Mallory Kates

For over twenty-five years, I worked in the world of multi-media production for business, industry, and entertainment and earned more than a dozen awards in the process. I strove to find visually innovative ways to bridge art and commerce. Later, I turned toward more personal narratives, creating private documentary projects for families. Through my Day In The Life photographic books, I captured intimate, everyday moments in order to celebrate the beauty of lived experience. During the COVID pandemic, limitations on close interaction prompted a shift away from my reality-centric work and allowed me the freedom to begin creating imagery that melded reality and dreams.

Today I consider myself a visual artist using photography as my springboard to creating collectible images.  I typically employ various in-camera and post-processing techniques such as multiple exposure, collage, and composites. As a further step toward producing more singular work, I’ve begun applying metal leaf to prints, resulting in one-of-a-kind pieces.  Less singular but equally different, are the wire constructions I create and then photograph into abstracts.  In addition, I still enjoy and work toward portraying people, places and things.