Derek Samaha is a self-taught Toronto-based photographer with a decade of experience. He has a passion for shooting cinematic moody scenes with dramatic lighting that share common themes of the human experience or tap into sci-fi/fantasy worlds and lean into some form of tension or suspense.
With artistic methods, narrative or color application, the artists in this group exhibition are pushing the envelope as they "Challenge the Norm." Speaking artists: Trudy Borenstein-Sugiura, Bréa Corcoran, Hannah Cole Dahar, John Diephouse, Alec MacLeod, Carrie M. Nixon, Margaret Vaughan, Brian Wagoner, Debra Woodward
Reinhard Reitzenstein studied at the Ontario College of Art, Toronto, 1968-71. He has held over one hundred solo exhibitions and participated in over 300 group exhibitions throughout North and South America and abroad. More than a dozen public art commissions along with as many private commissions have been completed. Reinhard's work is represented in over 50 public and corporate collections internationally.
He has been an instructor in sculpture and interdisciplinary studies since 1980 and is currently the Director of the Sculpture Program, SUNY, Buffalo, NY (USA).
