A Great Loss: Jerry Burchfield

Laguna Wilderness Press is saddened to share that we have lost one of our founders, Jerry Burchfield. He passed away on September 11th, 2009 after a long battle with cancer. He was 62.

Jerry Burchfield was an artist, curator, author and educator living in Southern California. From 1973 to 1987, Burchfield was the co-owner with Mark Chamberlain of BC Space Gallery, a pioneering alternative gallery space dedicated to showing non-conformist contemporary photography. From 1987 until recently, he was a Professor of Photography and Photography Gallery Director at Cypress College, Cypress, California.

Known as an environmentally conscious artist-activist, Burchfield's work has received numerous awards including a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and has been exhibited throughout the United States, Europe and Japan.

Jerry was a great man, a fantastic photographer, and a brilliant artist. He will be missed. Our thoughts and prayers go out to his family and friends.

At present, we are awaiting information regarding his memorial services. Once available, we promise to share this information by request. To see a selection of Jerry's work or read more about him, please visit our website at www.lagunawildernesspress.com or his personal website at www.jerryburchfield.com.

Upcoming Events

2009 Events:

Fall:

CARL BERG PROJECTS @ Pacific Design Center

Presenting the work of Paul Paiement:Reception September 24th, 5-8pm Gallery Hours: Tues-Fri 12-5pmDistance: Photographs by Jerry Burchfield. ...about eventBrand 38 by Jacques Garnier ... about event

DREAM STREET Exhibition

Boehm Gallery, Palomar College, N San Diego County.

September 1-22, 2009

Artist's Lecture: Tuesday, September 1st @ noon

Artist's Reception and Book Signing: Tuesday, September 1st from 4pm-6pm

Gallery Hours: Tuesday from 10am-4pm, Wednesday-Thursday from 10am-7pm, Friday-Saturday 10am-2pm

1140 W. Mission Road, San Marcos, CA 92069

Nature's laguna Wilderness book is available at the Nix Nature Center in Laguna Canyon. Also check out the display featuring the Tell Mural by Jerry Burchfield and Mark Chamberlain.

Location: Laguna Coast Wilderness Park at Little Sycamore Canyon on SR 133, north of the 73 Tollroad and 3.5 miles south of the I-405 and SR 133 interchangeSchedule: 9 a.m.-4 p.m. daily, including holidays; free admissionParking: Lot open 8 a.m.-4 p.m.; $3

2010 Events:

1.) In February, 2010 Cal State Fullerton's Grand Central Gallery will be doing a special show and hardbound book on BC Space Gallery.

2.) Jerry will be part of a group show in Huang Shan, China called "Nature Re:Viewed" in 2010, featuring Understory.

Understory: Florida Lumen Prints, by Jerry Burchfield

March 2009, 11" x 9.5", 96 pages approx, 115 photographs

In 2004, Laguna Wilderness Press, in conjunction with the Center for American Places at Columbia College Chicago, was proud to release Primal Images: 100 Lumen Prints of Amazonia Flora, a fascinating and beautifully rendered exhibition of vegetation from the Amazon by one of our founders, Jerry Burchfield.

Read reviews from Jonathan Green and Thomas McGovern

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The Edge of Air: The Final Days of MCAS El Toro, by The Legacy Project

Summer 2005, 10.5" x 8.5", 96 pages, 70 photographs The Edge of Air, a ninety-six-page book presenting the photographs of The Legacy Project, which consists of six Southern California photographers: Jerry Burchfield, Mark Chamberlain, Jacques Garnier, Robert Johnson, Douglas McCulloh, and Clayton Spada. This extensive documentation project, which began in April 2002 and chronicles the controversial shuttered Marine Corps Air Station El Toro located in the heart of Orange County, California on the eve of its transformation into one of the nation's largest metropolitan parks, the Orange County Great Park. Read reviews from Coast Magazine, Laguna Beach Independent, and Irvine World ConnectionsTo place an order for this title, feel free to click Here,

Primal Images: 100 Lumen Prints of Amazonia Flora by Jerry Burchfield

Fall 2004, 11.5" x 9.5", 144 pages, 100 photographs This unique, 144-page oversized book features Lumen photograms that celebrate the beauty of Amazon flora. 100 color plates will feature these historically unique one-of-a-kind images that are made on-site by Burchfield in the Amazon rainforests. In addition, color photographs of the Amazon environment will be interspersed among text essays by Wade Davis, Jonathan Green, and Burchfield. The book's premire showing was at UCR/California Museum of Photography in the fall of 2003. Read reviews from Artweek, Coast Magazine, The Orange County Register, Rangefinder Magazine, Riviera, and Apogee Photo Magazine To place an order for this title, feel free to click Here