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| Athenian Ghosts Photograph Marino Colmano |
Perspective Gallery presents Emotive, an exhibit which
represents fifty years of artwork from photojournalist and photographer Marino
Colmano. Colmano’s photography is driven by his desire
to create and capture emotional content in his art. Colmano takes on the role
of the voyeur, often capturing poignant moments that exist within the humdrum
routine of everyday life, and creating nostalgic portraits of both people and
place.
Colmano has
won 30 international film festival awards throughout his ongoing career as a
photographer, producer, director, and director of photography, including the
Chicago International Film Festival’s Silver Hugo Award for his short film End of the Rainbow, which can be seen in
Perspective Gallery through August 6, 2016.
Marino won
the Silver Hugo Award in 1983 - the top award at the Chicago International Film
Festival - for his short film End of the
Rainbow. Based on a classic joke among musicians, the 15-minute musical
drama depicts the life of a down-and-out jazz musician who struggles to
remember the bridge to the song “Over the Rainbow.” Distraught after being
heckled by his audience, he dives headfirst off his balcony only to hear the
notes to his song in the siren of an ambulance.
Marino
Colmano’s illustrious career ranges from commercial photographic arts, creating
ads for companies like eHarmony to photographing iconic Hollywood stars such as
Dustin Hoffman and Brooke Shields. His commercial work is something that he
takes great pride in, as- in his words- “it is not often that an artist is able
to successfully make their work commercial enough to support themselves solely
through their art.” His work has spanned many different types of media, from
print advertising to television and cinema.
Throughout
his career Colmano has made live-action productions and promotional materials
for studios like MGM, Universal Pictures, TriStar, Disney, and Warner Brothers,
and has been the recipient of numerous awards, including 30 International Film
Festival awards and 2 Telly awards.
Colmano
worked as a photographer during the shooting of a PBS documentary called Life Without a look inside of San
Quentin Prison. It was through his work on this documentary that Colmano was
able to get his foot in the door of Hollywood. Photographs from this shoot can
be seen in the Emotive exhibit.
Marino
worked with Dustin Hoffman on the short film Straight Time: He Wrote It for Criminals, a documentary about the
making of Hoffman’s film Straight Time.
Colmano credits this documentary as an opening for his further artistic
ventures in Tinseltown. Since then, he has worked with numerous stars and a
wide variety of projects, including his time working on press for Oceans 11.
Colmano has
directed and photographed many award winning films throughout his career. His
films have been the recipient of numerous awards, among which include his most
award winning film- Reservoirs of
Strength: A Burn Recovery Film, a documentary film about burn
rehabilitation and the indomitable strength of the human spirit. This film was
the recipient of 10 awards.
Colmano’s
most recent project is a 21-part documentary series about the proposed 330 mile
long Mountain Valley Pipeline. The project follows the grassroots movement of
local activists of the New River Valley area and their efforts to block the
proposal. The documentary can be viewed on the Pipeline Documentary website and a “sneak preview” for the
feature length film will be shown at Perspective Gallery at 7 p.m. on June 23.
-Meaghan Curtis
Perspective Gallery Intern
SOVA Class of 2016 BFA
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