Ted Victoria

From East End Arts

Raised in Riverhead, Ted Victoria still considers himself a Blue Wave. He briefly studied architecture before pursuing fine art at the State University of New York at New Paltz and at Rutgers University in New Jersey. While a student in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Victoria pursued an interest in printmaking, which led him to explore photographic silkscreen and photolithography. Visits to New York City exposed him to Pop art and the multimedia work of James Rosenquist and Robert Rauschenberg.  Victoria also knew Joseph Cornell's work; he saw examples at the Museum of Modern Art's "Art of Assemblage" of 1961 and at the Guggenheim Museum's retrospective of 1967. (cr: askART)

Ted Victoria is primarily known for mixed media wall pieces that incorporate the use of a lens light projection system similar to the camera obscura. Victoria incases objects within a box, the reflection of which is projected onto the gallery wall or the glass frame to create "live" images. His work is represented in the collections of Fonds National d'Art Contemporain, France; Indianapolis Museum of Art; the Forbes Collection, New York; Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas; Museo Tamayo, Mexico City; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Tasa Collection, Munich; MOMA, New York City; and many others. 

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