Elizabeth Leach Gallery is pleased to present Waiting for the Sun to Fall, Northwest painter Kavin Buck’s fourth solo exhibition with the gallery. A suite of bold new large-scale paintings seize the gallery walls and oscillate between realism and abstraction with a deliberate, hand-hewn energy. They each obliquely reflect their origin of creation, pointing to spaces real and imagined by use of concentrated hues, distinctive brushwork and dramatic mark-making; signature distinctions of Buck’s flourishing oeuvre. Their intricacies reward close study by way of brush striations which describe the gravity that divides land and sky within a vaguely familiar landscape.
Larger scale works made with a more dramatic application of brush strokes recall the romantic vistas of the Pacific Northwest and create an enveloping field the viewer can disappear into. The effect can be both aquatic and terrestrial through his masterful use of glazing techniques.
The more intimate watercolors - more wrist then elbow - are created in the lush West Coast style. Though primarily abstract in tone, they allude to elements of the representational world and speak in rhyming cadence with the more heroic acrylic paintings which share the room.
