Rod Faulds is a former museum professional and educator. As an undergraduate he studied photography and printmaking. He holds an MA in Exhibition Design and a Certificate in Museum Studies from California State University, Fullerton. He is the former Director, University Galleries at Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton.

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Beginning in 2009 after a 30-year hiatus from image-making Faulds began to employ digital photography to create abstract works caught somewhere between photography and painting. Initially these photo-based art works blended hundreds of photographic images into gridded patterns of light and color. More recently fewer images are combined, collaged and montaged to create bolder images that conflate figuration and abstraction. Creating gritty or confounding abstractions from overlooked construction sites or other everyday domestic situations drives Faulds more than employing photographs to narrate, depict or deceive, yet photographic veracity plays an important role.

 

Faulds career as a curator, exhibition designer/producer has provided a strong critical approach to his now habitual image making. While a good deal of the image making continues through the camera and computer, a nascent studio practice is emerging that employs collage and assemblage to create display situations or installations that both engage and subvert his long experience of presenting art in gallery environments.

 

In 2014 a one-person exhibition at the Hollywood Art & Culture Center provided the opportunity to present selections from the Surf Works series in a unique wall installation. More recently the group exhibition Polyopia at Delray Beach’s Art Warehouse provided a sizeable corner space with two walls, one of which he covered wall paper style, with pendaflex folders providing a backdrop for three of the six framed works included in the exhibition. In 2022 Faulds created an ambitious installation for a one-person exhibition "Hybrid Detritus" at Miami Dade College, Padrón Campus. Maps, re-purposed coffee cups, found fabric and a wall of collages were combined with 15 ink jet prints mounted on pendaflex folders.

 

Beginning in 2009 Faulds began exhibiting his work publicly. In 2014 his work was featured in a one-person exhibition at the Hollywood Art and Culture Center, Hollywood, Florida. He has participated in numerous group exhibitions in South Florida as well as out of state exhibitions such as "Imagined Places, Inhabited Spaces" at the Art Gallery, Eastern Connecticut State University (summer 2022); and, collaborated with two Miami-based artists to create "Surplus Reiterations" in two large spaces at University Galleries, Florida Atlantic University, (fall 2022).

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• Following is a link to a video of Faulds' 2020 Artist Presentation for Art Salon, a series of artist talks produced by Ellie Schorr in association with the Armory Art Center, West Palm Beach.

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• Following is a link to a Studio Interview Video filmed in 2023 for an episode of Artists Connecting South Florida created by Etheard Joseph.

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• Rod Faulds exhibition design and curatorial work website:

http://wfaulds.wixsite.com/wrodfaulds

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