collaborations
Common Ground, 2008 - ink jet on Moab Entrada paper 24” x 30”
FROM ZERO TO INFINITY
An ongoing collaborative fine art project between Victor Raphael and Clayton Spada exploring the Story of Everything. From Zero to Infinity, takes as its territory the space between science and the ineffable and uses the vehicle of art on this continuing journey that began more than 18 years ago. Space and time are malleable in this pictorial universe where ancient thought meets contemporary knowledge and spiritual icons converge with imagery culled from scientific photography.
Washington Monument Vortex Cloud, 2011 - ink jet on rag paper 22” X 30”
UNEXPLAINED PHENOMENA PROJECT
unexplained phenomena project is a collaboration between artists Victor Raphael and David Jordan Williams. The series includes images from around the world that both artists have captured and explores extraordinary mysterious encounters with the unknown. unexplained phenomena project hopes to elicit in the viewer the idea that we should not rule out the unexplained or the exceptional when considering what is real and what we know.
The Wall #1 (Mexico Wall), 2019 - Ink jet on rag paper 16” X 20”
TERRY BRAUNSTEIN & VICTOR RAPHAEL
The collaborative artwork of Terry Braunstein and Victor Raphael was motivated by a desire to create art in response to the political environment of the past few years. Four series are featured here; Climate Change, focusing on the world-wide crisis caused by rising global temperatures, The Wall, which reflects on how walls are both barriers to human connection and inhibit those escaping persecution, My Choice, dealing with a woman’s right to choose, and Lessons to be Learned, looking at the challenges and wonder of childhood.
Spiral Nebula with Ghost, 2002 - laser print with gold leaf , 4.5” x 9.25”
Jean-Pierre hebert & Victor Raphael
Victor Raphael and Jean-Pierre Hébert first met as exhibitors at the international SIGGRAPH conference in 1999, where they began a friendship and collaborative relationship that lasted almost two decades. Their first collaborative art making efforts were in 2001 and continued on through 2012. Hébert would transform Raphael’s digital files with his unique computational algorithmic systems and Raphael would illuminate Hébert’s prints and drawings with applications of gold/silver and other metal leaf, so Hébert would be surprised à la cadavres exquis.
18th Street Subway, 2008 - silver gelatin print with metal leaf 16” x 20”
BILL ARON & VICTOR RAPHAEL
Bill Aron is renowned for documenting Jewish communities around the world. The basis for the collaboration between Victor Raphael and Bill Aron has been for Raphael to transform Aron’s photographs with applications of gold/silver and metal leaf material, opening Aron’s images up to new interpretations. Four decades of Aron’s photography was reviewed to find the images that would be worked on. Raphael was especially interested in finding points of connection between their work.