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Jerry
Burchfield,
Jerry Burchfield is an artist, curator, author and educator living in Southern California. From 1973 to 1987, Burchfield was the co-owner/director/curator with Mark Chamberlain of BC Space Gallery, a pioneering gallery space dedicated to showing contemporary photography. Since 1987, he has been a professor of photography and Photography Gallery Director at Cypress College, Cypress, California. His work is in numerous collections and has been exhibited throughout the United States, Europe and Japan. |
| Burchfield's current work uses a cameraless photographic technique to make what he has named Lumen prints. Similar to making a photogram under a darkroom enlarger, Burchfield pulls specimen plants from the river and forest and places them on top of unexposed out-dated black and white photographic enlarging paper. Weighted down with a sheet of glass and left to bake in the Amazon sun, the black and white paper reveals surprisingly colorful images that result from the mingling of plant juices and light. |  |
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Each Lumen print is an original and very hard to reproduce. This is where Burchfield came to Photomation for help. "He first showed me prints from an Iris printer in 1999," said John Hesketh, director of color management at Photomation. "The artist liked the colors, but there was something missing. I asked him if was looking for a closer color match and explained that using Photomation's LightJet printer and Fuji's Crystal Archive Photo paper to make a DigitalMaster mural would look a lot closer to the original." Ever since then, Burchfield has been an artist-in-edition with Photomation. |
| "I have done a lot of custom printing throughout my career as an artist and teacher. What Photomation has done with this work goes beyond what I could have done myself using camera and film," Burchfield says. "I was also limited in scale as to what I could take to the Amazon and work with on the boat. Photomation allowed me a way to enlarge the work to a size, scale, and quality that worked for exhibition." |  |
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Burchfield's current work, "Primal Images," is a major project about environmental change in the Amazon, Hawaii, and Southern California. The inaugural exhibition of the Amazon portion of this project is on exhibit September 17, 2003, to January 11, 2004, at the UCR California Museum of Photography in downtown Riverside. The exhibition includes 100 photographs consisting mostly the smaller Lumen originals, as well as several large 30"x24" DigitalMaster edition murals printed by Photomation. |
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