Artist Digest: John Chiara

John Chiara
Artist Digest
Conversations
- "For my work, I'm not really interested in the depiction of the place, I'm interested in the memory"
  
  John Chiara discusses his images of San Francisco, with views of the Oakland Bay Bridge and the Golden Gate Bridge, commissioned by Pier 24 Photography.
- "... making the work and responding to it. That’s where my ideas generate. That’s where my imagination gets its ground or gets grounded in."
  
  John Chiara interviewed by Jim Casper at Paris Photo 2017.
Works
- John Chiara
  Bay Panel, 2020
  6 Camera Obscura Ilfochrome Photographs, Unique
  56.5 x 287 inches, framed
  
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- John Chiara
  Traverse Martin Luther King, Treasure Island, 2023
  Camera Obscura Ilfochrome Photograph, Unique
  56 x 47 inches, framed
  
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- John Chiara
  Carolina: Traverse: John F. Kennedy, 2022
  Camera Obscura Ilfochrome Photograph, Unique
  56 x 47 inches, framed
  
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- John Chiara
  SFFD Avenue of 10th, Treasure Island, 2023
  Camera Obscura Ilfochrome Photograph, Unique
  56 x 47 inches, framed
  
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- John Chiara
  Avenue of the Palms on Treasure Island Facing Alcatraz, 2023
  Camera Obscura Ilfochrome Photograph, Unique
  56.5 x 47.5 inches, framed
  
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- John Chiara
  Avenue of the Palms at 9th Street, 2024
  Camera Obscura Ilfochrome Photograph, Unique
  56 x 47 inches, framed
  
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- John Chiara
  Cabrillo Highway at Pescadero Creek Road, Variation 10, 2016
  Camera Obscura Ilfochrome Photograph, Unique
  38 x 47.5 inches, framed
  
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- John Chiara
  Sommerville Road at Moore Road, 2020
  Camera Obscura Ilfochrome Photograph, Unique
  60 x 75 inches, framed
  
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- John Chiara
  Avenue of the Palms South Treasure Island, 2023
  Camera Obscura Ilfochrome Photograph, Unique
  57.5 x 66 inches, framed
  
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Critic's Corner
"A sincere interest in traditional methods builds upon that legacy to create something new."

Matthew Tedford on reviews Lands End: California to Larkin, John Chiara's 2017 solo exhibition at Haines.
From the Vault

Go location with John Chiara in San Francisco and experience his experimental photographic process, in this segment from KQED.
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Artist Digest: John Chiara

John Chiara

Conversations

"For my work, I'm not really interested in the depiction of the place, I'm interested in the memory"

"... making the work and responding to it. That’s where my ideas generate. That’s where my imagination gets its ground or gets grounded in."

Works

Critic's Corner

"A sincere interest in traditional methods builds upon that legacy to create something new."

From the Vault