“To be a Flower, is profound Responsibility” — Emily Dickinson

Many of my images comment on the passage of time and the depth to be found in experience, as the plants go to seed, then wither and die.

My work is created, rather than taken as photographs; the final images do not actually exist until I construct them using bits and pieces of multiple images.

I received my degrees from the undergraduate film school at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and the graduate art department at San Francisco State University. After making photographs for advertising and editorial clients, I returned to my own work.

Gallery shows in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Nashville, Scottsdale, Phoenix, Santa Fe, Sonoma, Healdsburg, San Diego and Atlanta, and a joint exhibition at the Sonoma Valley Museum of Art entitled, Akin: the Art of Nicole and Marc Katano, have expanded the conversation.

After a sojourn in northern California, I’m very happy to be back in Los Angeles.

HYATT HOTELS   Soho Myriad   Atlanta, GA

BELLAGIO HOTEL Las Vegas, NV

ICON Meyer Turku OY Finland

NOKIA   Nokia Design   Calabasas, CA

GRAND DEL MAR HOTELS AND VILLAS   Greenhaus   San Diego, CA

WARNER BROS   Los Angeles, CA

WALT DISNEY CO.   Burbank, CA

PARAMOUNT PICTURES   Los Angeles, CA

DREAMWORKS   Los Angeles, CA

AMERICAN GIRL   Madison, WI

PROCTER AND GAMBLE   Cincinnati, OH

TARGET   Minneapolis, MN

HEWLETT PACKARD   Palo Alto, CA

SONY   Los Angeles, CA

MIRAVAL RESORT   Tuscon, AZ

MATTEL   Los Angeles, CA

HORIZONS FOUNDATION   San Francsico, CA

NORWEGIAN SUITES   Soho Myriad   Atlanta, GA