2022 Exhibitions
January 2022 started with three concurrent solo exhibitions featuring Emily Legleitner, Diane Zeeuw and Rebecca Zeiss. A primary function of art is that of a lens through which interiors are made discernible to viewers. The emotional intricacies of the human experience can be laid bare through visual representation, often finding a higher state of relatability, of sympathetic resonance between artist and audience. The three artists of this exhibit, Emily Legleitner, Diane Zeeuw, and Rebecca Zeiss, all offer expansive views of concepts and reflections of a far less direct nature, each plunging deep into their respective focuses.
Small Talk, a small group show with Jillian Dickson, Michael Reedy, and Brian Spolans, offers investigations of other people as externalizations of experience and internal fears. These neuroses are presented with tenderness, reverence and the distance experienced with other people. Small Talk was voted the 2021-22 Season Grand Prize.
Late Winter Exhibitions included three concurrent exhibitions featuring: Morgan Craig sees architectural structures as both repositories and vehicles for memory, influencing culture and identity, by providing a tangible framework through which facets of society can be expressed. Robert Huebel was inspired by the love and fascination he has of the American Southwest. Textures of the Southwest explores the special charm of the Southwest: rich in culture, traditions, religions, landscapes, textures and spiritual energy. Chris Waters brings forth portraits of unheralded horses; not ribbon or race winners, not the best examples of their breeds, but they are exalted by the love and care of their owners. Loosely influenced by the works of Kehinde Wiley, All the Pretty Little Horses is a celebration of Waters’ love of horses.
BIPOC Is The Theme! was a nationally juried exhibition created in collaboration with Tyanna J. Buie. True inclusion starts with acknowledgment. BIPOC Is the Theme! addresses inclusivity through the many artists and art works selected for this exhibition. Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) artists have traditionally been underrepresented in U.S. galleries and museums. How do we make this moment in time more than a moment? Singular Black History Month exhibitions do not make up for the decades of systemic racism and omission from our arts institutes. Buckham Gallery acknowledges the need to build stronger relationships with BIPOC artists and our community. “BIPOC is The Theme,” with juror Tyanna J. Buie, is a launch pad to build new collaborations with BIPOC artists. In addition to the traditional cash prizes, Buckham Gallery selected 3 artists to be featured in the 2023 - 2024 season.
In May the gallery presented two concurrent solo exhibitions:
Margaret Davis’s Barriers & Preservers With the numerous social concerns facing today’s teens, Margaret Davis, uses their artwork to showcase adolescence from a variety of environments and cultures. Her multimedia paintings create imagery that portray teens among symbolic barriers and protectors like life preservers, emergency blankets, sand bags, and road barriers.
Benjamin Muñoz’s Endless Endeavors Using identity and cultural assimilation as central themes, Benjamin Muñoz, raises thoughts and questions about the unique experience of immigrants and their families who migrate to the US. Muñoz tells these stories using imagery and composition that follow a chronological or linear timeline. The objects within these pieces help set the foundation for the story he is going to tell. These large scale woodcut prints open up a dialogue that brings comfort and insight for the viewers.
Margaret Davis’s Barriers & Preservers With the numerous social concerns facing today’s teens, Margaret Davis, uses their artwork to showcase adolescence from a variety of environments and cultures. Her multimedia paintings create imagery that portray teens among symbolic barriers and protectors like life preservers, emergency blankets, sand bags, and road barriers.
Benjamin Muñoz’s Endless Endeavors Using identity and cultural assimilation as central themes, Benjamin Muñoz, raises thoughts and questions about the unique experience of immigrants and their families who migrate to the US. Muñoz tells these stories using imagery and composition that follow a chronological or linear timeline. The objects within these pieces help set the foundation for the story he is going to tell. These large scale woodcut prints open up a dialogue that brings comfort and insight for the viewers.
Summer Exhibitions at Buckham Gallery included three concurrent exhibitions:
Monsterbet: An Aberrant Abecedarius | Heidi Brueckner Through the personification of the precarious, dark, and grotesque aspects of human beings, Heidi Brueckner creates mixed media paintings in a format that reflects children’s alphabet books. Each letter of the alphabet is coupled with an imaginary monster with a particular quirk that offers insight into their personal story. Within these works, Brueckner uses collage to explore bright color and pattern, tilted and flattened space, and distorted form to achieve psychological expression while still being humorous and fun.
Black & White | Craig Hinshaw From black clay to porcelain, Black & White returns to Craig Hinshaw’s 1971 roots at Ball State University. Within these works, Hinshaw shows animated gestural figures with fully functional works, created on the wheel. His works take on a life of their own.
Midwest Moonfog Part 2 | Michael Weigman Inspired by suburban upbringing, underground subcultures, and industrial era history, Michael Weigman creates mixed media illustrations while employing printmaking processes to honor its legacy as a communicative medium for the working class.
Monsterbet: An Aberrant Abecedarius | Heidi Brueckner Through the personification of the precarious, dark, and grotesque aspects of human beings, Heidi Brueckner creates mixed media paintings in a format that reflects children’s alphabet books. Each letter of the alphabet is coupled with an imaginary monster with a particular quirk that offers insight into their personal story. Within these works, Brueckner uses collage to explore bright color and pattern, tilted and flattened space, and distorted form to achieve psychological expression while still being humorous and fun.
Black & White | Craig Hinshaw From black clay to porcelain, Black & White returns to Craig Hinshaw’s 1971 roots at Ball State University. Within these works, Hinshaw shows animated gestural figures with fully functional works, created on the wheel. His works take on a life of their own.
Midwest Moonfog Part 2 | Michael Weigman Inspired by suburban upbringing, underground subcultures, and industrial era history, Michael Weigman creates mixed media illustrations while employing printmaking processes to honor its legacy as a communicative medium for the working class.
Late Summer’s Caution: May Contain Nudity featured recent works of Donovan Entrekin, including paintings, encaustics, and charcoal drawings. Entrekin’s work is accompanied by regional artists responding to the nude figure in various media. As well as a small group show of participating artists: Nic Custer, Alla Dubrovich, Amanda Edwards, Pauly Everett, Craig Hinshaw, Robert Huebel, Isaiah Lattimore, Michele Leclaire, Emily Legleitner, Karen Milito, Janice McCoy, Michael Melet, Matthew Osmon, Brian Spolans, Paul Rozycki, Chris Waters, Ed Watkins and #0591.
Two concurrent exhibitions in the Fall:
101 Artists featured selections from the Fred Danziger Collection of Contemporary Art. Danziger inspires others to collect art, to support artists and put art out into the world through showing his private collection across the country. His collection expands beyond 101 Artists, many of which are his former students from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.
Master Potter Guy Adamec brought 50 years of vessel oriented pottery experience to his newest exhibition, Ojichaagwan Vessels. Ojibwa for “Spirit Within,” these vessels represent containers for one’s spirit or vessels to hold an offering to a universal omniscience.
101 Artists featured selections from the Fred Danziger Collection of Contemporary Art. Danziger inspires others to collect art, to support artists and put art out into the world through showing his private collection across the country. His collection expands beyond 101 Artists, many of which are his former students from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.
Master Potter Guy Adamec brought 50 years of vessel oriented pottery experience to his newest exhibition, Ojichaagwan Vessels. Ojibwa for “Spirit Within,” these vessels represent containers for one’s spirit or vessels to hold an offering to a universal omniscience.
November’s annual group show is a tradition for the Buckham Fine Arts Project. This year features Strife, a war themed collection of work by local Flint artists and Collaborators of the Buckham Fine Arts Project. On Screen: A Showcase exhibition and event represented the culmination of Buckham Fine Arts Project On Screen project from 2020 to 2022
The final 2022 exhibition includes three solo exhibitions:
Emmett Merrill’s work uses the lithographic process to create narrative prints which combine Americana imagery with that of myth and legend in his exhibition Empty Road, Great Tornado. Kate Snow’s paintings in Nice Things for Nice People are exceptionally playful. Recent Work by Michael Melet includes collages and charcoal drawings.
Emmett Merrill’s work uses the lithographic process to create narrative prints which combine Americana imagery with that of myth and legend in his exhibition Empty Road, Great Tornado. Kate Snow’s paintings in Nice Things for Nice People are exceptionally playful. Recent Work by Michael Melet includes collages and charcoal drawings.
