David Stephenson: Domes & Vaults
Overview
In David Stephenson’s gorgeous photographs of the soaring vaulted and domed ceilings of Gothic Cathedrals, the artist explores the architecturally sublime in striking detail and kaleidoscopic geometric structures.
David Stephenson was born in 1955 and received a MFA at the University of New Mexico. Stephenson has had solo exhibitions at the National Gallery of Victoria, the Cleveland Museum of Art, and the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery. His work is represented in collections including, the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris, the National Gallery of Australia, the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, the George Eastman House, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art.
Works
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Dome #26011, Santa Maria dell Assunzione, Arricia, Italy, 1997
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Dome #21704, Salon des Embajudores, Alcazar, Seville, Spain , 1997
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Dome #23209, Temple Church of Mary, London, England, 1997
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#66201, Nave, St. Anne, Annaberg-Bucholz, Germany, 2008
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Dome #7704, Santa Maria della Carmine, Pavia, Italy
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Dome #27912, Mosque of Ahmed I ("Blue Mosque"), Istanbul, Turkey, 1997