Description
My Mechanical Sketchbook — Barkley L. Hendricks & Photography is from the collection of the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University.
This exhibition focuses on the significant and multifaceted role of the camera and the photographic image within Barkley L. Hendricks’s artistic practice. The show presents Hendricks’s photographs as autonomous artworks, models for oil paintings, and as “mechanical sketchbooks”—to cite the artist’s own words—that helped Hendricks capture and recall sights and insights. The exhibition illuminates the deep connections between Hendricks’s myriad forms of creative expression with photographs, Polaroids, paintings, and works on paper.
Showcasing new scholarship and rarely-exhibited artworks, this exhibition catalog for My Mechanical Sketchbook provides a deeper understanding of the diverse sources informing Hendricks’s multiple modes of creativity, offering new knowledge about this significant and versatile artist.
