By: Edir Coronado
Berkeley Heights Resident, Miron Abramovici is an engineer by training, former professor at Columbia University, researcher at Bell Labs, and even wrote a computer engineering textbook. Most people would agree that Miron has had a successful and fulfilling life, but about eight years ago when Miron retired from his engineering career, he ventured outside his engineering world and into the world of art. Discovering his inner artist, Miron proceeded to teach himself the art of photography and the results have been quite impressive.
Almost immediately after Miron began expressing his artistic side through photography, he began to earn many awards including the 2009 Fine art Photography Competition. The Fine Arts Photography awards are judged by a panel of industry professionals. Winners of the of the awards are given the title of either Professional Fine Art Photographer of the Year, or Amateur Fine Art Photographer of the Year, given cash prizes, have their artwork showcased, and given international publicity. In January 2011 Miron was awarded the NJ Artist of the Month; and then had one of his photos selected as Kodak Picture of the Day, which was then put on display on Time Square in August 2011, for people from all over to see. This year Miron had the honor of putting one his artworks on display when the Curatorial Assistant of the MOMA chose one of his images to be presented at the Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition Gallery, a non-profit organization with the goal of showcasing emerging artists and allowing easy access to modern art.
Miron most recently had his “Water Fall Colors” licensed by the Hilton Brooks Hills Resort in Oak Brook, Illinois for a 72″x48″ photo, which will be mounted in the hotel next month. The art being displayed at the resort is a landscape photograph, but Miron doesn’t consider himself a landscape photographer, he instead prefers the world of portraits, abstracts, and surrealism, an avant-garde art and literature form that seeks to release the creative potential of the unconscious mind.
When Miron creates his art, he begins by walking with his camera and a bit of instinct and foresight of how the image will look once he transforms the photo using his image processing software. Miron plays close attention to an inner voice instructing him to click when he views something interesting, but he explains that interesting isn’t just something nice or beautiful, it has to have a distinct and unusual quality to it.
More recently Miron has tried his creativity with sculptures and has had a curator from San Francisco select one of his sculptures for an exhibit at the Barrett Art Center in Poughkeepsie, NY. Miron has this to say about his artwork “I believe art needs no explanation, creating art brings me bliss,” and added this about art in general “Good art is something that talks to my soul and brings me joy,” an emotion he hopes to invoke in others.
(above) Miron Abramovici’s “Water Fall Colors”. “This image, showing fall leaves reflected in water, has an impressionistic quality, in the sense that the blur caused by the water movement makes it look like an impressionist painting,” explains Miron about the image that will soon be displayed at the Hilton Brook Hills Resort.
