July 1 – 31, 2021

In Conversation with Kavin Buck: Live Stream Exhibition Tour
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Thursday, July 1, 2021, 6:00 pm PST

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. 

Kavin Buck received his MFA at the California Institute of the Arts (Valencia, CA) and his BFA from the Otis College of Art and Design (Los Angeles, CA). He attended the American University/Parsons School of Design in Paris (France) and completed post-graduate studies with the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program (New York, NY). In 1990-91 he was a member at the PS1/MoMA National and International Studio Program. Buck’s artwork is represented by the Elizabeth Leach Gallery in Portland, Oregon and has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including shows at Laguna Art Museum (Laguna Beach, CA), La Estacion Arte Contemporaneo (Chihuahua, MX), Los Angeles Contemporary Gallery (catalog with an essay by Ed Schad), University of Virginia Art Museum (Charlottesville, VA), Ruth Bachofner Gallery (Santa Monica, CA), The Drawing Center (New York, NY), and the PS1 Museum (Long Island City, NY). His works are included in many public, private, and corporate collections in the US and internationally.