Robert Buck
Robert Buck's body of work stages encounters between objects and viewers. His work is poetic, engaging, visceral, and sometimes violent. Buck uses a myriad of materials including wound filler, skulls, film, lithography, paint, and photography. In an on-going series of drawings he uses text and imagery from personality assessment tests and psychological case studies. The incorporation of previous drawings and the use of latent finger print powder evince palimpsests of poignant or troubled psychologies.
Buck has described his artwork as having been a means to create an index by which he could make sense of earlier, often traumatic experiences that at the time he could not bear, symbolise, or make legible so as to endure or transcend them. Evidence of this struggle infuses the work in the form of bodies, wounds, holes, camouflage, mimicry, memorials, erasures, guilt, corruption, sex, and death.
Recently Buck has displayed solo exhibitions at galleries such as The Iceberg Projects in Chicago, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, CRG Gallery in New York, Rennie Collection in Vancouver, and Anthony Meier Fine Arts in San Francisco. Recent group exhibitions includeshows at the Wellcome Collection in London, The Museum of Modern Art in New York, Neue Gesellschaft …
Robert Buck's body of work stages encounters between objects and viewers. His work is poetic, engaging, visceral, and sometimes violent. Buck uses a myriad of materials including wound filler, skulls, film, lithography, paint, and photography. In an on-going series of drawings he uses text and imagery from personality assessment tests and psychological case studies. The incorporation of previous drawings and the use of latent finger print powder evince palimpsests of poignant or troubled psychologies.
Buck has described his artwork as having been a means to create an index by which he could make sense of earlier, often traumatic experiences that at the time he could not bear, symbolise, or make legible so as to endure or transcend them. Evidence of this struggle infuses the work in the form of bodies, wounds, holes, camouflage, mimicry, memorials, erasures, guilt, corruption, sex, and death.
Recently Buck has displayed solo exhibitions at galleries such as The Iceberg Projects in Chicago, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, CRG Gallery in New York, Rennie Collection in Vancouver, and Anthony Meier Fine Arts in San Francisco. Recent group exhibitions includeshows at the Wellcome Collection in London, The Museum of Modern Art in New York, Neue Gesellschaft fur bildende Kunst e.V. (NGBK)' in Berlin, LUX in London, San Francisco Museum of Art, Columbus College of Art and Design in Ohio, and Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Project Space in New York. Buck's works are included in prominent collections internationally, including the Art Gallery of Ontario, Dallas Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art in New York, Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, Zabludowicz Collection in London, J. Getty Museum of Art in Los Angeles
Courtesy of Stephen Friedman Gallery
