Photographer Regina DeLuise

From the start, travel has been integral to DeLuise's creative process. Throughout her career, DeLuise has traveled to India and Nepal on a Guggenheim Fellowship, to Italy both to study and teach, and to Bhutan on a recent sabbatical. Although the destinations have varied, DeLuise has been moving in the same direction, desiring to roam toward the unknown and bowing to her subject through the lens of her camera. In the making, printing and exhibiting of her photographs, DeLuise's journey reflects what Nietzsche called "a long obedience in the same direction."
The photographic opportunities provided to her through grants, teaching and studying abroad are presented in this exhibition as a curiously continuous thread. The Italian light in its luscious saturation, the intoxicating scent of incense burning in a temple, finding herself alone on a Himalayan plateau-each of these experiences cleared her vision and opened her eyes. When finding herself in a place where she didn't speak the language but understood the people or where not knowing the terrain opened doors, DeLuise has had the unique opportunity to be truly in the moment.

                                                 >>>Regina DeLuise