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May Issue 2009
Oliver's Southern
Folk Art in Hendersonville, NC, Features Works by Beverly Buchanan
Oliver's
Southern Folk Art in Hendersonville, NC, will present the exhibit
of works by Beverly Buchanan on view from May 1 - 30, 2009.
Western North Carolina will have the opportunity to see a nice exhibitions of works by one of the most important African-American artist living today. She is best known for her "shack drawings" and her interpretations of southern rural architecture.
Buchanan has her roots in North Carolina soil, being born in 1940, in Fuquay, but was raised in Orangeburg, SC. She later came back to North Carolina and studied at Bennett College in Greensboro, NC, and finished up her MS and MPH at Columbia University in New York.
During the 1960s and 70s Buchanan worked in the health care profession and an interest in art developed. She had a few lessons with Norman Lewis at the Art Students League in New York, but it was her mentor Romare Bearden, the noted collage artist, that encouraged and inspired her to explore her southern culture.
In the late 1970s Buchanan started making her little shacks from found materials and presented them as an homage to the share-croppers and farmers of the south. As her work became more popular and sought after by New York collectors, she started doing larger drawings and works on paper and canvas. To get closer to her beloved southern territory, she moved to Georgia in 1977 and continued with her exploration of what makes this area so special. In the next 30 years Buchanan went on to create many wonderful drawings of shack, flowers and people. In each piece she shows great energy and expression of color.
Buchanan has works in museums and cooperate collections all over the United States, such as the High, Georgia Museum, Metropolitan and the Whitney to mention a few. She has also received many honors such as a J.S. Guggenheim Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and a College Art Association Art Achievement Award.
For further information
check our NC Commercial Gallery listings, call the gallery at
828/698-7877 or visit (www.oliversfolk.com).
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