Artist Profile of Barry Brukoff
 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
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
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
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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
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PUBLICATIONS
1980 The Enigma of Stonehenge, text
by John Fowles
photographs
by Barry Brukoff. Simultaneously published by Summit Books, Div of
Simon & Schuster,
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/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.
WORKS IN PROGRESS
TURKEY text
by Stephen Kinzer, author of The Star and The Crescent
TEMPLES OF ANGKOR text by Helen Jessup
MONOGRAPH Corbusier’s
Ronchamp Chapel, text to be determined
LIGURIA Color
photographs of the Italian Riviera, text by Mario Soldati,
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 ....”
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