vegas ArtExpo, Las Vegas, NV
July 2007 Madison Park, Seattle, WA
January, February 2007. Benham Gallery, Seattle, WA
April 2006 Or Hadash, Jerusalem, Israel
April 2006 Caf Flora, Seattle, WA
April 2005 Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
April 2003 Art-Cubic, Barcelona, Spain
December 1996 Anigrafix, Jerusalem, IsraelRead more