Quick Facts
Biography
Clint Baclawski (born 1981) is a Boston-based artist who works with photography and light, shooting on an analog camera and transforms the prints into light-filled installation pieces.
Biography
Born in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, Baclawski attended Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) for his BFA and Bucknell University for post-baccalaureate study. He then attended Massachusetts College of Art and Design for his MFA.
Style of work
Baclawski's work are installations "composed of film image fragments stuffed inside polycarbonate tubes, propped onto mirrored Plexiglas and back-lit by LED lights." This style of art "feels both intimate and epic; he wraps you up in a world by breaking it down into slices." The Boston Art Review noted how Baclawski's work connects to his undergraduate degree in advertising photography especially the use of "back-lit imagery" to convey glamour to rural photographs. Baclawski " works with light, imagery, and installation, pushing the boundaries of the traditional photographic frame" (Frame Magazine, 2018). Cate McQuaidof the Boston Globe Said of his solo show “Fringe” that "Baclawski models the enchantments and perils of desire. From afar, an object of yearning — a lover, salvation, relief from pain — floods the imagination with its perfections.
Solo exhibitions
2014Chromogenic, The Hallway Gallery, Jamaica Plain, MA
2014 Pink Church, 301 Gallery, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA
2015Lush, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA
2015ACTINIC, Alternative Photography Festival of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland
2016Clint Baclawski: Luminous, Adelson Galleries, Boston, MA
2017Zephyr, HUBweek Boston, City Hall Plaza, Boston, MA
2019 Fringe, Abigail Ogilvy, Boston, MA
