David Lovekin

I use my camera as a tool, like a brush or a pencil; tools are tools, extensions of the user, none more "artistic" than the other. The goal of my art is to turn looking in seeing, a goal common to nearly any art. My seeing typically involves a narrative and a search for direction. The rest is up to the viewer -- to engage seeing.

Artist Bio

David Lovekin was  a Professor of Philosophy and Chair of Religion and Philosophy at Hastings College for over 18 years. He earned a Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Dallas in the School of Arts and Humanities.

Lovekin began photography around 1968 working on books for a publisher under Rand McNally but put the camera down for about twenty years. His photography has appeared in Love; America's Last Chance; America the Beautiful in the Words of Walt Whitman (Randy McNally), and one of two covers he did for The Prairie Schooner (UNL) was included in an exhibition at  the Sheldon Museum of Art in Lincoln, NE. He has exhibited throughout the Midwest including the Great Plains Art Museum in Lincoln.