For the past two years, Burckhardt has been photographing the fast-changing (some would say vanishing) East Village and Lower East Side, for many hours at a time, day in and day out. In the tradition of Weegee and Clayton Patterson, Hugh is accumulating a day-by-day history of the street life of this neighborhood long celebrated for its immigrants and squatters, artists and addicts, punks and homeless prophets. A life-long resident of the neighborhood and the son of artists who have each made their own contributions to the downtown art world, Hugh Burckhardt has, at a young age, found his own distinct calling here. His work is immediate, un-staged, and journalistic, and yet, without imposing an agenda or aesthetic on his subjects, Burckhardt gently brings an artist's eye to his compositions. The neighborhood may be gentrifying, but in documenting this very process of transformation, even its final throes, Burckhardt is keeping its spirit alive.
"Lower East Side kind of represented the vision of America, it was a place where one could come, and live out the American Dream. You could come here and be nobody, you could come here and be nothing and you could walk away and you could eventually be somebody. No matter which area you got into or what it is you wanted to do you could make your contribution." — Clayton Patterson
Upcoming Work: TBA
http://www.crsny.org/drupal/category/key-words/hugh-burckhardt
Mentions:
Dance Magazine
http://www.dancemagazine.com/reviews/May-2012/Yoshiko-Chuma-and-The-School-of-Hard-Knocks
Article on the group show at Gallery Onetwentyeight on display from Nov 3rd, to Dec 3rd.
http://www.dnainfo.com/20111109/lower-east-side-east-village/nuisance-or-revolution-occupy-wall-street-becomes-art
THEM – Chris Cochrane, Dennis Cooper, and Ishmael Houston-Jones (1986) review by Alex Rodabaugh
http://dancesihaveseen.wordpress.com/2010/11/01/them-chris-cochrane-dennis-cooper-and-ishmael-houston-jones-1986/
Bob Arihood's shot of him on his site
http://nadieseconoce.blogspot.com/2010/10/hugh-at-his-gallery-opening.html
Clayton Patterson's shot of him on his site
http://claytonpattersoncaptured.com/2010/09/02/lower-east-side-adventures-and-silent-moments/
http://claytonpattersoncaptured.com/2010/09/01/hugh-burckhardt-just-beginning-down-the-trail-documenting-a-couple-of-guys-who-have-spent-many-years-on-the-trial/
Links
Q & A at the CRS Gallery
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"Lower East Side kind of represented the vision of America, it was a place where one could come, and live out the American Dream. You could come here and be nobody, you could come here and be nothing and you could walk away and you could eventually be somebody. No matter which area you got into or what it is you wanted to do you could make your contribution." — Clayton Patterson
Upcoming Work: TBA
Past Works:
Group show @ Gallery onetwentyeight NY 2010
http://www.galleryonetwentyeight.org/currentshow.html
Amman, Jordan -2010
Solo show at CRS in NY -2010
http://www.crsny.org/drupal/category/key-words/hugh-burckhardt
Mentions:
Dance Magazine
http://www.dancemagazine.com/reviews/May-2012/Yoshiko-Chuma-and-The-School-of-Hard-Knocks
Article on the group show at Gallery Onetwentyeight on display from Nov 3rd, to Dec 3rd.
http://www.dnainfo.com/20111109/lower-east-side-east-village/nuisance-or-revolution-occupy-wall-street-becomes-art
THEM – Chris Cochrane, Dennis Cooper, and Ishmael Houston-Jones (1986) review by Alex Rodabaugh
http://dancesihaveseen.wordpress.com/2010/11/01/them-chris-cochrane-dennis-cooper-and-ishmael-houston-jones-1986/
Bob Arihood's shot of him on his site
http://nadieseconoce.blogspot.com/2010/10/hugh-at-his-gallery-opening.html
Clayton Patterson's shot of him on his site
http://claytonpattersoncaptured.com/2010/09/02/lower-east-side-adventures-and-silent-moments/
http://claytonpattersoncaptured.com/2010/09/01/hugh-burckhardt-just-beginning-down-the-trail-documenting-a-couple-of-guys-who-have-spent-many-years-on-the-trial/
Links
Q & A at the CRS Gallery
Youtube
Flickr
Follow Me On Twitter
WARNING: Any person and/or institution and/or Agent and/or Agency of any governmental, public or private structure, including but not limited to the United States Federal Government, also using or monitoring/using this website or any of its associated websites, you do NOT have my permission to utilize any of my profile information, or any of the content contained herein, including, but not limited... to my photographs/images, and/or the comments made about my photos or any other "picture" art posted on my profile. You are hereby notified that you are strictly prohibited from disclosing, copying, distributing, disseminating, or taking any other action against my person with regard to this profile and the contents herein. The foregoing prohibitions also apply to your employee(s), agent(s), student(s), or any personnel under your direction or control or commission. The contents of this profile are private and legally privileged and confidential information, and the violation of my personal privacy is punishable by law.
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