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2025 Ohio Artist Registry Juried Exhibition
Francis Schanberger
Dayton Ohio 45410 United States Home Phone: 6142829871 Birthday: November 2, 1965
Bio
Francis Schanberger has been photographing since fourth grade when he presented a homemade, long focal length pinhole camera as his science project. He received his Master of Fine Arts from the Ohio State University in 2002. He has been an artist in residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts (2005), Emmanuel College in Boston, Massachusetts (2011) and Vermont Studio Center in 2013. He has exhibited at Soho Photo in New York, the Houston Center for Photography, the Free University of Brussels, as well as COHJU Gallery in Kyoto, Japan.
Artist Statement
My most recent photography project involves collecting and organizing Styrofoam cups, plates and packing materials. Finding these objects depends on where I am walking, weather and the whims of our community’s consumption. Selection of them for photographic subjects depends partly on the degree degradation of the object. Plates and cups that have been flattened and fragmented by motor vehicles are trophies. Objects that have only recently been discarded are passed by with the hope that, on a return walk, the objects will be changed by time, pressure, and gravel. It is for this reason I am drawn towards photographing these discarded materials because they act as a palimpsest. The cups and their original function of serving and protecting food are lost over time. Their branding disappears from abrasion and their shape is lost to the pressure of a truck tire. During this process a story of their new existence is written over the old. Gravel marks are left, and pebbles imbedded. Tire tread marks are retained in the soft surface of the polystyrene. The very weathered objects take on a very paper like appearance that can neither support weight nor effectively insulate.