Bruce Dunbar is a visual artist working in the expanded field of photography. His work moves between lens based and cameraless photography to explore the natural world and the nature of light sensitive materials. He frequently works across processes and combines different processes from analog to alternative to experimental. His work with combining photographic processes and natural sources is an attempt at capturing an impression, an inescapable essence of what once was, the invisible force through which matter changes- the state of flux in which all organic matter is caught.
Currently based in the Lower Hudson Valley, Mr. Dunbar was born and raised in Connecticut. Mr. Dunbar holds a BS from Boston University, a MA in Photography from New York University and a MFA in Visual Art (Photography) from Lesley University.
He has been a photography instructor, teaching traditional, alternative, experimental and digital photography courses at the Silvermine School of Art in New Canaan, CT since 1998. In 2012, Mr. Dunbar became an adjunct professor of Photography at Western Connecticut State University. He has also conducted photography workshops for the Art Explorer Program at Weir Farm National Historic Trust in Wilton, CT, Rye Arts Center, Rye, NY, Guilford Art Center, Guilford, CT and The Center for Contemporary Printmaking in Norwalk, CT.
Mr. Dunbar has been an artist member of the Silvermine Guild of Artists since 1997. In addition to exhibiting his work at the Silvermine Galleries, his photographs and mixed media photography have been exhibited in numerous group and solo shows in Connecticut, Philadelphis and New York City including the Lockwood Matthews Mansion Museum, Katonah Museum, Chroma Fine Art Gallery, and CJG Projects.