Rein Nomm is an artist and visual explorer who uses the camera to capture new and often experimental visual ideas. His work has evolved from recording the beauty and variety of the external world as it presented itself to creating his own photographic subjects, as evidenced in his recent “Folds in Space” and “Fluid Moments” series. Nomm's work embodies the stylistic undercurrents of Expressionism, Abstract Expressionism, Dada, Conceptual Art and Minimalism; as well as reflecting his Northern European roots and the influences of a formal graduate education in art history and philosophy.
His photographs have been displayed or published by a variety of organizations including: the Museum of the Cherokee Indian, the BBC Collective Gallery; Boletin del Instituto Andaluz del Patrimonio Historico (PH 60) in Seville, Spain; Green Hills Literary Lantern, Detroit Free Press, File Magazine, Flak Photo, the permanent collection of the Meteor Photo Gallery, and the Agitatto Gallery in Geneva, Switzerland, which also represents his work throughout Europe.
Nomm has been honing his photographic technique and refining his aesthetic sense for over 35 years. He has worked as a professional photographer, off and on, for the past 18 years, undertaking assignments as diverse as architectural photography, executive portraits, special events and product packaging. He also has taught art history and philosophy at various colleges and universities in Michigan and was chairman of the Humanities Core Program at Duns Scotus College in the 1970s. Nomm has two Master of Arts degrees, one in Humanities (with a focus on art history and aesthetic theory) and the other in Philosophy from Wayne State University.
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