Beverly Buchanan: Stone Works and Shacks

Lower Gallery
January 14 - March 1, 2025

Exhibition Catalogue

“Rather than being remembered for an enduring beauty or grace, ultimately Buchanan's oeuvre will be recognized for its powerful observations about the inherent strength of the human spirit.”

Trinkett Clark

"I want to give people who can neither read nor write but made all the measurements and built their own barns and shacks a different way of looking at themselves. My fascination is with buildings and ruins. But there’s more fascination with life and its positive aspects."

Beverly Buchanan

"[Buchanan's work has] an unfinished quality in the same sense that Vincent van Gogh's paintings feel unfinished, allowing the viewer to almost grasp the artist's fugitive feelings."

Ellen Flomenhaft

"[Buchanan's] concern was with the ways in which ruins can evoke decay, neglect, unknowability and loss, while standing at the same time as images of persistence and perseverance."

Amelia Groom