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 […]
The Heckscher Museum interviewed Deborah Buck on the inclusion of her painting , They Had Stars in Their Eyes in their exhibit, “The Rains Are Changing Fast; New Acquisitions in Context “ Read the full article here: https://www.heckscher.org/collection-spotlight-deborah-bucks-they-had-stars-in-their-eyes/
” Deborah Buck’s energy is preternatural and her generosity of spirit seems to flow from the same deep well. We met at a wedding several years ago, and I learned that her path to becoming a full-time artist was not the usual one, largely because her creative drive was broad, democratic, and highly entrepreneurial.”
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 […]