DOUG DERTINGER

TRILOGY 2: STALKER (Сталкер)

Stalker (Сталкер) explores work from the Doug Dertinger’s 2000 to 2010 photographic archives. Named after Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1979 film, the images in Stalker navigate terrains where emptiness, silence, and light can become conditions of consciousness, where place can shift from environment to presence, wholly other, sentient and responsive.

Stalker is the second of three exhibitions derived from the artist’s archives. I Have Loved You for So Long (Il y a longtemps que je t'aime), 2025, utilized correspondence, ephemera, snapshots, and photographic works from 1991 to 2000, years when the artist was primarily in school. A future exhibition planned for 2027, Goodbye, Children (Au revoir les enfants), will explore his archives from 2010 to 2020.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Doug Dertinger is a photographer and educator living and working in Northern California. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and is in the permanent collections of the Princeton University Art Museum and St. Mary’s University Art Gallery, Nova Scotia. He holds a BFA in Fine Arts from Colorado State University and an MFA in Fine and Media Arts from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, and currently lives in Sacramento, CA where he is a Professor within the Design Department of CSU Sacramento.

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