Derek Buckner

Born 1970, Derek Buckner currently lives in Brooklyn, NY, with his wife, the novelist Joanna Hershon and their two sons Wyatt and Noah.

Derek Buckner utilizes a variety of sources for his paintings video imagery of urban landscapes taken from airplanes and moving cars, models of dystopia's constructed in the studio, and most recently, piles upon piles of ubiquitous marshmallows. What connects Buckner's past works American Perspectives, The UFO series, and now his latest Marshmallow series-- is a focus on density and proliferation.


Multi-level highways spanning indeterminate miles, details of monolithic overpasses, suburban wastelands rendered ominously from a birds eye perspective, rows of buildings, automobiles, concrete. In Buckners paintings the constructed environment has subsumed nature and there seems little possibility for anything excepting perpetual expansion. Buckner relays a sense of discomfort, foreboding and anxiety at such a reality -- and the feeling of disconnectedness from -- both built, and natural environments is palpable. And yet, amidst this inhospitable landscape, there persists an undeniableeven exaltedbeauty.


In the Marshmallow series the intensity of this inquiry has remained...

EDUCATION:

Laguardia High School of Music and Art
Vassar College
The Art Students League of New York
B.F.A., The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Boston Museum School: Stonecarving Program, Carrara, Italy

EXHIBITIONS:
Solo

2010
George Billis Gallery New York April 22nd through May 22nd

2009
George Billis Gallery Los Angeles Feb- March 2009
2008

George Billis Gallery,New York
Slocumb Gallery,East Tennessee State University

2007
Works on Paper, George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles

2006
American Perspectives, George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
American Perspectives, George Billis Gallery, New York, NY

2005
George Billis Gallery, New York, NY
Pamela Williams Gallery, Amagansett, NY
Carol Craven Gallery, Martha's Vineyard, MA

2004
Lizan Tops Gallery, East Hampton, NY

2002
Carol Craven Gallery, Martha's Vineyard, MA
Laurel Tracey Gallery, Red Bank, NJ

2001
Lizan Tops Gallery, East Hampton, NY,
Carol Craven Gallery, Martha's Vineyard MA

Group Shows

2008
New Life Visuals, New Life Shop, Berlin
Small Works Show, 440 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
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