“You don’t make art, you find it" - Pablo Picasso
Artist Statement
Drawing from my experience as a jazz musician and architect’s son, my photographs emerge from improvisation and structure in everyday objects and spaces. By focusing on rhythm, movement, texture, shape, and form, I capture an evolving dance of contrasting elements, echoing the idea that ‘architecture is frozen music.’
I invite the viewer to engage from a new perspective, discovering order and rhythm while experiencing a sense of balance and calm in the mundane and often overlooked.
Bio
Matt Vacca is a Los Angeles and New York based fine art and architectural photographer. His fine art photography brings our attention to the marginalized beauty that we often overlook in the every day. Focusing on our daily surroundings, taking us past their utility and function, and showing us the beauty we so often miss. Vacca brings a modernist approach to the work, emphasizing material, technique, and the resulting abstractions, a celebration of photography's core tenets of light and composition. The final images are enlarged, asking the audience to engage with each scene from a new perspective while experiencing the fluidity, depth and form of each object.
Awards
2024 CUPOTY, Close-up Photographer of the Year 06 - 2nd Place, Studio Art
2024 International Photography Awards - 3rd Place, Fine Art, Abstract
2024 Beverly Hills Art Show - May, 2024 - 1st Place Photography
2024 Beverly Hills Art Show - May, 2024 - Best Art Display in show
2022 CUPOTY, Close-up Photographer of the Year 04 - 1st Place, Studio Art
2022 17th Annual Black & White Spider Awards - 1st Place, Still Life
2022 ND Awards - 3rd Place, Fine Art, Abstract
2022 6th Annual Chromatic Awards – 3rd Place, Abstract
2022 8th FAPA, Fine Art Photo Awards - Nominated, Abstract
2022 TIFA, Tokyo International Foto Awards - Silver, Fine Art
2022 MIFA, Moscow International Foto Awards - Bronze, Fine Art