Multimedia Collection

Beverly Buchanan
(A World of Art series)

VHS
30 minutes
NX504 .W641 1996 tape 5

Beverly Buchanan is an artist whose chief imagery derives from the dwellings of the rural poor in the American South. As a child she often accompanied her great-uncle, a representative for the state agriculture department, on his rounds visiting sharecroppers and tenant farmers. Today she photographs abandoned and still-inhabited shacks, draws them with pastel oilsticks, and constructs models of them from scraps of wood and metal. Through her work, she illuminates the lives of the shack dwellers; she often attaches fictional narratives to individual pieces. As she constructs a pastel oilstick work from beginning to end, she presents a perfect example of drawing as a working process.

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