JEF BOURGEAU
PAINTING
PHOTOGRAPHY
Figurative / Abstract
Jef Bourgeau is a Detroit painter, curator, photographer and conceptual artist who has become best known through his sculptures, digital and curatorial work. The most notable of Bourgeau's work plays on the relationship between iconic imagery and irreverent materials, together forming a new context often drawing upon current controversies and, perhaps, the willfully provocative.
An undiagnosed dyslexic, Bourgeau never finished his education. He spent his teen years working at a box factory in his home town of Detroit. During that time, utilizing the materials at hand, he began to make and experiment with several pinhole cameras. The early work from these rudimentary cameras developed into dark, moody photographs and paintings. Bourgeau has since remarked that he can only see 'right' through a camera lens.
Bourgeau is the founding director of the Museum of New Art (MONA), of Detroit's artCORE (empty storefronts to galleries), and co-founder of the Detroit Center for Contemporary Photography.
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*Jef Bourgeau is represented by Robert Kidd Gallery | Birmingham, MI and BCB Gallery | Hudson, NY.
