Meet the Artist: Mark Kurtz

Mark Kurtz’s photography comes from a formal fine arts background. His time in art school in the early 1980s (BFA from Alfred University) has informed his fine art work as well as his commercial photography. He also has a background in teaching, having taught art and photography at the high school and college level as well as photography workshops.

For 35 years Kurtz has been providing Saranac Lake, Lake Placid and the Adirondack region with fine art, commercial and event photography. Kurtz’s studio and gallery of fine art photography is located in downtown Saranac Lake at 52 Main St. and holds hundreds of handmade prints, many framed and on display, and many unframed that are available for a visitor’s perusal.

While much of Kurtz’s current work is with the digital camera and printed as ink-jet (giclee) prints, he also works with film and continues to produce silver prints made in the darkroom, which is part of his studio space and open for visitors to check out. Kurtz works with several different camera formats, some digital and some film based. The panorama, large format and “Holga” (simple plastic camera) film based cameras are his favorites. He is particularly known for his natural landscapes of the Adirondacks — made primarily with the panorama camera — as well as his urban landscapes, many having been made in the concrete canyons of New York City. He also shows a unique interpretation of “landscape” photography with his Pavement Series, also on display at his studio.

Kurtz is one of the founding members of the Adirondack Artist’s Guild and Saranac Lake ArtWorks and is currently on the board of BluSeed Studios in Saranac Lake. Kurtz also shows his work at the Adirondack Artists Guild, located right next to the doorway that leads up to his own studio. In addition to his own studio/gallery and the Artists Guild, his work can be found at markkurtzphotography.com. For more information, call 518891-2431 or email mark@markkurtzphotography.com.

October 26-29, 2023

A tradition of film excellence in an authentic Adirondack mountain town