CHARLES TURNELL · PHOTOGRAPHY & ARS MUSIVA
See Beauty Everywhere.
Photographic fragments become images of memory, nature, identity, and belonging. Look once for the image. Look again for the stories within it.
FEATURED SERIES · 2026
Stamped
The Making of America 250
More than 1,200 photographed postage stamps become a layered portrait of American memory. What does a nation choose to commemorate?
SELECTED BODIES OF WORK
SPIRIT
Between the visible and the felt.
Photographic fragments gather into images of presence, connection, and the thresholds we cross.
CURRENT & RECENT
Exhibitions
2026
2026
Prairie & Sky
Bruno David Gallery · Clayton, Missouri
2025
XV Florence Biennale
Fortezza da Basso · Florence, Italy
THE PRACTICE
Each fragment carries a story.
Born in Belize and based in St. Louis, Charles Turnell works across photography, digital painting, mosaic, and pointillism. His Ars Musiva process turns an archive of photographs into compositions that reveal their individual fragments through close attention. The camera is both his starting point and his palette.