Buck Ellison

Courtesy of the artist

This donation, by artist Buck Ellison, includes one portrait sitting at the patron’s home. The work will be accompanied by a signed certificate of authenticity. The session will normally last 1.5 hours and Buck will choose one final portrait. The editing/printing process can take 2-4 weeks after the sitting: the print will either be delivered or mailed to the sitter or a framer. This price excludes printing, framing, travel, and lodging for Buck and his assistant. We ask that the sitting take place within one year from the purchase date.

Buck Ellison (b. 1987, San Francisco, lives and works in Los Angeles) broadly investigates the language of privilege through meticulously researched images, often executed through staged settings and performative interventions into the visual language of photography. On the surface, many of Ellison's images appear to mildly reproduce the habits of comfortable, white, upper-middle-class families. However, lurking beneath this is a deep network of enquiry into how whiteness and privilege are sustained and broadcast. His works showcase the mechanisms that quietly, even politely, obscure inequality in the United States.

Buck Ellison (b. 1987, San Francisco), lives and works in Los Angeles. Graduated from Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main in 2014 & Columbia University, Columbia College, New York, 2010. Selected exhibitions include Made in LA 2020: A version, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Huntington Museum, Pasadena, USA, 2020; The Meeting, New York, 2017, Louisa, La Paix, Paris, 2016, Modesty, Weiss Berlin, 2016, Country Day, Bad Bentheim Castle, Burg Bentheim, 2015 (cat.), Ratio 3, San Francisco, 2014; Antarctica, Kunsthalle Wien, 2018, Shutter, Carnelutti, Milan, 2018, Where We Meet, Inman Gallery, Houston, 2018, Case Study, Balice Hertling, Paris, 2017, Golden State, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, 2017 (cat.), Tilting At Windmills, Roberta, Frankfurt am Main, 2017, Mad Horizon, Index, Stockholm, 2016 (cat.), New German Photography, On Stellar Rays, New York, 2016 (cat.), The Sun Placed In The Abyss, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, 2016 (cat), Misanthrope-NY, Mathew Gallery, New York, 2015, The Social Register, Park View, Los Angeles, 2015, Villa Aurora Revisited, Balice Hertling, New York, 2015, Pashmina, Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt, 2014 (cat.).