Brian Buckley

Thera, Santorini, Greece

2020

Pineapple VI 2022 Signed, titled, and dated in pencil, verso Wet photogram with ferric ammonium citrate, potassium ferricyanide, and suspended watercolor pigment (Unique) 22 x 14....

Pineapple XII 2022 Signed, titled, and dated in pencil, verso Wet photogram with ferric ammonium citrate, potassium ferricyanide, and suspended watercolor pigment (Unique) 15.75 x...

Pineapple V 2022 Signed, titled, and dated in pencil, verso Wet photogram with ferric ammonium citrate, potassium ferricyanide, and suspended watercolor pigment (Unique) 22 x 14.7...

Pineapple VII 2022 Signed, titled, and dated in pencil, verso Wet photogram with ferric ammonium citrate, potassium ferricyanide, and suspended watercolor pigment (Unique) 22 x 14...

Signed, titled, and dated in pencil, verso Wet photogram with ferric ammonium citrate, potassium ferricyanide, and suspended watercolor pigment (Unique) This work is offered by Cla...

Signed, titled, and dated in pencil, verso Wet photogram with ferric ammonium citrate, potassium ferricyanide, and suspended watercolor pigment (Unique) This work is offered by Cla...

I began making photograms with alternate light sources in 2020, due to having an unfinished darkroom at the time of the shutdown. (Fortunately, the wet side was nearly complete just prior and I had a ton of old European sized Forte in my paper safe to experiment with). "Into the Ether" was my first in-depth body of cameraless work, which was completed at the end of the year. All of my images are essentially subconscious self-portraits which reveal themselves during my printing processes (that applies to both film-based prints and unique darkroom darkroom prints made without the use of a camera). This award-winning series took shape while in the height of covid-based isolation. However, making the work led to my now current occupation, as I now specialize in experimental photograms and teach some of my processes. "Flower Implosion" was one of my first sparkler exposures involving moving water; Made with flowers and water, this triple exposed sparkler-o-gram debuted via an online exhibition...

One-of-a-kind handmade print (photogram made sans enlarger). One of my early photograms, made in 2020; I began making alt process photograms in June 2020, due to having an unfinished...

Unique silver gelatin print (photogram made sans enlarger); from my "From the Ashes" series. My first covid-born cameraless series, inspired due to having an unfinished darkroom at t...

Unique silver gelatin print; Mixed process triple exposure with flowers, glitter, sand, and water. Made by hand in my home darkroom. "Metamorphosis" series. I began making photogram...

This one-of-a-kind alt process landscape (photogram) was actually just made during my recent artist residency, which concluded in September; I was 4 unique silver gelatin prints into...

This is the unique silver gelatin print that started it all... In March 2020, most of the dry side of my darkroom was still in pieces, taking over my living room, as I had not yet fo...