Rein Nomm
Artist and Photographer
Recent Work
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Nomm is an artist and visual explorer who uses the camera to capture new and often
experimental visual ideas. His work has evolved from recording the beauty and variety of
the external world as it presented itself to creating his own photographic subjects, as
evidenced in his recent “Folds in Space” and “Fluid Moments” series.
Nomm's work embodies the stylistic undercurrents of Expressionism, Dada, Abstract
Expressionism, Minimalism, Conceptual Art and Lyrical Abstraction; as well as reflecting his Northern European roots and the influences of a
formal graduate education in art history and philosophy. His photographs have been
displayed or published by a variety of organizations including: the Museum of the Cherokee
Indian, the BBC Collective Gallery; Saatchi Online; Boletin del Instituto Andaluz del
Patrimonio Historico (PH 60) in Seville, Spain; Green Hills Literary Lantern, Detroit Free
Press, File Magazine, Flak Photo, Exposure Detroit Selective Focus Show, the permanent
collection of the Meteor Photo Gallery, and the Agitatto Gallery in Geneva, Switzerland,
which also represents his work throughout Europe. Nomm is a self-taught artist who
has been honing his photographic technique and refining his aesthetic sense for over 35
years. He has worked as a professional photographer, off and on, for the past 18 years,
undertaking assignments as diverse as architectural photography, executive portraits,
special events and product packaging. He also has taught art history and philosophy at
various colleges and universities in Michigan and was chairman of the Humanities Core
Program at Duns Scotus College in the 1970s. Nomm has two Master of Arts degrees, one in
Humanities (with a focus on art history and aesthetic theory) and the other in Philosophy
from Wayne State University.
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