barry brukoff

barry brukoff



Sobre el Artista


Born in Chicago. Studied painting, sculpture and design at Chicago Art Institute Moved to San Francisco in l970, pursuing multiple careers as photographer, painter and designer SELECTED AWARDS AND GRANTS 1976 Nikon International Competition - Award of Excellence 1980 Grant Recipient - National Endowment for the Arts 1981 Grant Recipient - National Endowment for the Arts 1985 AIA National Photographic Competition - lst Award 1989-90 Eastman Kodak Professional Support Grant - Morocco (book project) 1989 Professional Photographer's Showcase Award - Eastman Kodak 1990 Professional Photographer's Showcase Award - Eastman Kodak 2000 New England Bookbinder’s Association Award for Graphic Design Excellence for Brukoff’s Book: GREECE Land of Light 2003 New England Bookbinder’s Association Award for Graphic Design Excellence For Brukoff’s Book: Machu Picchu 2006 Pilsner Urquell International Photography Awards 2006 “The Lucie Awards” 2007 The Black and White “Spider Award” awarded a nominee fellowship for a series of black and white images from my forthcoming book: Temples of Cambodia: The Heart of Angkor 2008 The Black and White Spider Awards granted a first award and three nominee fellowships for a series of black-and-white images of Architectural photographs of the Capp Street Project EXHIBITS ADI Gallery - San Francisco, l979 Nikon House - New York, l980 Janus Gallery - Santa Fe, l981 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Rental & Sales Gallery, l981 Lonny Gans & Associates Gallery - Los Angeles, l984 40th Anniversary of the United Nations - San Francisco, l985 - Commemorative Photographic Exhibition of Children from Around the World Min Gallery - Group Show - Tokyo, 1986 Min Gallery - One-Man Show - Tokyo, August 1987 Elaine Horwitch Gallery - Palm Springs, November 1987 Northern Illinois University Gallery - Henry Moore/ Barry Brukoff - Chicago, April 1988 Elaine Horwitch Gallery - Santa Fe, May 1988 Michael Shapiro Gallery - San Francisco, May 1988 Citrus Restaurant Gallery in conjunction with G. Ray Hawkins Gallery - Los Angeles, October l989 Vision Gallery - One-Man Show - San Francisco Nov/Dec l990 Susan Spiritus Gallery- Group Show- July 1991 - Costa Mesa, CA Vision Gallery- Group Show, March 1992 - San Francisco Gotham BookMart & Gallery - Oct. 1993 - New York Vision Gallery-One-Man Show, July 1995 - San Francisco LewAllen Galleries The Railyard - Santa Fe, Two Person Show with Michael Collins "Temples of Eternal Memories" November 2011 WORK IN THE COLLECTION OF: IBM Corporation American Broadcasting Corp - NY Westco Savings - LA Bank of America - SF SSI Corporation - Palo Alto ROLM Corporation - Palo Alto Russel Reynolds & Assoc - SF Dr. N. Edward Boyce - Greenbrae Mr. & Mrs. Roswell Messing III Main, Hurdman & Co - SF Hewlett Packard - Palo Alto C & H Sugar- SF Dreyers Grand Ice Cream The David and Lucile Packard Foundation - Los Altos Eastman Kodak Security Pacific Nat'l Bank - Chicago Touche, Ross - LA The Knoll Co - SF Ashton Tate ARCO Corp - LA TEL Corp - SF Natkin & Weisback - SF Steifel, Leavitte & Weiss - SF Smith Barney & Co - NY The Prudential Insurance Co., - New Jersey Union Bank Of Switzerland Washburne, Briscoe & McCarthy PUBLICATIONS 1980 The Enigma of Stonehenge, text by John Fowles photographs by Barry Brukoff. Jonathan Cape, Ltd, London & Wm Collins & Sons Co - Canada 1987 Monograph - Barry Brukoff Photography - published by Min Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 1988 Exhibition catalog - Henry Moore Prints and Barry Brukoff Photographs "The Elephant Skull and Stonehenge" 1993 Morocco - Color photographs of the Maghreb, text by Paul Bowles. Harry N. Abrams Art Books. 1998 Greece, Land of Light - 160 pages, color photographs. Text by Nicholas Gage. Bulfinch Press, Little, Brown and Co. 2002 Machu Picchu - 120 pages, black and white - Text: New translation by Stephen Kessler of Pablo Neruda's "The Twelve Cantos of the Heights of Machu Picchu". Bulfinch Press, Little, Brown and Co. 2011 Temples of Cambodia , The Heart of Angkor, Text by Helen Ibbitson Jessup Vendome Press WORKS IN PROGRESS 2012 Royal Cities of The Ancient Maya Text by Professor Michael Coe Vendome Press TURKEY text by Stephen Kinzer, author of The Star and The Crescent MONOGRAPH Corbusier’s Ronchamp Chapel, text to be determined LIGURIA Color photographs of the Italian Riviera, text by Mario Soldaty, Gore Vidal, Guiseppe Conte and other Italian writers. BARRY BRUKOFF — BIOGRAPHY Brukoff has now moved to the digital darkroom. His work is printed archivally with Epson pigment inks on archival photo papers. He feels that using digital technology has given him the level of control and expertise which now affords him the highest level of quality for his printmaking. Preferring to work in a selection of discrete series, exploring a wide range of subject matter, his work is related to painterly concerns. Prior to 1985, Brukoff pursued dual careers in painting as well as photography. Abandoning painting has enabled him to more fully explore various facets of photography. In 1986, he began to experiment with the diptych and triptych forms as a way to continue to explore large-scale work in color as he had done in painting. Many of his series, although literal images, reflect the eye of the abstract painter. As expressed in a review by Photo District News, “...these photos ...do undeniably have something special in them, something more beautiful and mysterious that is quite hard to define. Perhaps it is his sense of light, which is extraordinarily fine in both day and evening... so many of his photos feature both sun and shadow, always giving rise to the feeling that there is something wonderful half-hidden there in the dark ....”