ABOUT US
Digital Grange is the partnership of Bill Kane, Joe McDonald, and colleagues to provide a complete range of services for the digital creation and final presentation of fine artwork.
Bill Kane
Bill’s expertise is in photography, digital imaging and color correction. An artist himself, Bill is represented by Modernism gallery in San Francisco. He has a Masters Degree from San Francisco State in Fine Art Photography and a certificate in Multimedia Design and Production from NYU.
He is professionally active as a fine artist internationally. His photographs and mixed media works have been extensively exhibited in the US, Europe and Asia since 1980 in over 20 one-man and 60 group shows. His work is represented in the collections of the Museum fur Moderne Kunst, Frankfort, Germany, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the de Young Museums in San Francisco, CA, the Carnegie Mellon Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, the Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, the Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA, the Museum of Neon Art, Los Angeles, CA, the Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, PA, The Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA, NW Ayer Advertising, New York, the Southland Corporation, Dallas, TX, and the Arthur Anderson Co, Chicago, IL among others.
His work has also been featured in a number of movies, including Robocop by Paul Verhoeven, The Namesake by Mira Nair, Definitely Maybe by Adam Brooks and Just Wright by Sanaa Hamri.
Bill was awarded the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship twice, in 1980 for Photography and again in 1991 for Painting. Further he was awarded grants from the Eyes and Ears Foundation twice, in 1979 and again in 1984. He is included in the Who's Who of American Art.
Joe McDonald
Joe is a working commercial photographer, educator and artist. He has specialized in the photography of fine art and custom printing and has held the position of Photographer for the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco since 1988. He received a BA from the University of Minnesota in Literature and Music, an MA from Arizona State in Humanities and another Master of Arts from San Francisco State University in Studio Art (Photography). In addition he also teaches Digital Photography at Santa Rosa Junior College. Some of his commercial clients include Pixar Animation Studios, Chronicle Books, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, The Corcoran Gallery, McSweeneys, Antiques Magazine, Hewlett Packard, The Chicago Art Institute, Winterthur, and many other museums, collectors, galleries and individual artists.
Joe's personal artwork reflects interests in photography, printmaking and collage and the application of digital technology to the artistic process. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and is in the collections of The Stanford Art Museum, The Coos Bay Museum, Bank of America, the Ehrenfeld Collection, The MacNider Museum, The Goldyne Collection, AT&T, Pacific Telesis, and a number of other public and private collections.