Christopher Bucklow (born 1957) is a British artist and art-historian.[1] His work has been exhibited internationally and is held in numerous public collections including the Guggenheim Museum,[2] Museum of Modern Art (MoMA),[3] Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco (SFMoMA),[4] and The Metropolitan Museum of Art[5] among others. He has received residencies at The British Museum, London, the Banff Center for the Arts, Alberta, and The Centre for Studies in British Romanticism, Grasmere.[6] Bucklow is best known for his ongoing photographic series Guests (1993–present)[7] and his improvisational paintings from the series To Reach Inside A Vault (2006–present).[8] He is the author of numerous books and essays including The Sea of Time and Space (Wordsworth Trust, 2004),[9] "This is Personal: Blake and Mental Fight" in Blake & Sons, Lifestyles and Mysticism in Contemporary Art (University College, Cork, 2005), What is in the Dwat: The Universe of Guston's Final Decade (Wordsworth Trust, 2007),[10] and the co-author of Bacon and the Mind: Art, Neuroscience and Psychology (Thames & Hudson, 2019).[11]
Bucklow was born in Flixton, Greater Manchester, England. He graduated with a degree in art history in 1978. Between 1978 and 1995 he worked as a curator in the Prints & Drawings Department at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London[12] where he researched Romanticism, photography, and developed an interest in the work of William Blake (British, 1757 – 1827).[13] An account of Bucklow's career as a curator and the forces that propelled his transition to art praxis can be found in "Rhetoric and Motive in the Writing of Art History: A Shapeshifter's Perspective" in Remaking Art History (Routledge, New York City; 2007).[14]
Bucklow's early work (1989–91) was conceptual and sculptural, often taking the form of plant species that he altered genetically or grafted together.[15] In the 1990s he created two bodies of photographic work, The Beauty of the World (1991) and Guest - also known as Tetrarchs, that were foundational for Britain's contemporary negative-less photography movement[16].
Guests was created using a 30 x 40-inch pinhole camera, built by Bucklow, with thousands of apertures to make unique cibachrome chromogenic prints.[17] Tetrarchs were created using either a 40 x 60-inch camera, or one with a 40 x 100 inches plate size.[18] Guest (1993–present) features silhouettes of persons that appear to the artist in dreams. Friends, family, and fellow artists like Matthew Barney and Adam Fuss[19] are featured individually in the work as a collective of figures drawn by the multiple solar images directed through the 25,000 apertures in Bucklow's camera.[20][21]
His interest in personal mythology, Jungian dream psychology, metaphor and the use of personification was continued in his subsequent paintings.[22] To Reach Inside A Vault is a series of large scale improvisational paintings in which a commedia dell'arte technique is used to generate the subjects or plot.[23] These paintings were exhibited in Bucklow's 2017 retrospective Said Now, For All Time at the Southampton City Art Gallery, UK.[24]
Museum of Modern Art, New York[25]
Metropolitan Museum of Art[26]
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum[27]
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston[28]
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth[29]
Dallas Museum of Art[30]
Victoria & Albert Museum[31]
The Wordsworth Trust, Grasmere
Honolulu Museum of Art
Herzliya Museum of Art[32]
High Museum of Art[33]
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston[34]
Blanton Museum of Art,[35]
Cleveland Museum of Art[36]
Yale Center for British Art
Norton Museum, Palm Beach[37]
Perez Art Museum Miami[38]
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art[39]
Los Angeles County Museum of Art[40]
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