by Wayde Faust
Print on High-Gloss Aluminum
18" x 24" x 1.25"
Artist Biography
Wayde Raymond Faust is a Newport Beach, California-based photographer, painter, inventor, and award-winning film and video editor. A graduate of the School of Visual Arts at Syracuse University, his creative career spans more than three decades across fine art, film, and visual storytelling.
Faust’s photographic work explores abstraction, atmosphere, reflection, and the transformation of familiar subjects into immersive visual experiences. Influenced by his background in motion-based editing, his images often emphasize rhythm, spatial tension, and layered perception. His work ranges from coastal and environmental abstraction to psychologically intimate observational photography.
In addition to his fine art practice, Faust has received more than 70 industry honors in film and television and earned a Grammy nomination for his editorial work. His recent photography has been featured in multiple juried exhibitions throughout California and internationally.
Artist Statement
My work explores the space between observation and abstraction, using photography to transform familiar environments into layered experiences of light, atmosphere, texture, and emotion. I’m drawn to images that hold both immediacy and ambiguity — moments where reflection, movement, surface, or perspective begin to shift our sense of orientation and perception. The works submitted for this exhibition focus on iconic visual experiences tied to memory, place, and cultural recognition, ranging from Southern California coastal landscapes to roadside landmarks and intimate moments of connection. Whether atmospheric, cinematic, or psychologically charged, the images are rooted in a desire to slow perception and encourage deeper looking. My background as an award-winning film and video editor continues to influence the rhythm, structure, and visual flow within my photographic work.
by Wayde Faust
Print on High-Gloss Aluminum
18" x 24" x 1.25"
Artist Biography
Wayde Raymond Faust is a Newport Beach, California-based photographer, painter, inventor, and award-winning film and video editor. A graduate of the School of Visual Arts at Syracuse University, his creative career spans more than three decades across fine art, film, and visual storytelling.
Faust’s photographic work explores abstraction, atmosphere, reflection, and the transformation of familiar subjects into immersive visual experiences. Influenced by his background in motion-based editing, his images often emphasize rhythm, spatial tension, and layered perception. His work ranges from coastal and environmental abstraction to psychologically intimate observational photography.
In addition to his fine art practice, Faust has received more than 70 industry honors in film and television and earned a Grammy nomination for his editorial work. His recent photography has been featured in multiple juried exhibitions throughout California and internationally.
Artist Statement
My work explores the space between observation and abstraction, using photography to transform familiar environments into layered experiences of light, atmosphere, texture, and emotion. I’m drawn to images that hold both immediacy and ambiguity — moments where reflection, movement, surface, or perspective begin to shift our sense of orientation and perception. The works submitted for this exhibition focus on iconic visual experiences tied to memory, place, and cultural recognition, ranging from Southern California coastal landscapes to roadside landmarks and intimate moments of connection. Whether atmospheric, cinematic, or psychologically charged, the images are rooted in a desire to slow perception and encourage deeper looking. My background as an award-winning film and video editor continues to influence the rhythm, structure, and visual flow within my photographic work.
