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Vincent David Feldman

	Composition in Red, 1998, photo on paper, 28 x 22 inches

For the first time, photographer Vincent David Feldman presents a series he has been working on over the past ten years called Memento Mori. While inspired by funerary architecture the artist discovered in Scottish churchyards, both site and context have been eliminated in the prints, as it is not Feldman's intention for viewers of this work to enter the gallery as if it were a cemetery. Rather, Feldman is interested in the distillation of architecture in general and is searching for an understanding of the civilization that fashioned these monuments of stone and how these objects of permanence weathered the centuries. These ideas are all the more interesting when the architecture of mausoleums in question confronts and serves our own mortality. Mr. Feldman received his B.F.A. from George Washington University and his M.F.A. from Tyler School of Art of Temple University.