Artist: Kurt Weston

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Artist's Statement
Kurt Weston is an award winning, legally blind artist who focuses much of his work examining how the mediation of sight through prosthesis can serve as either enhancement or obstacle to engaging with perceptual reality. Weston finds that while low vision magnification devices and assistive technologies are of great benefit in helping him negotiate his vision loss, they tend to be cumbersome and awkward to use. The vision prosthetics can offer a very limited visual field which can create a visual deficit or deformation of reality. Weston’s reality is based in his perceptual skills and nature of his limitation. He sees the world much like it appears in an impressionist painting. By utilizing these very distinctive visual aspects, Weston, creates new views and perspectives which recontextualizes for both the sighted and blind communities the veery nature of seeing. Weston’s current artworks are inspired by his desire to increase accessibility for totally blind and visually impaired viewers of two-dimensional art, as well as, increasing awareness for the sighted viewer. Weston is generating a new aesthetic which is interactive, informative and compelling.

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Kurt Weston

Kurt Weston is an award winning legally blind photographer residing in Mission Viejo, California. He received his MFA degree from California State University, Fullerton in 2008. Weston’s work has been exhibited internationally and is in the permanent collection of the Houston Museum of Fine Arts and the Museum of Contemporary Photography. Weston, also was the recipient of the 2010 Arts Orange County Outstanding Artist Achievement Award which garnered him an interview on CNN for his art and advocacy. Weston’s work has spawned art exhibitions, interviews and articles. He has been featured in numerous newspapers, magazines and blogs and his work has been the subject of many academic abstracts and doctoral dissertations.

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