Exhibition of Cyanotype Photographs by Missoula artist Leland Buck

Exhibition of Cyanotype photographs by Missoula artist Leland Buck.

 

Leland Buck, Artist’s Statement:

I am a photographer and printmaker living in Missoula, Montana. My work predominantly centers on landscape and is focused on history, memory, and place in the changing landscapes of the American West. I make photographs using large format cameras and I print my images using historical/alternative photographic and mechanical printmaking techniques. I seek to present landscapes at the convergence of human and natural history. highlighting the continuity of the past and the present, and giving voice to the fundamental connection humanity has to the land. At a time when human activity now largely defines and threatens the visual landscapes we inhabit, I seek to present work that reveals the beauty of change through decay and dilapidation, making the past seem frozen in time, or in the process of being overtaken with something new. As a life-long resident of the American West, I work to combine lens-based imagery with traditional and experimental printmaking techniques to render a unique vision of the changing world around us.

Leland Buck, Biography:

Leland Buck is a photographer and printmaker living in Missoula, Montana. Originally from southern Colorado, Leland first moved to Montana in the 1980’s to study at the University of Montana. After college he worked in the film and television business and earned a graduate degree in Computer Science before becoming a computer science teacher. He taught Computer Science and Multimedia/Graphic Design for 11 years before moving back to Montana to serve as the Online Editor at the Missoulian Newspaper (2011-2014) and the Digital Director at Mamalode Magazine (2014-2018). He helped found Treesource.org, a non-profit news organization focused on forests in 2017, and he was adjunct faculty at the University of Montana in both the College of Business and School of Journalism. Since 2018, Leland has explored the American West with his large format cameras, and worked in his Missoula studio to render his images in unique ways on paper. He has studied historical and alternative photograhic printing methods extensively, and often blends these processes with traditional intaglio printmaking techniques.