Kavin Buck | It's Good To Be On The Road Back Home Again | Viewing Room
Kavin Buck, King of California, 2020, acrylic and Flashe on canvas on panel, 36 x 96”
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Elizabeth Leach Gallery is pleased to present Northwest painter Kavin Buck’s latest series of artworks that combine realism and abstraction through luscious hues and multilayered brushstrokes. Buck’s large-scale paintings transmit the atmospheric quality of seasonal weather shifts while his black and white artworks experiment with charcoal, graphite, and gesso mark-making.
Landscape painting is as vital today as ever and for many contemporary painters, the subject matter is a fundamental lens into how they see humanity's place in the world.
–KAVIN BUCK
Kavin Buck, Love You ‘Till The End, 2020-2021, charcoal, conte crayon and gesso on canvas, 42 x 60”
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Buck relies on the abstract, the formal, the structural, to call out to the existential, in the hopes that stripes, color, and shape can speak to despair, joy, anxiety, and loss.
–ED SCHAD
Watch Buck experiment with charcoal painting
TAKING A CLOSER LOOK
In the 10-foot horizontal painting titled A Gentle Madness, 2020, ongoing investigations of line and color are especially evident. A thick vertical row of sun-bleached grassy lines reach toward a glowing saffron sky and transmit mystery beyond the surface of the painting. Buck's bisected composition further reiterates its meditative quality and invites viewers into the immense picture plane.
Kavin Buck, A Gentle Madness, 2020, acrylic and Flashe on canvas on panel, 42 x 120”
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A Gentle Madness, 2020 in progress
Want to learn more about Kavin Buck’s art practice? Take a deep dive with art critic Ed Schad in his essay, Don’t Tell a Soul: Kavin Buck’s Passages Series. Download the article HERE.
Kavin Buck, Let The Day Begin, 2020-2021, charcoal, conte crayon and gesso on canvas, 42 x 60”
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ABOUT THE ARTIST
Watch the live streamed tour of It’s Good To Be On The Road Back Home Again with commentary from Kavin Buck and Gallery Director Daniel Peabody.
Kavin Buck explores formal painting techniques closely associated with modern and contemporary painting, incorporating elements from the surrounding natural world. Buck received his BFA from the Otis College of Art and Design (Los Angeles, CA) and MFA at the California Institute of the Arts (Valencia, CA). He attended the American University/Parsons School of Design in Paris (France) and completed post-graduate studies at the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program (New York, NY). Buck’s art has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including shows at Laguna Art Museum (Laguna Beach, CA), La Estación Arte Contemporaneo (Chihuahua, Mexico), Los Angeles Contemporary Gallery (Los Angeles, CA), University of Virginia Art Museum (Charlottesville, VA), Ruth Bachofner Gallery (Santa Monica, CA), The Drawing Center (New York, NY), and PS1 (Long Island City, NY). His works are included in many private collections. Kavin Buck lives and works in Portland, OR.
