Interview with:Peter J. Sucy [peterjsucy]
CREATIVITY
 | Your mind is your work tool. How do you take care of it? It's probably my only muscle group that gets some regular exercise.
Nearly every image I create is prompted by the question, what if? Creating images to me is a problem solving activity, and problem solving is always good exercise. So I guess I try to take care of it by working as much as possible, and being open to where it may take me. |
| Who have your teachers been? Curiosity and Experimentation. (I'm a slow learner) |
DESIGN
| What is your specialty? Virtual Photography - Designing, lighting and rendering 3D scenes and abstract images for 3D lenticulars. |
| Which software applications do you most utilize in your work? Adobe Photoshop, Strata3D, Poser, Studio Artist and Lenticular Effects. |
ART
| What do you do? How do you define yourself as an artist? I guess in the most general way I'm a digital artist, because my tool is the computer. Digital photography, 3D modeling/rendering and 3D lenticular imaging are the primary mediums I'm currently experimenting with. |
| What role does technology play in your creative process? The computer and especially the save as and undo commands allow me to explore with the ability to get back to a previous place. I can take more risks and explore more options than I ever might with traditional media. I also can go back and work (assuming I haven't lost the original files) on a piece over long periods of time. Often I'll get to a point where I can't go any further on a piece at the time, so I save or set it aside and I'll come back to it days or even years later with fresher ideas, new tools or new techniques. Not many mediums allow you to do that. |
| Which artists do you admire and how do they influence your work? Painter Andrew Wyeth and nature photographer Eliot Porter would be the most influential of my favorite artists. Like me, both liked to explore the New England landscape and create images of the ordinary things they found. |
PHOTOGRAPHY
| Do you have an online gallery where one can view your photos? |
| For how long have you done photography? How did you begin? Having a father who was a photographic educator I suppose it was inevitable that I would get into photography. I considered a number of other careers including architect and race car driver before discovering animation in high school.
To study film it's pretty hard to avoid also taking some photography and while at RIT I rediscovered still photography. I realized I might actually have a decent eye. I've been photographing for about 30 years now.
In 1984 I bought a Macintosh with MacPaint and began my conversion to a digital artist. |
| Please list any exhibitions in which you have participated. 2008 - Digital Photos & Lenticular Images - Image City Photography Gallery - Rochester, New York
2003 - Clotheline Festival - Memorial Art Gallery - Rochester, New York
2003 - Photo-Synthesis - AAUW Gallery - Rochester, New York
2002 - MacWorld Digital Art Contest - Traveling Exhibit
1998 - Digital Images of Maine - Spectrum Gallery - Rochester, New York
1998 - FotoFusion '98 Exhibit - Cornell Museum - Delray Beach, Florida
1996 - Rochester Finger Lakes Exhibition - Memorial Art Gallery - Rochester, New York
1996 - RIT School of Photographic Arts and Sciences Community Show - S.P.A.S. Gallery - Rochester, New York
1995 - Bonaventure Gallery, St. Francis College - Fort Wayne, Indiana
1994 - Adobe Photoshop 3.0 CD-ROM - Digital Gallery
1994 - Digital Masters Show - Ansel Adams Gallery, San Francisco
1993 - Rochester Institue of Technology - Rochester, NY
1991 - Lansing Community College - Lansing, Michigan
(First showing of digital works.)
1985 - Finger Lakes Exhibition - Memorial Art Gallery - Rochester, NY
1984 - Maine Photographic Workshops National Print Competition - Ledel Gallery, Soho, NYC
1983 - Hahn Graphic Gallery - Rochester, NY |
| What is your favourite type of photography? Abstract nature photography and landscapes. I really love photographing rocks, as my portfolio will attest. The abstract forms, shapes and colors lend to infinite variety. Maine and Hawaii are two places that have great rocks, one old and one new. Unfortunately upstate NY has little exposed bedrock to work with. |
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