Artist Statement

“I am a visual artist working in the expanded field of photography, where the boundaries between traditional and experimental practices blur and intersect. My work moves fluidly between lens-based and cameraless photography, employing each approach as a distinct language for exploring both the natural world and the intrinsic properties of light-sensitive materials themselves. By frequently crossing between analog, alternative, digital, and experimental processes—often within a single work—I treat photography not as a fixed medium but as a malleable territory for investigation.

At the heart of my practice lies an attempt to record something beyond mere documentation: an impression, a residue, an inescapable essence of what once was. My work concerns itself with the invisible forces through which matter transforms—the constant state of flux in which all organic material exists. Whether through chemigrams that record chemical reactions directly on photographic paper, or through prolonged exposures that compress time and light, I seek to make visible the unseen processes of change itself.

What compels me is not the fixed moment but the process of transformation—the way a leaf’s chemistry decays, the way light shifts through atmosphere, the way silver crystals respond to their environment. These observations are compounded by an acute awareness of interconnectedness: how environment shapes nature, how nature modulates light, how light reveals and conceals in equal measure. In my practice, these elements are inseparable, each informing and altering the others in a continuous cycle. It is a collaborative process where I am merely the facilitator.

For me, beauty and truth are not separate concepts but intertwined threads in a larger tapestry. It is in their braiding—in the space where aesthetic experience meets fundamental reality—that I search for subtle transformations and transcendental qualities. My photographs become evidence of transitional states, documents of becoming rather than being. They acknowledge the evolving space between what is seen and what is felt, between the material and the ephemeral, between the moment of exposure and the slow revelation of the developed image. It is this evolving space that I seek to honor and encapsulate in my work.”

About Bruce Dunbar

Bruce Dunbar’s photographic prints explore the relationship between natural phenomenal, plants, fungi, and light sensitive surfaces. He uses alternative and experimental photographic processes to visualize the transformations of materials interacting with light.

Dunbar received an MFA in Visual Art from Lesley University in Cambridge, MA. He received an MA in Photography from New York University and a BS from Boston University. His work has been exhibited at venues such as the Katonah Museum of Art, the Hammond Museum and Japanese Stroll Gardens, Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum, CJG Projects, The Halide Project, Silvermine Galleries, and Chroma Fine Art Gallery.

Previous solo exhibitions include Intertwinings at ArtWorks Gallery, Norwalk, CT; Nudes Next Door at CJG Projects, NY, NY; Ceteris Paribus at Silvermine Galleries, New Canaan, CT; and Endangered & Re-envisioned: Iconic Landmarks and Interiors at Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum, Norwalk, CT.

In 2023 and 2025, Dunbar’s photographic work was published in Back to Basics I and Back to Basics 2, publications by Sustainable Darkroom. In 2026 his seventh solo exhibition What Stirs Below, What Shines Above will open at Rye Arts Center in Rye, NY. He currently lives and works in South Salem, New York where he is an adjunct Professor of Photography.

Learn more about Bruce at brucesdunbar.com | Follow Bruce’s work at on IG: @brucesdunbar

Gallery B

Gallery B is a gallery space that offers emerging artists the opportunity to have a solo exhibition of their work. Our intention is to promote the professional development of local and regional artists in our community.