White Room: A.J. Bocchino

A.J. Bocchino installs a selection of dozens of photographs taken over the past six years. Without searching for a particular subject, Bocchino photographs objects and places of interest, sometimes returning repeatedly to the same site to record its changes over time. While the artist originally did not intend to show the photographs as a group, common formal and conceptual threads between the pieces made him decide to present them as an installation. He cites these reoccurring themes as “the passage of time, fluidity of context and meaning, a focus on transformation, and the accidental and undiscovered.” Bocchino works in other two- and three-dimensional media, including wood and glass sculpture and digital drawing. He has had a solo exhibition at Urban Glass Factory in Brooklyn (2002) and holds a MFA from Tyler School of Art and a BFA from Tulane University.