John Griebsch is an aerial photographer and pilot whose aerial landscapes depict natural and man-made landforms. His images of the American landscape have been made from his vintage Cessna 170, in which he has logged more than 250,000 miles. At present there are 300 images in his series of work, titled, AERIAS. Representation Iris Gallery, Boston & Great Barrington, Massachusetts, Aspen, Colorado Carrie Haddad Photographs, Hudson, New York The Art Registry, Washington, DC Chicago Art Source, Chicago, Illinois June Bateman Fine Art, New York, New York Estro Photographics, New York, New York Susan Spiritus Gallery, Newport Beach, California Museum Shows & Juried Shows 64th Rochester Finger Lakes Exhibition, Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, New York - 2013 Earth Through a Lens, (Award Winner), Palm Springs California- 2011 62nd Rochester Finger Lakes Exhibition, Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, New York - 2009 59th Rochester Finger Lakes Exhibition, Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, New York - 2003 International Photography Invitational, Fraser Gallery, Washington, DC. 2009 Artist Statement: My aerial photographs present a sense of selective design applied to an extremely small and specific area of the vast landscape over which I fly. I find the need to make geographical sense of the earth, as well as the need to make visual sense of a photograph. I work with ambiguity of scale, the graphic quality of nature and with the hand of man upon the landscape. My images have an abstract and often painterly quality. They are at once factual and interpretive. Familiar landscapes take on a fresh context when airborne. The images require the confluence of several factors. There is the subject – a minuscule segment of the landscape that has captured my interest due to its sense of pattern, order or disarray. There is the essential contribution of light. There is the position and altitude of the airplane, and there is a need to capture the stillness and composition of the moment while moving over the subject at more than seventy miles per hour. My earliest aerial photographs were of ice and farmland, made close to home. The scope of the work opened up on solo flights across the continent in my vintage 1952 Cessna 170B. Those flights are made to find images of landscapes on a grander scale as well as unfamiliar opportunities to find images that take in a small detail. In my most recent work I’ve discovered what might be regarded as historical or documentary themes – some of the images of factories and quarries present relics of the country’s industrial past, while my newer images of the landscape and agriculture denote changes in the scale of farming and open space. I started photographing when I was twelve years old. My father taught me to fly when I was fourteen years old. Before taking off on my first solo flight, he admonished me not to go out of sight of the airport. I was soon out of his view and yet from where I was, the airport was always in sight. Such are the perceptions of a photographer who is airborne. Solo and Two-person Gallery ShowsCarrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, New York. Summer 2013Iris Gallery, Boston. 2011- 2012The Gallery at Bausch and Lomb World Headquarters, Rochester, New York. 2006Lake Placid Center for the Arts, Lake Placid, New York. 2003The Elizabeth Collection, Rochester, New York. 1995The Little Theater Gallery, Rochester, New York. 1991 Group Gallery ShowsOutside Focus, The Drawing Room Gallery, Cos Cob, Connecticut 2014Summer Show, Iris Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts. 2010Snow White, Carrie Haddad Photographs, Hudson, New York. 2010 / 2011Such Great Heights, Carrie Haddad Photographs, Hudson, New York. 2009Sounding Out, Chicago Art Source, Chicago, Illinois. 2009Art Registry, Chase Contemporary, Washington, DC. 2009High Falls Art Gallery, Rochester, New York. 2000The Link Gallery, Rochester, New York. 1999Atrium Gallery, Rochester, New York. 1999 Corporate Collections• Bausch and Lomb, New York• Boylan Brown Code Vigdor & Wilson LLP, New York• Coldwell Banker Corporate Offices, New York• Darby & Darby PC, Washington state• Digene Corporation, Maryland• Energy Networks, New York• Gianniny Associates, New York• Linklaters US, New York• Kapstone Paper, Illinois• Konar Properties, New York• McArdle Ramerman, New York• Paychex, New York• Parkside Financial, Missouri• DLA Piper Rudnick Cary Gray, LLP, New Jersey• Reyes Holdings, Illinois• Sherman Hospital, Illinois• Strong Health, New York Press Coverage /editorial• Adirondack Life Magazine, featured work, December 2015• Adirondack Life Magazine, feature and cover, December/January 2014• Rochester Magazine, featured work. 2014• Lenswork Extended, Featured Interview and Folio, December 2013• City Newspaper, August, 2013• Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, feature article. 2012• SxSE online and print magazine, featured portfolio. 2011 & 2012• Rochester Magazine, feature article. 2009• Lake Effect Magazine, featured work. 2007• Adirondack Life Magazine, feature story and cover. 2004• Art Express television show, Mountain Lakes Public Broadcasting feature segment. 2004 Educational experience• Aerial Photographic Interpretation. Paul Smiths College. Adjunct faculty 2005• Introductory Photography, Rochester Institute of Technology. Adjunct faculty 2007• Aerial Photography - dedicated workshop 2015