Career Bruce Cratsley

bruce cratsley , mr muffit, copyright 1965-2010 © elsa dorfman

cratsley worked many years gallerist @ marlborough gallery before quitting in 1986 become full-time photographer.

as bruce cratsley , exhibited in various new york galleries, like: laurence miller gallery, howard greenberg gallery , witkin gallery. cratsley represented yancey richardson gallery, dealer of fine art photography based in soho.

in 1978 cratsley contributed photo sequences musical class, performed the new ballet school @ new york city center.

in 1980, cratsley s work, atlantic city, 1977, august beach scene, exhibited @ 11th anniversary show @ witkin gallery, sold 175$.

in 1989 cratsley awarded guggenheim fellowship photography, & canada.

cratsley documented life david waine, died in 1991. d been photographing david since long before became sick [...] @ point realized extraordinary thing happening, , had intimate relationship it. photographed david few hours before died, not knowing happen [...] david spiritual [...] pictures poetic, spiritualized loook @ aids .

in 1995 cratsley included barbara norfleet, olivia parker , john sturges in list of bestselling photographer @ robert klein gallery, boston. cratsley s b&w photos sold @ starting price of 400$. klein said of cratsley: bruce transforms commonplace things through keen sense of light , composition, , skilled printing .

cratsley documented lesbian , gay life, , in particular new york city lgbt pride march. event documented wigstock, annual outdoor drag festival began in 1980s in manhattan s east village took place on labor day. pictures both events @ new york public library, in permanent collection.

in 1999, cratsley included in volume desire: contemporary photography visual aids archive project.

in 2011 photograph cratsley, louvre window, paris, 1980, signed , dated, sold @ 300$.

on september 15, 2016, ron tarver, swarthmore instructor of studio art , pulitzer prize, gave lecture cratsley, swarthmore graduate, @ lpac (lang center performing arts).

works cratsley @ metropolitan museum of art, bibliothèque nationale de france , harvard art museums.

exhibitions

april 1987, witkin gallery, fay godwin, photographs imply hidden sensantions , mysteries.
april 1992, goldberg gallery, b&w portraits, street scenes, figure studies , still lifes.
july 1993, howard greenberg gallery, sabine weiss, b&w photographs of still life, landscapes , shop windows mannequins.
1994, motel gallery, b&w photographs of new york city gay , lesbian pride parade taken between 1983 , 1993.
february 1996, yancey richardson gallery, works 1976 1995, including portraits of friends, images of tabletop arrangements, mannequinns in street windows, museum interiors, , drag queens @ june gay pride parade.
july 1996, sea, yancey richardson gallery, milton avery, duncan hannah, tobi kahn, malcolm morley, fairfield porter, david true, helen miranda wilson , others.
december 1996, bruce cratsley: master of light , shadow, brooklyn museum; cratsley referred photos snapshots, really, though made . 22 images reflected cratsley s personal experiences spirituality, life , death. white light, silent shadows, monograph of cratsley, published in 1998 arena editions, few months before cratsley s death.
december 1997, photographs of paris, yancey richardson gallery, andré kertész , todd webb.
may 1999, bruce cratsley, photographs, paul kopeikin gallery, los angeles.
september 1999, female, curated village voice photography critic vince aletti, wessel + o connor gallery, 100 photographers, including gay artists george platt lynes, cecil beaton, john dugdale, lyle ashton harris, horst p. horst, peter hujar, bill jacobson, hiromitsu morimoto , andy warhol.
september 2016, bruce cratsley: shifting identities, list gallery, swarthmore college, b&w photographs 1977 1998.




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