MAGNETIC PULL

Posted on 2021-02-01

Magnetic Pull is a selection of works by members of the Bay Area Photographers Collective (BAPC), a community of photographers who nurture each other’s professional and artistic growth. As curators, we are interested in the support structures artists create to sustain their practices over time – especially in a region that attracts so many artists to live, study, and work.

Collectives are a strategy that particularly intrigue us: The promise of a self-selected community seems almost utopian. Going into this process, we were curious how that kinship might show up in the individual images and bodies of work made by each member. We intuited that some kind of attractive force might be at play, drawing the artists not only to the individual subjects that compel them toward image-making, but to one another as colleagues and co-conspirators.

Opposite – Steven Raskin, The Big W

Exhibition runs through to February 20th, 2021

The Bay Area Photographers Collective
1246 Folsom Street
San Francisco
CA 94103

www.bapc.photo

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BRIAN BUCKLEY – UNCERTAINTY

Posted on 2021-02-01

Titled “Uncertainty,” the exhibition includes a selection of the artist’s new wet photograms.

Artists thrive in the state of uncertainty. It is the space in which new work is often produced—a realm where ideas are explored and solutions are sometimes found. Brian Buckley actively seeks out uncertainty, from which he draws creative inspiration. It defines the darkroom techniques he employs and helps explain the purpose of his artistic practice.

Buckley began his newest body of work in early 2020, purposely exploring the concept of uncertainty-especially in relation to his own life and abrupt changes brought on by the pandemic. Reflecting specifically on personal relationships, issues of intimacy, and more widely on his own notions of the nature of beauty, Buckley examined both the joy and pain of love, hoping to confront losses experienced over the course of his life.

Opposite – Aphrodite 03-02-20

Exhibition runs through to February 20th, 2021

ClampArt
247 West 29th Street, Ground Floor
New York
NY 10001

clampart.com

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