(Parma, Ohio, 1966 - )
From the series "Winter Was Hard"
2008
Digital inkjet print
11 3/4 x 17 1/2 in. (30.0 x 44.5 cm)
Collection of the Akron Art Museum
Gift of the artist
2011.4
Stephen Tomasko’s series Winter Was Hard features thoughtfully-composed, energetic images of flowering plants in spring bloom. Attempting to create photographs that are as much landscape paintings as they are straight photography, Tomasko imbues his work with a quality that is simultaneously decorative yet realistic, artificial yet lifelike. He has said that these images are intended as “photographic challenges to the senses”.