Charles Buckley

Charles Buckley was born and raised near the beach in sunny Southern California. He went to California College of Art in Oakland and moved to Brooklyn to attend Hunter College where he got his MFA. His work in private collections across the United States and Europe and he exhibits with the Susan Eley Gallery in New York.

Buckley's current body of work, The Striated Drawings, explores memory, forgetting, and the nature of nostalgia. Made with ink, the drawings are composed entirely of horizontal lines and the negative, undrawn space between them. He had the idea after finding some photographs his father had taken of the moon landing on live television in 1969. The CRT lines of the old tv were prominent and the images evoked a nostalgia within him that he has been investigating ever since.

The works draw from both found and personal photographs, lending them an initial sense of familiarity. But that familiarity is unstable. Up close, representation dissolves into abstraction; the particulars grow hazy and give way to the rhythm of the lines themselves. Much of the pictorial information has been stripped away, yet a sense of narrative integrity remains and the viewer is left to fill in what is missing.
This is precisely the point. ...

2000 Hunter College, New York, NY. MFA, painting
1994 California College Of Arts, Oakland, CA. BFA, painting

2025
The Other Art Fair, Brooklyn (May)
2024
Femme, Susan Eley Fine Art, NY
The Other Art Fair, Brooklyn (May)
2023
The Black & White Show, Susan Eley Fine Art, Hudson, NY
The Other Art Fair, Brooklyn, NY (November)
The Other Art Fair, Brooklyn, NY (May)
2022
The Other Art Fair, Brooklyn, NY (November)
The Other Art Fair, Brooklyn, NY (June)
Sprung, Susan Eley Fine Art, NYC
The Archeology of Memory (Two person show), Susan Eley Fine Art, Hudson, NY
2020
Americana, Susan Eley Fine Art, NYC
Paper Trail, Susan Eley Fine Art, NYC
2019
Art Toronto, Susan Eley Fine Art, NYC
Vroom Vroom Beep Beep, Susan Eley Fine Art, NYC
2018
In Flux, La Bodega Gallery, Brooklyn
2016
In Flux / La Bodega Gallery - Brooklyn
Context Art Miami, Susan Eley Fine Art, NYC
2014
Context Art Miami, Susan Eley Fine Art, NYC
Summer Selects, Susan Eley Fine Art, NYC
Bridge Art Fair, Susan Eley Fine Art, NYC
2013
Ransom, Wayfarers, Brooklyn
2012
Four of Five New Paintings (solo show), Giacobetti Paul Gallery, Brooklyn
2009
Intro Show, Giacobetti Paul Gallery, Brooklyn
2008
Pop Art 2.0, Susan Eley Fine Art, NYC
SummerGroup Show: Selected Works 2007/2008, Madarts, Brooklyn
Winter Show. Madarts, Brookln
2007
Momentum, Madarts, Brooklyn
Spring Show, Madarts, Brookly...