You are here

Beverly Buchanan—Ruins and Rituals

Country:

City:

Categories:

Date: 
Friday, 21 October 2016 to Sunday, 5 March 2017

Beverly Buchanan (1940–2015) explored the relationship between memory—personal, historical, and geographical—and place. Engaging with the most vanguard movements of her time, including Land Art, Post-Minimalism, and feminism, she linked political and social consciousness to the formal aesthetics of abstraction.

The most comprehensive exhibition of Buchanan’s work to date, Beverly Buchanan—Ruins and Rituals presents approximately 200 objects, including sculpture, painting, photography, drawing, and notebooks of the artist’s writing as well as documentation of performances. A new video installation of her existing earthworks is presented for the first time.

Emphasizing how Buchanan’s work resisted easy categorization, this exhibition investigates her dialogue not only with a range of styles, materials, and movements, but also with gender, race, and identity. Works on view examine histories of locations where she lived and worked, including Florida, New York, and Georgia.

According to Buchanan, "… a lot of my pieces have the word 'ruins' in their titles because I think that tells you this object has been through a lot and survived—that’s the idea behind the sculptures…it’s like, 'Here I am; I’m still here!' "

caption: Installation view. Jonathan Dorado/Brooklyn Museum

Telephone: 
718-638-5000
Venue ( Address ): 

Brooklyn Museum

Brooklyn Museum , Brooklyn

Other events from Brooklyn Museum

view
The Brooklyn Conference: Inspiring Social Change
10/19/2017 to 10/21/2017
view
Artist's Eye: Laurie Simmons and Carroll Dunham on Marilyn Minter
03/11/2017
view
Georgia O’Keeffe: Living Modern
03/03/2017 to 07/23/2017
view
Infinite Blue
11/25/2016 to 11/05/2017

Pages

 

Related Shows This Week

view
"Floating World: The Light the Bird Sees"
02/24/2024 to 04/06/2024
view
Monty Montgomery Opening Reception: “Intersection”
03/10/2024 to 04/28/2024
view
Artists on the Bowery Part 5: Berthot, Diao, Hammond, Nevelson, Quaytman, Yamaoka
03/14/2024 to 05/11/2024
view
Kent Manske: Making Sense
03/21/2024 to 04/28/2024
view
Thinkspace Projects Presents Five New Exhibitions in March
03/09/2024 to 03/30/2024
view
GODDESSES, AMAZONS, and MOTHERS | A Celebration of Female Creativity | Group Exhibition
03/08/2024 to 04/12/2024
view
Five Elements: Bill Pangburn's Rivers
03/01/2024 to 03/30/2024
view
Tomas Watson: Transitions
03/06/2024 to 04/13/2024

Pages