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Carl Rubino | @carlrubinophotography | carlrubinophotography.com

Commentary from Elizabeth Flinsch

Carl Rubino’s photograph is stirring in its simplicity and depth. A structure remains – sinking, but hanging on – despite its evident failure. What could read as ruin instead becomes a study in persistence. The image functions as metaphor without feeling forced, speaking to endurance, futility, and the human impulse to build against inevitability. Rubino allows this dock to hold its own meaning within the landscape, neither romanticizing nor condemning it. The result is a photograph that lingers, asking us to consider what it means to persist when purpose has already begun to drop below the surface.

ARTIST BIO

Carl is largely a self-taught fine art photographer who lives year-round in the Adirondacks of northern New York. He photographs primarily in his native location and the surrounding region. He constantly challenges himself to explore new ways to see and interpret what lies before him, following Thoreau’s expression that “It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.”

His work has been repeatedly featured as a portfolio winner and has been reviewed in Black & White Magazine. His photography has been published in Adirondack Life and Seven Days, Vermont. Carl has been exhibited in two-artist exhibitions at Lake Placid Center for The Arts. His photography has had solo exhibitions at VIEW, Northwind Fine Art and Point of View Gallery in northern New York; Legacy Gallery in Nyack, NY; SEABA, Shelburne Art Center, Lille Fine Art Salon, Designhaus and Brickels Gallery in Burlington, VT; and Diana Felber Gallery in the Berkshires, MA. He has been in juried and curated exhibitions at Sohn Fine Art and Lichtenstein Arts Center in the Berkshires of MA, and Smithy Pioneer Gallery’s Invitational Curated Photography Show: “Statement – “fifteen of the best photographers in upstate New York” in Cooperstown, NY. His work is included in a hardcover contemporary photography book, “The Pictorial List: Volume One – New York”, published in 2024.

His photography is in permanent collections of The Waskow Collection of Northern New England Museum of Contemporary Art (NNEMoCA) in Vermont and VIEW Arts in Old Forge, NY, and hangs on the walls of homes and businesses regionally as well as commercial locations such as the Hilton Hotel and medical offices and locations including Fletcher Allen Hospital and medical practices in and around the Burlington, VT area.

He has taught photography with Adirondack Photography Institute, Inlet, NY and Shelburne Art Center, Shelburne, VT and in his own classes at various NY and Vermont locations, and has led photography tours in the Adirondacks. He is largely self-taught but has attended numerous workshops and is deeply inspired and influenced by abstract painters and the work of other photographers.