Elizabeth Leach Gallery is pleased to present Northwest painter Kavin Buck’s latest series of artworks that combine realism and abstraction through luscious hues and multilayered brushstrokes. Buck’s large-scale paintings transmit the atmospheric quality of seasonal weather shifts while his black and white artworks experiment with charcoal, graphite, and gesso mark-making.
In the 10-foot horizontal painting titled A Gentle Madness, 2020, ongoing investigations of line and color are especially evident. A thick vertical row of sun-bleached grassy lines reach toward a glowing saffron sky and transmit mystery beyond the surface of the painting. Buck's bisected composition further reiterates its meditative quality and invites viewers into the immense picture plane.
