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| ARTIST | Rocky Schenck | ||||||||||
| Rocky Schenck was born in Austin, and was raised at a ranch outside of Dripping Springs, Texas. At age 12, Rocky began studying oil painting, having been greatly influenced by the romantic landscape paintings and portraiture work of his great-great grandfather Hermann Lungkwitz (1813-1891) and great-great uncle Richard Petri (1824-1857), both German immigrants and artists who moved to the Texas hill country in 1851. In his early teens, Schenck began a lifelong interest in motion pictures and photography. He began writing, directing and photographing low-budget experimental films. A self-taught photographer, he honed his photographic skills while taking production stills on the sets of his movies. After 12 years at Dripping Springs School and a year and a half at North Texas State University (where he was an art major), he quit college and moved to Los Angeles. In 1987, a gallery owner in New York discovered Schenck’s work and gave him his first solo exhibition, followed by a second exhibition in 1990. Both shows were well received and since then Schenck has continued to show in galleries around the world. His work is now included in many prestigious museums including the Wittliff, home to the largest collection of his photographs. His first publication is Rocky Schenck: Photographs (UT Press, 2004), the seventh book in the Wittliff Gallery Book Series. Schenck lives in Hollywood, California. |
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