ENTRY DESCRIPTION
These large-scale panoramic images of landmark Cleveland bridges were commissioned by Bidwell Projects for the inaugural exhibition of the Transformer Station. These works recall both the grandeur of 19th century American landscapes and the action painting of abstract expressionism. Wascovich used handmade pinhole panoramic cameras to capture the images and then manipulated the large-format paper negatives using a variety of media and techniques as they developed in the darkroom. Bridging Cleveland intends to evoke the historic majesty of the physical infrastructure of Cleveland and suggest the importance of spans yet to be crossed in the city's future.

AUTHOR
Vaughn Wascovich is an Associate Professor at Texas A&M University/ Commerce. He received his MFA at Columbia College Chicago and has more than twenty years experience as a commercial photographer as well as more than a twenty years teaching photography at the university level. He has participated in more than one hundred-fifty juried, group and solo exhibitions, and from 2004-20012 was a Visiting Scholar with the Harvard School of Public Health. In 2013, Professor Wascovich was the solo inaugural exhibition at the private museum, Transformer Station, In Cleveland, Ohio, and is included in Bidwell Projects permanent collection. He has won numerous awards in peer-reviewed exhibitions, was awarded the Gary B. Fritz Imagemaker Award for current research at the National Conference of the Society of Photographic Educators (SPE) in 2009, and in 2010 Professor Wascovich was awarded the Provost Award for Research and Creative Activity from Texas A&M University/Commerce. In 2013, Professor Wascovich was conferred the H.M. Lafferty Distinguished Faculty Award for Scholarship and Creative Activity by The Texas A&M University/Commerce Faculty Senate.

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