Visiting Assistant Professor of Photography
Contact Information
- Office: 909 Thayer Hall
- Phone: 412-392-4312
- Fax: 412-392-3917
- Email: sgrebinski@pointpark.edu
Education
- M.F.A., Photography, The University of Pennsylvania
- B.A., Film Studies, University of Pittsburgh
- Certificate, Russian and Eastern European Studies, University of Pittsburgh
Courses Taught
- Introduction to Black & White Photography
- Color Photography
- Alternative Processes
- Experimental Black & White Photography
- History of Photography II (1960-present)
- Photographic Bookmarking
- View Camera
- Photographic Art Marketing
- Senior Thesis
Background
Stephen Grebinski is a photographer coming to Point Park University from Philadelphia. Interested in the narrative potential of photography, his work in drawing, photography and collage explore issues of history, memory and loss. Inspired both by Soviet cinema and an upbringing in the industrial Midwest, the work creates a stagnating but beautiful world, a way perhaps of both redeeming and of asserting the power of the lost — a sublime wrought by introspection.
Grebinski did an artist residency at Frank Mohr Instituut in the Netherlands in 2010, and was Speigel Fund Teaching Fellow at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia from 2009-11.
Curriculum Vitae
Professional Membership
- Society for Photographic Education
Selected Artistic Works
- Defekty, Artist book, shown at Printed Matter, New York City, 2012
- Chlopak, Artist book, shown at Printed Matter, New York City, 2011
- Individual Retail Sale, Future Tenant Gallery, Pittsburgh, Pa., 2009
- Here: The Site Photography of Stephen Grebinski, The Kimbo Gallery, Pittsburgh, Pa., 2008
Research Interests
- Vernacular Photography
- Memory, History
- Conceptual Art
- Early German Photography
- Photography, Intimacy and Technology
- Decorative Arts
- Printmaking
- Art & The Internet
- Soviet Cinema
Selected Publications and Presentations
- "Convenient Histories: Josef Stalin and the Soviet Myth of Creation," East Meets West Research Symposium, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pa., 2008.
- "Convenient Histories: Josef Stalin and the Soviet Myth of Creation," Case Western Reserve University National Art History Symposium, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, 2008.
- "The Quotidian and the Horrific: Filmmakers use of the Everyday in Holocaust Cinema," East Meets West Research Symposium, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pa., 2007.
Selected Awards and Honors
- Penn Design Travel Grant, 2010
- ICA Speigel Fellowship, 2010
- Pennsylvania Commonwealth Arts Grant, 2009
- University of Pittsburgh Provost’s Grant, 2009