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Christopher Bucklow

February 21 – March 23, 2013

 Tetrarch, 2011, 	40 x 60 inch unique cibachrome print 

Tetrarch, 2011

40 x 60 inch unique cibachrome print 

 Tetrarch 12:59pm, September 23, 2011

Tetrarch 12:59pm, September 23, 2011
40 x 60 inch unique cibachrome print

 Tetrarch 3:57pm November 21, 2012

Tetrarch 3:57pm November 21, 2012
60 x 40 unique cibachrome print

 Tetrarch 1:25pm December 11, 2004

Tetrarch 1:25pm December 11, 2004
40 x 60 unique cibachrome print

 Magnetic Mirror 2:29pm, May 28, 2012

Magnetic Mirror 2:29pm, May 28, 2012
38 x 29 inch unique cibachrome print

 Tetrarch 10:34am July 20, 2008

Tetrarch 10:34am July 20, 2008
60 x 40 inch unique cibachrome print

 Towards Field of the Cloth of Gold II 3:11pm, October 27, 2012

Towards Field of the Cloth of Gold II 3:11pm, October 27, 2012
19 ¼ x 15 inch cibachrome print

 Field of the Cloth of Gold II 3:54pm, October 27, 2012

Field of the Cloth of Gold II 3:54pm, October 27, 2012
19 ¼ x 15 inch cibachome print

 Towards Field of the Cloth of Gold III, 9:21am November 2, 2012

Towards Field of the Cloth of Gold III, 9:21am November 2, 2012
19 ¼ x 15 inch cibachome print

 Field of the Cloth of Gold 3:01pm, October 27, 2012

Field of the Cloth of Gold 3:01pm, October 27, 2012
19 ¼ x 15 inch cibachrome print

 Field of the Cloth of Gold II, 11:37am, October 17, 2012

Field of the Cloth of Gold II, 11:37am, October 17, 2012
19 ¼ x 15 inch cibachrome print

 Field of the Cloth of Gold III 2:09pm, November 1, 2012

Field of the Cloth of Gold III 2:09pm, November 1, 2012
19 ¼ x 15 inch cibachrome print

 Field of the Cloth of Gold III 12:37pm October 17, 2012

Field of the Cloth of Gold III 12:37pm October 17, 2012
19 ¼ x 15 inch cibachrome print

 Tetrarch 9:36am, November 29, 2012

Tetrarch 9:36am, November 29, 2012
40 x 60 inch unique cibachrome print

 Tetrarch 10:55am, September 27, 2011

Tetrarch 10:55am, September 27, 2011
40 x 60 inch unique cibachrome print

Press Release

Christopher Bucklow was born in Manchester, England in 1957. His works are in collections including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Victoria & Albert Museum, and SF MoMA. Bucklow is best known for his luminous silhouette photographs, works that place him within a movement building since the early 1990's of British photographers who have taken the art of the photogram into ever more novel, interesting, technically and conceptually challenging territory.

Bucklow’s second show at Danziger Gallery combines 17 new photographic works – both figurative and abstract –with a sampling of the paintings that have engaged Bucklow increasingly over the last decade.  Probing deeper into his own subconscious, Bucklow’s otherworldly figures shift to canvas in darker and more primal narratives, opening up Guston-like to visionary dreams and nightmares.

Bucklow’s newest photographs expand his repertoire to include interacting figures, a mysterious playing card like male/female reflection, and a separate suite of color abstractions influenced equally by Islamic pattern and quantum physics. 

Bucklow’s photograms begin with his making of thousands of small pinholes on a foil silhouette.  Using a contraption of his own device that places the foil over a large sheet of photographic paper, Bucklow wheels his homemade "camera" out into daylight and pulls the "shutter" to briefly expose the paper to direct sunlight. Thus each finished picture becomes a kind of photogram silhouette composed of thousands of pinhole photographs of the sun. The intensity of light on a given day and the length of exposure create unique color variations on how the resulting piece appears.

Seeking to close the perceived gap between the thing and its depiction and searching for immediacy and tactility not inherent in traditional photography, Bucklow has found a way to avoid the delay between the release of the shutter and the production of the print. At the same time, his explorations into avoiding the negative are both literal and figurative, connecting light and art with the artist’s spiritual and aesthetic concerns.