Creating images is at the core of my being.  I create work  that gives me aesthetic pleasure, and challenges me intellectually.  My work is informed by collage and assemblage—an aesthetic that creates something new out of existing, disparate objects—and by filmmaking, which is, essentially, obtaining and assembling the parts necessary to make an aesthetically coherent whole. 

In the natural world, and in the world under the hand of man, I find visual rhythms.  These rhythms are defined by many elements: by the order of space and plane; by line and form; by texture, by color, by juxtaposition and by the specific nature of light.  I find these rhythms exciting and pleasing, and I seek to express them in my work. 

The viewer completes the process by interacting with the work through their interpretation of it.  The exercise for me, then, is to create a visual experience that captures viewers; compels them to consider the image; allows the image to become their own perceptual personal property.

In this body of work, the image transcends the elements that make it up.  The elements are, for me, very personal—photographs I have made, objects of affection and fascination, old family pictures, places I’ve visited.  But most importantly, the graphic nature of the elements must work together.  Photography, often considered an art of visual “truth”, provides a backbone to the subjective nature of the work.  There is an intended dislocation between the gravity of the photo-realistic elements and the non-objective image.  The intent is to draw viewers into the composition—to have them see what’s inside the image.  Viewers must find their own way, using the resonance of their life-experience as a guide.

Bill Bishop prints (edition of 25) are available in two sizes:

Paper size 11"x14"    $250

Paper size 16"x20"    $400

* Larger size are available for the following prints:

First Supper  39" x 31" $900; The Memory of Flowers 39" x 31" $900; Rob's Spring 32" x 40" $900; Winter 5 16" x 19.6" $500

Airship Dreamt 17" x 20" $750; Autumm Lesson 40" x 17" $750; Lingua Mancino 17" x 37" $750 (these prints not available in 16"x20")

Mujer Azucar (triptych) only available in 35 1/2" x 17" $750 (not available in 11"x14" or 16"x20")

All images are archival pigment prints, signed, titled and editioned by the artist.

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