By Avalon Ashley Bellos The first woman waiting inside Pen + Brush wears a crown and looks capable of biting the hand that bestowed it. Deborah Buck’s New Jewels had already seized me among the press images; quite fittingly, its namesake canvas is also the initial confrontation in this retrospective. Nothing about the introduction […]
Pen + Brush is an arts center over 130 years old, located in Flatiron, and will be showcasing over forty artworks for the retrospective of artist Deborah Buck, curated by Summer Guthery. Both the artist and the institution share a joint commitment to supporting the work of women, non-binary, and female-identified transgender artists. In Deborah […]
Deborah Buck’s first solo exhibition at Jennifer Baahng, Deborah Buck: Witches Bridge, on the Upper East Side is curated as a small survey spanning her forty-year career. Buck’s earlier work is a fresh discovery and confirms that she has been an astute observer of painting culture, and lover of paint from the beginning. The works are populated with […]
By Andrew Paul Woolbright Read HERE Deborah Buck’s Into the Wild: To Crash is Divine at La Mama Galleria connects the thinking-through process of drawing to the loose shaping of crowds and identity. Buck’s work breaks down the boundaries between modes of cartooning and abstraction to operate as covert satire. Between her figurescapes and phase […]
Interviewed by Tanya Merrill Painting a cast of characters, human and animal. “I don’t want to be a windup girl,” Deborah Buck told me in her studio, pointing to a female creature with a crank sticking out of her back in the left-hand corner of a recent painting. Buck graciously walked me through the body […]
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The vivacious, 90-piece show, which ranges from sculpture, paintings and photographs to conceptual work, photorealism and tapestry, is a mix of longtime locals and new voices — among them Deborah Buck, who, according to Miller, “paints to the beat of her own drummer.” And the Sagaponack-based artist doesn’t deny that, often using her art to […]
Deborah Buck and Dennis Scholl are interviewed by Parrish Museum Director Terry Sultan at the opening of Scholl’s documentary about Clyfford Still, ” Lifeline “.
When Deborah Buck was at Trinity College in Hartford, one of her textbooks, “Janson’s History of Art,” included no female artists. Art was considered a man’s world even out of the textbooks. “The greatest compliment, in the ’70s, that you could get is ‘you paint like a man’,” Buck says But Buck had a male mentor, abstract […]
From the Archives Deborah Buck Oral History “ I just tried to open my ears as wide as I could and my mind as wide as I could.” As part of the museum’s ongoing research, we have been obtaining oral histories of individuals who figured into Clyfford still’s life and career, though fewer and fewer […]