Bruce Wrighton

DOWNTOWN MAN #3, 1987
Binghamton, NY

Biographie

BRUCE WRIGHTON
 
Né en 1950 à Ithaca, New York
Décédé en Octobre 1988, Binghamton, New York
 
Formation
 
University of Rochester, Rochester, NY , Bachelor of Arts Degree in History, 1972
 
Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY, 1977-78
 
Expérience professionnelle
 
1973-1988, photographe indépendant répondant à des commandes commerciales tout en
poursuivant ses projets personnels
 
Expositions
 
“Three Families, Kinship and Ethnicity in Broome County”, Roberson Center for the Arts,
Binghamton, NY 1982
 
“Three Generations, Immigrants and Their Children in Broome County”, Roberson Center for
the Arts, Binghamton, NY 1983
 
“Threaded Memories”, Roberson Center for the Arts, Binghamton, NY 1984
 
“Folk Artists of the Southern Tier”, Roberson Center for the Arts, Binghamton, NY 1985
 
“Starting Over, Ethnic Communities in Broome County”, Roberson Center for the Arts,
Binghamton, NY 1985
 
“Doxology” (Study of iconography of the ethnic churches in Broome County), Tioga City
Council of the Arts, 1986
 
“Architectural Perspectives: Binghamton, NY”, Broome County Urban Cultural Park, 1986
 
“Hunter to Farmer”, Roberson Center for the Arts, Binghamton, NY 1986
 
“Goddesses and their Offspring”, Roberson Center for the Arts, Binghamton, NY 1987
 
“Dinosaurs and Dreamboats” (study of 1950’s Detroit auto design), Roberson Center for the
Arts, Binghamton, NY 1987
 
“Saint George and the Dragon”, Lightwork Gallery, Syracuse, NY 1987
 
“Saint George and the Dragon”, Nexus Gallery, Atlanta, Ga. 1987

“Saint George and the Dragon”, 92nd Street Y Gallery, New York, NY 1988
 
“Interiors”, Upstate Invitational at Pyramid Arts Center, Rochester, NY 1988
 
“A Portrait of Binghamton: The Photographs of Bruce Wrighton”, City Hall Gallery,
Binghamton, NY 1989
 
“Courthouse Dome and Other Binghamton Views: An Exhibition of Bruce Wrighton”
Roberson Museum and Science Center, Binghamton, 1990
 
“Seven Visions: The Spirit of Religion in Contemporary Regional Art”, Arnot Art Museum,
Elmira, NY,  and Roberson Museum and Science Center, Binghamton, 1991
 
“Counter Culture”, group exhibition, Laurence Miller Gallery, NYC, 1998
 
“Bruce Wrighton: A Photographic View of Greater Binghamton Architecture”, Binghamton
Visitor Center, Binghamton, 2005
 
“Dinosaurs and Dreamboats”, CWJ Classic Automobile Museum, Bernardsville, NJ 2006
 
“Dinosaurs and Dreamboats”, Laurence Miller Gallery, NYC, 2006
 
“The Joy of Color”, group exhibition, Laurence Miller Gallery, NYC, 2007
 
“Through and Open Window”, Laurence Miller Gallery, NYC, 2008
 
 “OJOS PRIVADOS, Coleccion Laurence Miller”, Barcelona, Spain, 2009 and traveling to
Oviedo, Almeria, and Vallodolid, Sapin
 
Only Photography/Roland Angst, Berlin, 2009
 
"L'Amérique des années 80", Les Douches la Galerie, Paris, 2010
 
Publications
 
Broome County Heritage, Larry Bothwell, 1984
 
Three Catskill Storytellers, Catherine Schwoeffermann, 1986
 
Automotive Quarterly, Vol. 26, #1. 1987
 
Ojos Privados, Coleccion Laurence Miller, Fundacio Foto Colectania, Barcelona, 2008
 
Ah Lord, Love me passionately, Images of Bodies & Religion in the Lutz, Teutloff Collection

Collections
 
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
 
Museum Folkwang, Essen
 
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
 
Goldman Sachs, New York
 
Dow Jones, New York, USA
 
Margulies Collection, Miami, USA
 
Roland Angst, Berlin, Germany
 
Jan and Trish DeBont, Los Angeles
 
Eva Felten, Munich, Germany
 
Sharon and John Hoffman, Kansas City, USA
 
Lutz Teutloff Photo + Video Collection, Bielefeld, Germany
 
Laurence Miller, New York, USA
 
Projets inachevés
 
“The Courthouse Dome and Other Binghamton Views”, A commission by the Broome County
Historical Society
 
“The Pride and Pathos of Street People, In and Around Binghamton”, Lightworks Gallery Grant
Recipient
 
“The Character of the Times”, Study of the workers at Endicott Johnson Corporation
 
“Saint George and the Dragon”, An inquiry into the symbol making process in both the sacred
and secular realms

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