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Andrew Buck
Rockface
| Hear the Artist: | |
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| Why rock walls? | |
| On returning to the walls | |
| Dimension & depth | |
| The square format | |
| Camera | |
| What interests you in a photo? | |
Artist Statement:
The emphasis on abstract form that has always characterized my work is most evident in the Rockface series. These images are also concerned, to a degree, with how our presence in and impact on the natural landscape creates an entirely new landscape: all of the rock faces I have photographed were created by blasting through hills for road construction and for granite and trap rock quarrying.
About the Artist:
Andrew Buck has been involved with photography since he was a teenager. First exhibiting in Western Massachusetts and Syracuse, New York, he has continued to exhibit in the Northeast since the early 1970s. He was a member of the founding Board of Directors of Light Work in Syracuse.
In 1995, he was awarded a Connecticut Commission on the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship and in 2010 received an Artists Resource Trust grant to support the Rockface series.
Since the late 1970s, when he returned to Connecticut, his work has focused primarily on the man-made and man-altered landscape of Connecticut. A recent body of work focused on similar aspects of the landscape of northwestern Ohio.
This project has been supported by a grant from the Artist's Resource Trust.
This exhibition was made possible with the support of our members, and:
Connecticut Commission on Culture & Tourism
The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts
Greater Hartford Arts Council's United Arts Campaign
Travelers
Hartford Foundation for Public Giving
Sandy & Howard Fromson
Robinson & Nancy Grover
The Wallace Foundation
Lincoln Financial Group
The Nimoy Foundation
NewAlliance Foundation