Welcome to The AfterImage!
An afterimage is a visual illusion of an artifact that continues to appear in the mind’s eye after a period of exposure which may ultimately awaken a pandora’s box of deeply visceral responses.
Press here for some suggested ways in which to awaken your inner child, and enjoy the artistic visions within my website!
Featured Project
Storytelling is an art form that dates back to the beginning of civilization. My allegorical projects attempt to sequentially lead the viewer through a series of images with both a literal and symbolic interpretation.
My wife, Jayne, and I recently had the honor and privilege of attending and participating in the Quinceañera. The fiesta de quince años is a celebration of a girl’s 15th birthday.
*** Selections here were published in LensWork Trilogies 2022.
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Featured Photography
A mythologically inspired miniseries from locations in Drach Caves, Mallorca, Spain, Jenolan Caves, New South Wales, Australia, and Howe Caverns, NY, USA.
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Featured Publication
Is today, just another day? Or did we wake up this morning with some particular purpose or intent? Aside from life’s extremes, most of our moments are pretty mundane: another job to do; another game to play; another boring day to pass.
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The Making Of Made In The USA
The making of this series.
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My Travel Series
Oh, the places I have been!
What People Are Saying About Jerry’s Art…
When we review submissions here, we either know we want to publish something, or we know we don’t want to publish something. And every once in a while we look at a body of work and just go “wow!” This is fabulous. That was the case with yours. We instantly knew we wanted to publish it…We are also delighted to include one of your images on the cover.

John Paul Caponigro
Internationally Renowned Visual Artist / Caponigro ArtsI remember the day when Jerry Grasso lit up. He understood that not only could he become more creative but he was already much more creative than he thought he was. Hard work produces grace, not miracles. Since then, Jerry’s followed through on his creative life with passion and commitment. It’s been delightful to see his work grow and be celebrated in exhibitions and publications.
Jerry has been one of my most dedicated students; he is open to learning new approaches, accepted criticism and progressed exponentially. Jerry followed through with exceptional commitment to all projects he was given, and as a result, has fine tuned his talent and now produces such high quality of work that he was accepted by LensWork magazine.
The visual artistry of Jerry Grasso caught my attention ten years
ago. I bought an image and then a book. The creative energy that
continues to drive his aesthetic development is fascinating. His
images have cycled through periods of abstraction and stark
realism, but always maintain an optical complexity. They engage
the eye with a physical presence as art objects but also trigger
moods and emotions in the mirror of imagination.

Troy Almeida
Photography EnthusiastI appreciate what you [say] about finding your inner child, being imaginative, and not seeing everything in black & white. You talk about people seeing your work in galleries but then not being able to describe what they saw, and I realized I'm guilty of those things, too. I don't always know how to view art, and I don't look at [your art] deeply enough to really "see" it, if that makes any sense. Once I really looked at it deeply, it definitely helped me to appreciate the extreme detail of the architecture. It really did force me to slow down and LOOK at them. I enjoyed that very much.