Ron Moultrie Saunders
Of This Earth, 2015
Estimated Value: $1,800

Photogram sepia-toned gelatin silver print
20 x 16 inches
Framed 29 x 25 inches
Edition Variation 1/5
Signed, on front
Donated by the artist.

I create photograms: photographs that are made without the use of a camera. This 19th century process has an immediacy, rawness, and truth that is not found in images created with a camera. I layer natural and man-made elements such as water, plants and rope on the surface of silver-based photographic paper. The paper is exposed to light from an enlarger to create a shadowy silhouette image.

This artwork collages my feet with a leaf and speaks to the spirit of life, my interconnectedness to nature and my firm placement on this Earth.

About the Artist:
Ron Moultrie Saunders

Ron Moultrie Saunders, a co-founding member of the 3.9 Art Collective, is a San Francisco based photographic artist, landscape architect and teacher. He is being commissioned by BART to create artwork for the Market Street Canopies in San Francisco and for 19th Street Station in Oakland, CA.

His art work is in the San Francisco Arts Commission Civic Art Collection for projects he completed for the Bayview Linda Brooks-Burton Branch Library, Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, Laguna Honda Hospital, and Public Utilities Commission New Headquarters in San Francisco. Saunders is also the recipient of an Individual Artist Grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission.

He was commissioned to create works for VMware, Inc. in Palo Alto, CA and Dallas, TX in 2013, and for The San Francisco Travel Association (formerly SF Convention and Visitors Bureau) new offices. His art has been exhibited throughout the US including solo shows “The Secret Life of Plants” at San Francisco International Airport and Corden Potts Gallery, San Francisco, CA, and group shows “Self:Scape” at Middlesex County College, New Jersey(2012), “Exposed: Today’s Photography/Yesterday’s Technology” (San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art), and “Measure of Time”(Oakland Museum of California at City Center). His work is published in several books including “Self Exposure: The Male Nude Self-Portrait,” “From Art to Landscape,” and INPHA 3 (International Photography Annual). He was an artist-in-residence at STAR (Shipyard Trust for the Arts) in the Hunter’s Point Shipyard in San Francisco and at Kala Art Institute. His studio is located at Minnesota Street Projects in the Dogpatch neighborhood of San Francisco.

Website: ronmsaunders.com
Instagram: @ronmsaunders