Clint Baclawski

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 installations are film image fragments stuffed inside polycarbonate tubes, which are then placed on mirrored Plexiglas and back-lit by LED lights. 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. In 2018, Frame Magazine wrote that he "works with light, imagery, and installation, pushing the boundaries of the traditional photographic frame." Cate McQuaid of 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
2014 Chromogenic, The Hallway Gallery, Jamaica Plain, MA

2014 Pink Church, 301 Gallery, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA

2015 Lush, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA

2015 ACTINIC, Alternative Photography Festival of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland

2016 Clint Baclawski: Luminous, Adelson Galleries, Boston, MA

2017 Zephyr, HUBweek Boston, City Hall Plaza, Boston, MA

2019 Fringe, Abigail Ogilvy, Boston, MA