ANDREW BUCK: ROCKFACE
OPENS AT REAL ART WAYS APRIL 21

Andrew Buck, Rockface XXV, pigment ink print, 44"x44", 2007. Image courtesy of the artist.

Opening Reception Thursday, April 21, 2011 | 6-8 PM
Part of Creative Cocktail Hour

Hartford, Connecticut - Real Art Ways presents an exhibition of Andrew Buck's black and white photographs of rock faces that capture the abstract patterns that emerge as humans shape the landscape. Rockface, opening Thursday, April 21 at Real Art Ways, is the result of the artist's three-year examination of the exposed and blasted rock created by mining and road development.

An opening reception on Thursday, April 21 from 6-8 PM will be held as part of Creative Cocktail Hour, Real Art Ways' monthly third Thursday gathering. Creative Cocktail Hour is from 6-10 PM; admission is $10/$5 Real Art Ways members.

Several of the photographs in Rockface were taken at a trap rock quarry in Meriden, Connecticut. There are also images from road cuts in Farmington, Connecticut and Bucksport, Maine.

Andrew Buck's interest in the patterns created by the play of light and shadow on craggy rock face is characteristic of his longtime artistic focus. About his work as a whole, Buck says, "My point of departure is always the landscape, but almost always a landscape we have created, intentionally or inadvertently. It is always with an eye for the abstract."

About Andrew Buck

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.

To support the Rockface series, Buck was awarded a highly competitive Artist's Resource Trust grant in 2010 from the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation.

Since the late 1970s, when he returned to Connecticut, Buck's 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.

Support for Real Art Ways

This exhibition was made possible with the support of Real Art Ways 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

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