Jon Horvath’s finely distilled photographs of everyday items evoke a meditative hush. His ongoing series, “Wide-Eyed,” embraces what he calls “photographic wandering,” exploring the complexity and intangible essence of the world around us. Training his lens on everything from clouds and abandoned vehicles to traffic cones and brooms, he creates pictures with a surreal quality of stillness, and often arranges them to spark surprising connections between the images.
Horvath is an interdisciplinary artist routinely employing systems-based strategies within transmedia narrative projects. His work has been exhibited internationally in solo and group shows and is currently held in the permanent collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Haggerty Museum of Art, along with the Midwest Photographers Project at the Museum of Contemporary Photography. Horvath currently teaches in the New Studio Practice program at the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design.
