Bio
Ted Rigoni’s contemporary photographic art focuses on natural settings, urban light, and athletic competition. His passion for the emotive stories found within lonely, abandoned and forgotten places is expressed through digital images of the crenelated trunks of tightly packed Aspen, rarefied golden dust and the slanted moonlight of dunes within the Mojave Desert, the slowly rising superheated steam emanating from geologic-driven processes, fog-shrouded mysteries hidden deep within moody rain forests, and the abandoned and neglected ruins of our forgotten works, recognizing that nature and our imaginations tell stories of what once was and may still be. He is equally passionate about capturing the emotions of athletes in motion, his images turning athletic competition into visual records of the intensive actions of the participants.
His solo exhibitions include Emotive Dominion, Sasse Museum of Art, Pomona, CA (Jan/Feb 2025), and at a private school in Irvine CA (Aug/Sept 2025); Bygone Patterns, Los Angeles Art Association, CA, 2023; and Oxidized, Progress Gallery, Pomona, CA (2020), and Auburn, WA, 2022. Select Group Exhibitions in 2025 include 2025 Juried Fine Art Exhibition, City of Laguna Beach, CA; City of Hope bi-annual call for art, Irvine, CA; How Is the Weather: Art + Climate Change, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA; and the heART, Tustin Area Council of Fine Arts, Chemers Gallery, Tustin, CA. Recent reviews and essays include Metals from the Mojave photo exhibit draws deep truths from what pioneers left behind, Auburn Reporter, Location, 2022; Lassen Volcanic National Park Flip Book, published by National Park Photography Expeditions, Chino Hills, CA, 2021; Journeys in Photography, Samy’s Camera YouTube Series, Costa Mesa, CA, 2021; Oxidized, Dodho Magazine’s Call #14, Barcelona, Spain, 2020.
“A Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.”
— Ambrose Bierce