ARTIST STATEMENT

I create art with a camera. For 43 years I created art with a clarinet and performed professionally with a major opera orchestra. The years of music-making has left me with a vast well of memories and now I dive into this reservoir to make my photographs. My images explore the deep links between past melodies, childhood recollections, and my current realizations. Music, family, places and experiences intertwine, conjuring a visual tapestry. I like the fact that over time memories may not be accurate and therefore a photograph originating from a memory can be transposed into a transcendent setting. While these photographs grow from a deeply personal place, it is my goal to evoke a universal chord in the viewer.

BIO

Anthony Striplen is a San Francisco Bay Area-based artist whose work has been featured in PhotoPlace Gallery, SxSE Gallery and The Chateau Gallery. His work has been published in SHOTS photography magazine and the book, “Fill the Frame”, for the PhotoPlace Gallery exhibition. His work also appeared as the banner image for exhibition, “Fill the Frame” at PhotoPlace Gallery. Additionally, Striplen’s work is in private collections and has appeared in Lenscratch, a photography journal daily publication.

CURRICULUM VITAE

BORN

1957, Bakersfield, California

EDUCATION

1980 Bachelor of Music, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California

EXHIBITIONS and PUBLICATIONS

2026

“Night Out” and “The Wedding Reception”, The Narrative, group exhibition at The Chateau Gallery, New York, New York.

“Malibu Dream” The Surreal, group exhibition, The Chateau Gallery, New York, New York

“Stripes”, PhotoPlace Gallery, Filling the Frame exhibition book.

“Terra Femina”, SHOTS Magazine, WInter 2025/2026 Issue.

2025

“Rococo Variation” 40 over 40 group exhibition, SouthxSoutheast Photo Gallery, Molena, Georgia.

“Kiss” In the Nude Vol. 1, group exhibition, The Chateau Gallery, Louisville, Kentucky.

2024 - O.S.D. solo exhibition, Lafayette, Ca

2023

“Like Being Alone” The Love Exhibition, online group exhibition, Lenscratch Fine Art Photography Daily.

“Sunset on Cadillac Mountain”, The Favorite Photograph You Took in 2023” group exhibition online, Lenscratch Fine Art Photography Daily.

2022

PhotoPlace Gallery, “Rococo Variation”, Portrait: Self and Others, Middlebury, Vermont, group exhibition online.

2020

“Teddy Bear’s Quarantined Picnic” The Self-Quarantining Exhibition, Part 6, group exhibition, Lenscratch Fine Art Photography Daily.

2019

"Cascades” Your Favorite Photography of 2019, group exhibition, Lenscratch Fine Art Photography Daily.

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