Brief Biography
Victor Filepp's photographic work is an eclectic mix of styles and genres. A self taught photographer, he explores art through the camera, and in the digital darkroom.
The journey to art began in the outdoors. He has immense respect for nature, and much of his work displays that through the use of landscape and nature photography. Victor grew up in a rural farming community of central New Jersey. Surrounded by farmland, he spent considerable time outdoors.
Mr. Filepp has had a career in the entertainment industry. As a stagehand and AV Technician he worked many theatrical, club, and arena shows, learning many of the crafts needed to get the show up. He also spent time singing for several bands, and briefly as a solo act.
In 2008 his early, and long interrupted, love of photography took a more serious direction. Since then his photography has been in numerous group shows throughout the area, including Honorable Mention in Shoreline Arts Alliance's IMAGES 2023 and 2022, and Hygienic Art's 2018 The f-Stops Here.
Currently Mr. Filepp lives in New London, Connecticut.
Artist Statement
Victor Filepp works in the invisible world of digital cameras and processing software. The images exist as ones and zeros until they are perceived by the eyes of the viewer. The image is then transformed into electrical impulses, carried to the visual cortex, and reinterpreted by the brain.
“There is a sense of satisfaction getting an image that says something to me on the screen, when it tells me what it wants to be. It’s no longer a “new” way of working, I feel at home here.”
Often projects become monochromatic, noirish, and moody. At other times the work is color landscapes, abstracts, and other creations. He is inspired by nature, human creation, newness, entropy, street art, and abstraction.
CV:
2023 | Zahn Gallery | Westbrook | Gallery One |
2023 | Lyme Art Association | Old Lyme | Images |
2023 | Alexy von Schlippe Gallery | Groton | Sense of Place |
2023 | Congregation Beth Shalom Rodfe Zedek | Chester | Group Show |
2022 | Rhode Island Center for Photographic Art | Providence, RI | Black, White & All the Grays Between |
2022 | Lyme Art Association | Old Lyme | Images |
2022 | Hygienic Art | New London | The f-Stops Here |
2022 | Guilford Art Center | Guilford | Gallery One |
2022 | Henry Carter Hull Library | Clinton | Group Show |
2022 | Zahn Gallery | Westbrook | Group Show |
2012 | Kunst-Matrix | Virtual | Solo |
2019 | PhotoPlace Gallery | Middlebury, VT | Intentional Spaces |
2019 | Guilford Art Center | Guilford | Images |
2019 | Hygienic Art | New London | The Crossing |
2019 | J. F. Slater Memorial Museum | Norwich | 72nd Annual Connecticut Artists Juried Exhibition |
2019 | Zahn Gallery | Westbrook | Gallery One |
2018 | Guilford Library | Guilford | Group Show |
2018 | Hygienic Art | New London | The f-Stops Here |
2018 | Mystic Museum of Art | Mystic | Photo Show 40 |
2017 | The Gallery at Firehouse Square | New London | Group Show |
2018 | John Lyman Center Art Gallery | New Haven | Gallery One |
2017 | Old Lyme Town Hall | Old Lyme | Group Show |
2018 | Guilford Art Center | Guilford | Gallery One |
2017 | Henry Carter Hull Library | Clinton | Group Show |
2016 | George W. Glennie Memorial Nature Salon | Merrimack | Annual Comptition |
2016 | J. F. Slater Memorial Museum | Norwich | 72nd Annual Connecticut Artists Juried Exhibition |
2016 | Gallery at Maple and Main | Chester | Group Show |
2016 | Gallery at Mercy Center by the Sea | Madison | Group Show |
2016 | Scranton Memorial Library | Madison | Group Show |
2016 | Spark @ The Hygeinic | New London | Group Show |
2016 | Congregation Beth Shalom Rodfe Zedek | Chester | Group Show |
2016 | Norwich Arts Center | Norwich | Photo 11 |
2016 | Hygienic Art | New London | The f-Stops Here |
2015 | Stevens Gallery in the Homer Babbidge Library UCONN | Storrs | Group Show |
2014 | Mystic Museum of Art | Mystic | 58th Regional Show |
2014 | Mystic Museum of Art | Mystic | Photo Show 36 |
2014 | The Gallery at Firehouse Square | New London | Group Show |
2014 | Connecticut Association of Photographers | Milford | Tops in Connecticut |
2013 | Scranton Library | Madison | Group Show |
2013 | Hygienic Art | New London | Juried |
2012 | Fresh Ayre Gallery | Old Lyme | Group Show |
2012 | Mystic Museum of Art | Mystic | Photo Show 34 |
2012 | Congregation Beth Shalom Rodfe Zedek | Chester | Group Show |
2011 | Studio 33 | New London | Group Show |
2011 | Scranton Library | Madison | Group Show |
2011 | Maritime Museum | New London | Group Show |
2011 | Lemon & Lyme Gallery | Old Lyme | Group Show |
2010 | Henry Carter Hull Library | Clinton | Group Show |
2010 | Gladeview | Old Saybrook | Group Show |
2010 | Studio 33 | New London | Group Show |