David Husom
medium: photography
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Contact information
W8484 162nd Ave.
Hager City, WI 54014
Phone Number: 715-792-5556
Email Address: david@husomandrose.com
Web site: www.husomandrose.com/david
Artist statement
David Husom is currently working on a series of photographs documenting the vernacular architecture of the small towns in the Upper Mississippi River valley. In particular the series explores the places of community gathering: churches, taverns, town halls and organization meeting halls. He uses a large format 4X5 camera and color film, but makes digital prints of his images.
Biography
David Husom has exhibited throughout the US and in Japan, including the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Burden Gallery NY, Tubac (Arizona) Art Center, Sioux City Art Center (Iowa), FISEA at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, and Winona State University. One-person exhibits include E. J. Bellocq Gallery Louisiana Tech University, Portland (Maine) Art Center and Southern Light Gallery in Amarillo, TX.
His photographs are in the collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, George Eastman House, Weisman Art Museum, Minnesota History Center, 3M and the Federal Reserve Bank. He has been published in Aperture magazine and Architecture Minnesota. Husom is a frequent conference speaker, including the Society for Photographic Education New Orleans, Reinventing the Photographer in Chicago, SGO - Digital Photography in the 90's in Minneapolis, and ImageWorld Orlando. He has done visiting artist programs at a number of colleges including the University of Wisconsin in Green Bay, the Minneapolis College of Art & Design, the Milwaukee College of Art & Design, and Wright State University in Ohio.
He teaches photography and new media at the University of Minnesota and lives in rural Wisconsin, overlooking the Mississippi River.

















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