Reggie McCafferty
b. 1988
Based in NYC
Email - studio@reggiemccafferty.com
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Bio -
Reggie McCafferty is an artist-photographer based in New York whose practice transposes the American landscape with localized narratives and multi-faceted cultural shifts. More than technique, McCafferty’s work alludes more to the experience of being in an environment and observing the world than the mechanizing of the camera itself. The photographic action becomes a diaristic entry about the transience and impermanence of all moments, in spite of the medium. Place and temporality relinquish their preeminence for a more universal understanding of nostalgia. For McCafferty, composition becomes a vehicle for the creation of strange, often humorous, narratives informed by the collective nostalgia from a cross-generational family history in rural New York. Interested in the tension between poetic fragmentation and visual realism, McCafferty conflates the photographic medium with his parallel practice as a writer, often exploring subjects marked by a temperamental and imperfect authenticity, approximating a fiction of the landscapes presented.
Exhibitions -
“Member Show” Schweinfurth Art Center, Auburn, NY, 2022
“34th Annual Juried Photography Show,” State of the Art Gallery, Ithaca, NY, 2022
”Come High Water,” Park Street Studio, Brooklyn, NY, 2020
”Social Photography VIII,” Carriage Trade, New York, NY, 2020
“The Picnic: Public Parks and the Shape of Communication,” Sheep Meadow, Central Park, New York, NY, 2018
“Intimacy Part II: Two Night Stand,” Rubulad, Brooklyn, NY, 2017
“Aloha From Hell Film Festival,” Public Arts, New York, NY, 2017
“The Newsstand Installation,” Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, 2015
“Alienation,” 59 Orient, Brooklyn, New York, 2014
“Well I’m Glad I Never,” Noh Sense Gallery, Garden Grove, CA, 2014
“1st Show,” Hell & Gone, Brooklyn, NY, 2014
“Sundays Zine Photo Show,” The Newsstand, Brooklyn, NY, 2013
“RIPE – Two Ninety Nine,” Brooklyn, NY, 2013
“Collected Works,” Variety, Brooklyn, NY, 2013
“No Class,” 9 Great Jones, New York, NY, 2013
“No Class,” Ansonia Creative House, Miami, FL, 2013
“The Fortune They Would Not Tell,” Global Studios, Portland, ME, 2013
“Sick People Zine Show,” Two Ninety Nine, Brooklyn, NY, 2012
“Someday,” 185 South 4th, Brooklyn, NY, 2012
“Don’t Trust Anyone Over 30,” Creatures Creating, Toronto, 2012
Selected Publications -
Come High Water, 2020
The Picnic: Public Parks and the Shape of Communication, 2018
Public Discourse, 2016
Sanctuary / Baker’s Block, 2016
La marca del Angel, 2015
A Survey of Friendly Photography, 2015
Uglier, Dirtier, Nastier, Noisier, 2015
Blackbox Radio Vol. 1, 2015
So It Goes, 2015
Colden 2, 2014
Alienation, 2014
Ugly, Dirty, Nasty, Noisy, 2014
Sundays Issue 16, 2014
Colden 1, 2013
Sick People Vol. 2, 2013
Ripe - A Photobook with Reggie McCafferty and Julio Pardo, 2013
Permanent Sleep: Hemifran, 2013
Sundays Issue 9, 2012
Someday, 2012
So Young, 2012
Don’t Trust Anyone Over 30, 2012
Blank Stare: Distractions From Everyday Life, 2011
Sick People Vol. 1, 2011
Imitations of Drowning, 2011
Come Oblivion, 2010