Department of Art Gallery Highlights Popular Culture in Paintings and Drawings
Georgia Southern University presents "Derrick Buisch: Off Season" from Aug. 18 to Sept. 19 at the Contemporary Gallery of the Center for Art & Theatre on campus. The exhibition will feature an artist lecture on Thursday, Sept. 18, at 5 p.m. in the Visual Arts building, Room 2071, immediately followed by an artist reception in the gallery.
“We are thrilled to show the work of Derrick Buisch,” said Marc Mitchell, exhibit curator. “We live in a society where images and symbols are constantly around us – just look at the apps on our phones. Derrick Buisch explores the ways in which we can manipulate images and symbols to create a new and singular language.”
"Derrick Buisch: Off Season" features imagery culled from pedestrian subjects including maps, album covers, roadside signs, and commercial products. Informed through his practice of maintaining sketchbooks, Buisch creates distinctive images that present an extensive exploration of graphic motifs. Often influenced by aspects of music, such as LPs and zines.
“I believe in the importance of the reflective space provided by painting,” said Buisch. “These paintings are a distilled chaos riddled with small incidences of uneasy hilarity, which creates a rigorous abstraction that is simultaneously evocative and elusive.”
Buisch’s work has been shown at venues such as the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.; Museum of Contemporary Art in Madison, Wisconsin; Muscarelle Museum of Art in Williamsburg, Virginia; The Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore; Mississippi State University; University of California-San Diego and the London Biennale.
The event is free and open to the public.
For more information on this exhibition and other gallery programming provided by the Betty Foy Sanders Department of Art, visit GeorgiaSouthern.edu/cat.
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