Brief Biography
Dolores Glover Kaufman has a B.S. and M.S. from the
Cleveland Institute of Art and Case Western Reserve University. She taught
Art for over ten years and was a lecturer in Photography at Case Western
Reserve for three. She has been showing her work in regional, national, and
international shows since the late 1970's and most recently was included in
shows in New York City at the Cork Gallery, Lincoln Center and the
Touchstone Gallery in Washington, D.C. Regionally, her digital photo
collage, Day Into Night, won Best of Show at the Tampa Gallery of
Photographic Arts. Her work is currently featured on the MOCA (Museum of
Computer Art) website and was included in an essay by J.D. Jarvis entitled,
Toward a Digital Aesthetic. She believes that the computer is a tool that
brings new and unique creative possibilities to the graphic arts.

Artist's Statement
As a photographer with a fine arts background I was always
interested in what lies beneath surface appearances: by what 'else' things
can be besides the obvious or utilitarian; in fact, I love to take
utilitarian objects (such as desk accessories, cleaning supplies, bathtubs,
or paint rollers) and turn them into Art. By using the computer as a tool of
transformation I can delve much deeper into the hidden meanings and
associations just waiting to be revealed. Taking one of my photographs as
"parent" I can give birth to a series of "child" images that I call
transmutations. Transmutations are not simply changes or distortions but,
rather, they represent a conversion of one thing into another. An image that
served one expressive or utilitarian purpose (sometimes advertising) ends up
serving completely different aesthetic ends or evokes a completely different
"meaning". Sometimes the results are whimsical, playful, and decorative
while others are contemplative, introspective, and personal. Some contain
elements of both, which might only be revealed after repeated viewing. Many
of them refer to, or spring from, the experience of being female because
that is my fundamental experience. But the process itself is an experiential
one, a kind of collaboration between myself and the computer. It is a dance
between eye, mind, memory, psyche, and software. What is so exciting and
addicting is that the results are unpredictable yet completely controllable,
and while I don't start with an idea, I invariably find one. But, most of
all, it is a process of discovery in which what is discovered is myself, and
it is my hope that the viewer might share in that process as well.

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