Beverly Buchanan (October 8, 1940 - July 4, 2015) is an African-American artist whose work includes painting, sculpture, video and art of the land. Buchanan is famous for exploring the vernacular architecture of the South through his art.
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Buchanan was born in Fuquay, North Carolina, but grew up in Orangeburg, South Carolina, where her father was the dean of the Agricultural School at South Carolina State College, which was then the only state school for African Americans in South Carolina.
In 1962 Buchanan graduated from Bennett College, in Greensboro, North Carolina, a historic black female college, with a bachelor's degree in medical technology. He went on to attend Columbia University, where he received a master's degree in Parasitology in 1968, and a master's degree in Public Health in 1969.
Although he was accepted into medical school, Buchanan decided not to leave because of his desire to dedicate more time to his art. In 1971, he enrolled in a class taught by Norman Lewis at the Art Students League in New York City. Lewis, along with artist Romare Bearden, became a friend and mentor for Buchanan. Buchanan decided to become a full-time artist in 1977 after exhibiting her work on a new talent show at Betty Parsons Gallery. That same year, he moved to Macon, Georgia.
On July 4, 2015, Buchanan died in Ann Arbor, Michigan at the age of seventy-four.
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Careers
Buchanan has created images, sculptures, prints, videos, and land art.
In 1976 and 1977, Buchanan drew a "black wall" on paper. He "wants to see what the wall looks like on the other side" and puts four walls together in three dimensions. He then started to sculpt on the cement. An example of three-dimensional work from the beginning of his career is a statue of "Ruins and Rituals" at the Museum of Arts and Sciences in Macon, Georgia, part of a series of concrete structures that remind us of ancient tombs.
Buchanan is famous for his many paintings and sculptures in the "hut", an imperfect residence associated with the poor. Scholar Janet T. Marquardt argues that Buchanan treats the hut not as a documentary element but as "a picture of endurance and personal history"; often using bright colors and childlike modes of simplicity, the works "awaken the warmth and happiness that can be found even in the most cruel dwellings, representing faith and care not reserved for special classes." His art takes the form of stone pillars, bric-a brac assemblages, funny poems, self-portraits and sculptural huts. Yet strong collective themes of identity, place, and memory combine the works that reveal the animus that divides it: to connect with the people around it and take into account the history that shapes its community.
In 1981 Buchanan created the Marsh Marsh, an expensive temporary arts sculpture in Georgia near the commented site known as "Marshes of Glenn." To the east of the workplace is Saint Simons Island, where a group of Igbos sold as slaves collectively drowned themselves in 1803. This work witnessed the unmarked history of the enslaved. There he planted three concrete shapes and covered them with a layer of tabby, a mixture used in the slave dwellings. Marsh Marsh gradually lowered into a swamp. Buchanan catches the erosion process in the video.
Buchanan says of his work, "My work is a logical development of my early interest in texture and surfaces and walls." The "early" wall is lonely, free-standing, fragmented things.When I live in New York I search for things that are destroyed.That gives them character.I like to imagine who might live in the apartment, and whose home may be. families who moved repainted their color walls.While a building was torn down from various layers of exposed colors, it was almost surgical - like looking through a microscope and looking at different layers of tissue and media. "
In the fall of 2016, a comprehensive exhibition of his work was opened at the Brooklyn Museum at Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Femist Art. Beverly Buchanan - Ruins and Rituals features paintings, sculptures, drawings, and notebooks and photographs of the artist forming his personal archive.
Buchanan's works are featured at the Independent Art Fair 2017 at the Andrew Edlin Gallery booth. Buchanan has commented, "Many of my pieces have the word 'ruins' in their titles because I think that tells you this object has gone through many things and endures - that's the idea behind the statue... it's like,' Here I am; I still here!' "
Buchanan's works are in the collection of the United States Art Gallery at the Phillips Gallery in Andover, Massachusetts, Georgia Museum of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Whitney Museum of American Art.
Awards
- 1980: Guggenheim Fellowship and National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship.
- 1990: National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in sculpture.
- 1997: Georgia Visual Arts honoree.
- 2002: Anonymous is a Women's Award.
- 2005: Art Committee of the Women's College of Arts in the Arts receives a respectable award
- 2011: Award caucus award for lifelong Art for women
Single selected exhibits
List of exhibits catalog "9 Women in Georgia"
- A retrospective travel fair organized by the Montclair Art Museum to nine museums and college galleries, 1994-96
- Steinbaum Krauss Gallery, New York, 1993
- Schering-Plow Headquarters Gallery, Madison, NJ, 1992
- Three Rivers Art Festival, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1992
- Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA, 1992
- Jacksonville Art Museum, Florida, 1992
- Gallery Bernie Steinbaum, New York, 1991, 1990
- School of Arts and Crafts Oregon, Portland, 1991
- Museum of Greenville County, South Carolina, 1991
- Fairleigh Dickenson University, Rutherford, NJ, 1990
- Museum of Art and Science, Macon, GA 1990
- Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC, 1989
- Heath Gallery, Atlanta, GA 1987, 1986, 1981
- University of Alabama, 1982
- Kornblee Gallery, New York, 1981
- Truman Gallery, New York, 1978
- Mercer University, Macon, GA, 1977
- Upsala College, East Orange, NJ, 1974
- Cinque Gallery, New York, 1972
References
External links
- Official website
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