Biography

Preston Poe is a video sculptor, teacher, curator, and sound artist living and teaching in Salisbury, Maryland.

Recent works have focused on sound and installation. White Noise, a political sound piece was selected for two exhibitions as part of "Adding Insult to Injury." SomnambuTable, an interactive sound-bed incorporating transducers to resonate sonic waves through the human body was selected for in "Zero Gravity" at the Sangre de Cristo Arts Center in Southern Colorado. The sound installation, Hush, was a part of the "Idioma-tic" exhibition at DAVA - Downtown Aurora Visual Arts on the topic of communication and language.

In 2004, he completed his Master of Fine Arts at the University of South Florida. His thesis project, a 45-minute film entitled American Folk, is an experimental documentary encompassing itinerant musicians. A series of vignettes are sculpted together, emulating the rambler’s vernacular to unify the disparate into the eloquent. Download MFA Thesis [pdf].

Working with sound, Preston welcomes interaction with curators, artists, musicians, poets, teachers, and students who are creatively seeking collaboration and exploration in the area of sound art.