Lou Oates
10034 E. Indigo St. Mesa, AZ 85207 Born: Chicago, IL 1940
AZ Phone: 480-218-6439  IL Phone: 630-690-9621
email: louoates@banet.com

Selected Recent Exhibitions, Competitions, Publications, and Collections

2007

Copper Triangle Gallery Permanent showing begun May, 2007

Working on project: Dynamic Chicago

Artist of the Month (July) -- Mesa Art League

2006 (June 30, 2006-August 7, 2006)

Solo show: Renaissance Court Gallery, Chicago Chicago Cultural Center, Three Generations and You're Out -- "Photography and Digital Art by Lou Oates"

Featured digital artist, book: Digital Collage and
Painting for Photographers by Sue Bloom, Focal Press, published in Spring 2006.

2005 (Competition)

Best of Show Out of the Ordinary, Cobre Valley Center of the Arts, Globe, AZ. January 2005. Digital Montage Sadie Tried to Enlist. And First Place, same show. Digital Montage Eviction of the Gargoyles.

Four digital composites at Vision Gallery, Chandler, AZ

2005 ( Exhibitions)

Rezurrection Gallery "Gun Show" May/June
Shemer Museum, Phoenix, AZ “Creative Couples” January-February 2005

2004

Completed photo essay of the Copper Basin Railroad Hayden, AZ. Completed photo essay of the Magma Hotel, Superior, AZ.
Summer shooting in Chicago: viaducts, street scenes, Millennium Park. Began a 24 image series of whimsical digital composites, "Three Generations and You're Out ".
Established permanent gallery space at the Arizona Mesquite Company
Was accepted for a one man gallery show in 2006 at Renaissance Court Gallery, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago Loop

2003

Preparation of two large portfolios for gallery display: Jim's 76 and The Old School.
Creation of this web site for the direct sale of photographs.

2002 (Competition)

Best of Show & Viewer's First Choice--"Superior Mountain Festival Art Show".
First Place, Photography--"Southwest" Art Exhibition, Cobre Valley Center for the Arts. Globe, AZ.

2002 (Juried Exhibition)

"Identity" Exhibition Step Gallery, ASU campus, Tempe, AZ. Composite Digital Images.
"All Digital" Exhibition Harry Wood Gallery ASU, Tempe, AZ. Composite Digital Image.
"Third Annual Photography Show", Quintessence Gallery, Chandler, AZ. Three images.

2001-02 (Solo Shows)

"The Road to Globe" Boyce Thompson Arboretum. Black and white images from 1999—2001 plus several composite digital images taken on or near Arizona Route 60 from Phoenix to Globe, including Superior and Miami, AZ.

"Images of Superior". Community First Bank, Superior, AZ. Black and white images of historic landmark buildings including images from Superior vicinity.

Twenty four images featured at Cobre Valley Center for the Arts, Globe, AZ.

2000 (Competition and Touring Exhibit)

"A Chandler View: Photography within our City’s Borders". Chandler Arts Commission. Two photographs chosen for touring exhibit and purchase for public collection.

2000 (Competition)
"Dia de Colores" Festival, Superior, AZ. First Place, photography

Public Commissions
Superior Chamber of Commerce. Historic Buildings photography project for brochure to attract film producers to Superior, AZ.
Champlin Fighter Aircraft Museum, Mesa, AZ. Photographs featured on museum web site.
Pinal County Historical Museum. Photography of unique exhibits for postcard sales.

Publications (Books & Magazines)
Book:"Phoenix and the Valley of the Sun". Twin Lights Publishers, Inc. Three color photographs featured.
Book: "Tucson to Tombstone and Beyond ". Twin Lights Publishers, Inc. Six color photographs featured.
Magazines: Photographic, "Shooting Stunning Cityscapes", Nov. 2002 Featured color photograph. Shutterbug many featured photographs in their readers gallery.

Public Collection
Chandler Arts Commission, Chandler, AZ