Christopher Bucklow

Christopher Bucklow is a British artist who works in a variety of media, including photography, video, drawing, and painting. Bucklow’s images tether between a place of sublimity and reality. Influenced by science, philosophy, Romanticism, and the artist’s relation to nature, his photograms exist as both otherworldly and recognizable. He is among one of the leaders in the contemporary camera-less photography tradition. Bucklow draws or traces the shadows of his subjects on aluminum foil and then adds thousands of tiny holes into the foil. Using a self-created pinhole camera, he places the foil over photographic paper and takes his device outside to expose the image to direct sunlight. The results of this complex process are one of kind ethereal images. He has created many well-known series with this technique, including: Guest, Tetrarchs, and Magnetic Mirror, among others.

"Some of the Guests are inventions, outlines of people no longer alive, or no longer available to the artist’s pencil, but most are friends and close associates who comprise the cast of characters, the actors and the witnesses, of his world. Now, more literally, facets of his life and, by extension, self-portraits, the Guests achieve a more explicit equivalence of man and Nature. These new constellations, inscribed by the sun, take human form; they are selves made porous to the transfiguring light." -Maria Morris Hamburg, Making the Invisible Visible

Christopher Bucklow lives and works in England. His work is held in many public collections throughout the world, including the Guggenheim Museum in New York, The Museum of Modern Art in New York and San Francisco, The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, The Victoria and Albert Museum in London, The High Museum in Atlanta, Yale Center for British Art in New Haven, and Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, among others. He has been exhibited internationally in both solo and group shows at Danzinger Projects in New York, Riflemaker in London, Jackson Fine Art in Atlanta, Anthony Wilkerson Gallery in London, and Artereal in Sydney, among others. He has held residencies at The Centre for Studies in British Romanticism in Grasmere, The British Museum in London, and Banff Center for the Arts in Alberta. He has created several monographs (including Guest and Christopher Bucklow: Drawings), and has had many essays published. Christopher Bucklow is represented by Danzinger Projects, Riflemaker, and Jackson Fine Art.