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View from the Downpour

January 26, 2006- March 11, 2006

Jason Buchanan

511 Gallery

529 W 20th St

511 Gallery is pleased to present, in its West Space, the drawings of Texas artist Jason Buchanan. In these large charcoal works on paper, Buchanan’s mark-makings and erasures directly reference the forces and sublimity of nature: giant swirls within vortexes that appear as if backlit by some blinding sun. We are reminded of the painter Joseph Turner’s landscapes of deluges and fires; Buchanan is able to evoke similar cataclysmic events with black, grey, and white his only shades and colors. The works are as painterly as they are highly conceptualized. The artist sees the act of drawing as immediate and unstable, a correlation to the natural event itself. “It is my desire that every detail within my drawings be visible, as if the image were in flux, ready to change at any moment,” Buchanan has written. The choice of charcoal as medium is also predicated on its properties of transparency.

Jason Buchanan received his MFA in 2005 from the University of Texas at Austin. His work has been shown in a solo exhibition at the Messing Gallery in St. Louis, recently in the three-person group show Rising Stars, curated by Till Richter at Studio 107 in Austin, and in a group exhibition at the Williams Tower Gallery in Houston. He has been the recipient of several awards and grants at the University of Texas, including a teaching assistantship at Castiglion Fiorentino, Italy. Originally from Colorado, the artist now lives and works in Austin, Texas. This is his first exhibition in New York.

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