| Clint Baclawski |
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Currently resides in Boston, Massachusetts.
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| About the Artist |
My most current work titled 'Hype' depicts a spectacular American culture saturated with large-scale color imagery, consumerism, and forward momentum. The attractions featured in this series are both novel and commonplace, including parades, fairs, trade shows, and their surroundings in ordinary communities around our country every day. Each event is transitory, challenging me to capture a single image before that scene is forever altered. Photographing multiple frames at each location allows me to draw out fragmented narratives between the subjects and their environments by seamlessly compositing them together.
Defying conventional framing techniques, these photographs appear in large (40x50x12inches), sculptural, double-sided (one image on each side), freestanding light boxes. Backlit displays are an unexpected return to my previous interest in advertising photography. They strive to capture the attention of the fast-paced onlooker in our image-glutted world. Taken out of context and into a gallery setting, I encourage the viewers to experience the work from multiple perspectives. One has to bend, crouch, and circulate the work in order to see its entirety. This movement leads to the discovery that although the two images on either side are the same; one photograph is reversed, thus, horizontally resembling the effects of a mirror. The height restraints of the box are set to the level that spectators on the opposing sides have to face one another as they view the work. This shift from passive reception to active participation mimics the subjects in the photographs.
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Installation Shot
2008 Photographic Installation 106 x 132 x 30 cm |
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Automotive paint over plywood, Archival Inkjet backlight prints face mounted on plexi-glass |
installation Shot (3)
2008 Photographic Installation 106 x 132 x 30 cm |
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Automotive paint over plywood, Archival Inkjet backlight prints face mounted on plexi-glass. |
Exodus
2008 Photographic Installation 106 x 132 x 30 cm |
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Automotive paint over plywood, Archival Inkjet backlight prints face mounted on plexi-glass. |
Exodus
2008 Photographic Installation 106 x 132 x 30 cm |
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Automotive paint over plywood, Archival Inkjet backlight prints face mounted on plexi-glass. |
The Gathering
2008 Photographic Installation 106 x 132 x 30 cm |
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Automotive paint over plywood, Archival Inkjet backlight prints face mounted on plexi-glass. |
The Gathering
2008 Photographic Installation 106 x 132 x 30 cm |
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Automotive paint over plywood, Archival Inkjet backlight prints face mounted on plexi-glass. |
New England Sport III
2008 Photographic Installation 106 x 132 x 30 cm |
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Automotive paint over plywood, Archival Inkjet backlight prints face mounted on plexi-glass. |
New England Sport III
2008 Photographic Installation 106 x 132 x 30 cm |
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Automotive paint over plywood, Archival Inkjet backlight prints face mounted on plexi-glass. |
Motorola©
2008 Photographic Installation 106 x 132 x 30 cm |
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Automotive paint over plywood, Archival Inkjet backlight prints face mounted on plexi-glass. |
The Titanic
2008 Photographic Installation 106 x 132 x 30 cm |
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Automotive paint over plywood, Archival Inkjet backlight prints face mounted on plexi-glass. |
Consolation
2008 Photographic Installation 106 x 132 x 30 cm |
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Automotive paint over plywood, Archival Inkjet backlight prints face mounted on plexi-glass. |
Exhibition Hall A
2008 Photographic Installation 106 x 132 x 30 cm |
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Automotive paint over plywood, Archival Inkjet backlight prints face mounted on plexi-glass. |
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| Education and biography |
MFA- MassArt, Boston, MA 2008
BFA- Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY 2004 |
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Website: www.clintb.com/ |
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