NEW YORK, NY – Chelsea’s Agora Gallery will feature the original work of Bulsby "Buzz" Duncan in the Elemental Realms. The exhibition opens May 19, 2017 and runs through June 8, 2017 with an opening reception on Thursday, May 25 from 6-8 pm
The acrylic paintings of Bulsby "Buzz" Duncan bring together elements from several generations of the vernacular in art to create something completely new. Duncan's paintings vary widely in style; some are text-heavy, others play with the same kind of bold colors and graphic lines that Keith Haring did, and still others embrace the subtle chaos of Neo-Dada. With some works he exercises great control, creating regular lines and exploring careful patterns. With others, his hand changes seemingly spontaneously from one aesthetic to another. What unites all his pieces into a body of work is the obvious firestorm of thought behind them.
Duncan's work certainly contains political elements, including gun imagery and commentary on violence that ties into today's current events. He also creates work that use more general references, such as depictions of human faces, figures, and technology. Many pieces are completely non-representative, relying on strong color choices and evocative textures to tell the story.
Duncan was born in Kingston, Jamaica and raised in Washington, D.C. He has exhibited extensively in D.C., including two solo shows.
Exhibition Dates: May 19, 2017 – June 8, 2017
Reception: Thursday, May 25, 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Gallery Hours: Tues-Sat 11:00am – 6:00pm
Gallery Location: 530 West 25th St, Chelsea, New York
Event URL: http://www.agora-gallery.com/artistpage/Bulsby_Duncan.aspx
Featured Artists:
Elemental Realms
Donna Broder | Wojciech Tut ChechliDski | Bulsby "Buzz" Duncan | Iftah Geva | Marlene Kurland | Isabella S. Minichmair | F. Pavon | Kankan Ramos | Menno Vos
About the Exhibition
Elemental Realms
Agora Gallery presents a modern exploration of texture with the new collective exhibition Elemental Realms. This exhibition covers both abstraction and figurative imagery and includes purely visual surfaces as well as more three-dimensional mixed-media pieces that resemble friezes. Several artists play with paint; it is blotted, it is thinned, it is slicked down, and dry paint is even cracked to create deep shadows. Wrapped up too in these physical manipulations is the way colors blend into one another - or don't. Elsewhere, one artist mixes acrylic with explosions of gold leaf to create a new sub-genre of painting, and another splatters thin ropes of paint in endless layers in a kind of two-dimensional scaffolding. Elemental Realms investigates the ways in which texture conveys information, emotion, and environment
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