Bushwick Community Darkroom: Lucy Perkins
Wandering amongst Brooklyn’s chaotic street culture and in the silent ebb of night, Lucy Perkins taps into meditative energy with her muted photographs. Her lens often lands on the barriers New Yorkers line their streets with, living rooms divorced from the hectic streets by baroque grates and metal fences. Patterned textures, menacing shadows and idiosyncratic architecture play silently below a taupe sky, the resulting images almost monochromatic. Perkins captures the moments where the city exhales, dead and wary in its brief pause before the early morning rush. Her works capture exteriors as both ornament and defense, carefully tracing the flow of energy in city that bursts with it come dawn.
Lucy Perkins is an intern at Bushwick Community Darkroom. This spring she will graduate from Bennington College (Vermont) with a BFA in Fine Arts, Photography Concentration. In 2017, Perkins was on a student team which co-curated an exhibition of Laura Gilpin’s platinum prints at the Bennington Museum of Art. In addition to analog photography, her practice encompasses drawing and installation.
BCD aims to make film photography affordable and accessible by providing printing and development services, thus removing the largest barrier to entry for one of the most accessible art forms. By also providing community-led photography workshops, gallery events, and a membership program, BCD creates a flexible and growth-oriented structure within a creative environment. Seasonal exhibitions within the 3,000 square foot warehouse in Bushwick, Brooklyn create opportunities for burgeoning photographers to showcase their work alongside music and multimedia art.
