Richard Bruck

      Richard Bruck is respected internationally for his work in fine art holography. With a background in professional photography, he began working in the new medium of holography in Chicago, in 1981, at the School of Fine Arts Research and Museum of Holography. After receiving a certificate of completion for coursework, he has since attended and helped teach numerous sessions at the prestigious Lake Forest College Holography Workshops in Lake Forest, Illinois.

      While some artists hire holographers to produce their holograms, Mr. Bruck produces his own, having built his own laboratory facilities and company. He produces work in many facets of holography in addition to fine art, including research and development, industrial applications, commercial production, and education.

      Mr. Bruck has exhibited his personal work in one man and group shows throughout the Midwest, New York, and overseas. In the summer of 2006 he presented a paper and recent work at an international symposium and exhibition on holography in Wales, U.K. He has received grants and scholarships to attend similar symposiums and conferences in Austria, Bulgaria, China, and Great Britain. He is also the author of several published papers that discuss art concepts in the medium.

      Along with producing his own work, he has colllaborated with and produced holograms for other artists in the field, notably the late Michigan artist Richard Kline, Anait Stephens, Douglas Tyler, and Harriet Casdin-Silver, some work of which is in the collection of The Museum of Modern Art in New York.

      Of his current work he writes: "There has been a progression from a desire to produce images made purely of light, to now give an experience of being immersed in light."

      Mr. Bruck now lives and works in Grayslake, Illinois, and teaches holography at Columbia College in Chicago.