John Buck: Iconography From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation
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Sponsored by National City Bank Over the past four decades the Bozeman, Montana artist John Buck has created a large and important body of work comprised of woodblock prints and rubbings, sculpture, and three-dimensional wood panels. Tough-minded and visually complex, Buck’s art is saturated with a deep richness of images, icons, symbols, motifs, and an intensely lyrical and authentic evocation of both the natural and the social worlds. A master carver, all of the artist’s work is grounded first in wood carving, and then expands towards the large and unique woodblock prints, monumental wood sculpture, or the unusual and colorful shadow-like wood panels. Iconography, a large exhibition comprised of over 50 works drawn from throughout the artist’s career, is anchored by a comprehensive overview of the artist’s printmaking career, and also includes major works of wood sculpture, his shadow-like wood panels, and works from his little-known glass jar series. The exhibition also includes an educational element featuring several raw printing blocks and prints in different states, illuminating his printing process. Iconography is the first large-scale museum survey of John Buck’s work since an exhibition of his prints at the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco in 1993. John Buck studied with Roy De Forest, William T. Wiley, Robert Arneson, and Manual Neri at the University of California, Davis and out of these fertile roots developed an authentic, resonant, lyrical, voice, a voice unmistakably his own. —————————————————— The exhibition is curated by Ben Mitchell of the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture and comprised of works drawn primarily from the Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation Collection, in Portland, Oregon, and with major support by Jordan Schnitzer and the Foundation, the exhibition is accompanied by a full-color 144 page catalogue with essays by the important American art critics Eleanor Heartney and John Yau, published in association with and distributed by the University of Washington Press. The Fort Wayne Museum of Art is the first stop on a five city tour of the United States. Artist Lecture and Closing Reception Please join us for a special event as artist John Buck discusses his work from a personal level at this not-to-be-missed closing lecture and reception of John Buck: Iconography. more information Artist Lecture • 6:30 pm RSVP to Brian Wagner at 422.6467, ext. 341 or wagner@fwmoa.org prior to April 20. Silver members and above are invited to join Executive Director Charles A. Shepard III for a Cocktail Party at 5:30 pm in the Auer Library. Please RSVP to Brian Wagner. |
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