Alumni
Baxter St at CCNY has long been a catalyst for innovative creation within the artistic mediums of photography and video practices. Ranging from exhibitions, residency programs, and partnerships, our core mission is to support and activate a vibrant community deeply engaged in the art of lens-based contemporary practices. Take a look at the wide breadth of alumni that are a part of our wonderful and ever-expanding community.
ARTISTS
R.Hardwick Weston
Baxter St. Residency ()
ARTISTS
R.Hardwick Weston
Baxter St. Residency ()
The Three Traumas
R. Hardwick Weston is an image-based artist/scholar whose work combines photography, collage and experimental criticism. In his work he explores the principle of “visual criticism” that Walter Benjamin called Bilderkritik or “criticism through images.” His work has appeared in Social Text, Rethinking Marxism, Convolution, and at the Guggenheim Museum’s “24-Hour Program on the Concept of Time” (2009). From 2009 to 2011, Hardwick Weston lived and worked in Ramallah, Palestine, where he served as the Associate Dean of the Al-Quds Bard College of Liberal Arts and Sciences where this project had its genesis. Hardwick Weston holds a Ph.D. from Columbia University and serves on the faculty at Bard College where he teaches philosophy, theory, and human rights.
