October 6 - November 4, 2023
Among The Folds | Tai Lipan
Llamáme Por Mi Nombre | Kiara Aileen Machado
Tom Nuzum Selected Works
Events
40th Anniversary Launch Party: Thursday, October 12 from 5 - 7 PM
-Live music from Shane and Cam, courtesy of Great Escape Gaming
Flint's Artwalk: Friday, October 13 from 6 - 9 PM
40th Anniversary Launch Party: Thursday, October 12 from 5 - 7 PM
-Live music from Shane and Cam, courtesy of Great Escape Gaming
Flint's Artwalk: Friday, October 13 from 6 - 9 PM
Tom Nuzum Selected Works
Tom Nuzum, one of the founding members of the Buckham Fine Arts Project, built dynamic compositions and developed a personal iconography of images, forms, and color. His work “was about magic and mystery, tempered with a large subjective but believable dose of reality...The dynamics of (his) compositions are only surpassed by the uniqueness of his color exploration," wrote Ted Ramsey, Professor Emeritus, School of Art and Design, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. "Nuzum painted what he knew and put a personal twist on every aspect of even the simplest of subjects such as toys or his household pets." As an intellectual painter, Nuzum's imagery reflected the literature he read, the travels he experienced, and personal associations with family, friends, animals, and his environmental surroundings. Tom Nuzum lost his battle with cancer and died on February 2, 2011. He touched the lives of many and left behind a tremendous legacy, a much-loved and admired artist.
Tai Lipan | Among the Folds
Among the Folds is an exhibit of layered wood paintings and ink on paper drawings. Raised under the large-skied rural landscapes of Indiana, Tai Lipan revered the land with a distant stewardship. She cared for the surface but was disengaged with the history. Hiking through creek beds, Lipan marveled at the ancient treasures resting on the surface or embedded in the rock. The ground is an ancient ocean floor, the impressions are a memoir of once flourishing colonies, now forgotten. The works in Among the Folds explore these extinct communities, the diversity of species, the enormity of time, the abruptness of demise and the parallels of modern ecosystems.
Kiara Aileen Machado | Llamáme Por Mi Nombre
Identifying as a Central American with a mother from Guatemala, father from El Salvador, and great grandmother from Honduras, Kiara Aileen Machado’s work centers around the importance and complexities of intersecting identities due to migration and forced displacement. The figures in the works of Llamáme Por Mi Nombre take center stage, using thick, visible brushstrokes in congruence with a vivid and saturated color palette, to further amplify their voices and to force the viewers to acknowledge their presence and cement their identities into tangible forms. With her work, Machado strives to express the beauty of Central American culture, and the continuing resilience and will to survive.
Early Fall Exhibitions will be on view at Buckham Gallery through Saturday, November 4, 2023. Flint's ARTWALK will be held on Friday, October 13 from 6 to 9 PM. For more details, please visit www.buckhamgallery.org
Tom Nuzum, one of the founding members of the Buckham Fine Arts Project, built dynamic compositions and developed a personal iconography of images, forms, and color. His work “was about magic and mystery, tempered with a large subjective but believable dose of reality...The dynamics of (his) compositions are only surpassed by the uniqueness of his color exploration," wrote Ted Ramsey, Professor Emeritus, School of Art and Design, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. "Nuzum painted what he knew and put a personal twist on every aspect of even the simplest of subjects such as toys or his household pets." As an intellectual painter, Nuzum's imagery reflected the literature he read, the travels he experienced, and personal associations with family, friends, animals, and his environmental surroundings. Tom Nuzum lost his battle with cancer and died on February 2, 2011. He touched the lives of many and left behind a tremendous legacy, a much-loved and admired artist.
Tai Lipan | Among the Folds
Among the Folds is an exhibit of layered wood paintings and ink on paper drawings. Raised under the large-skied rural landscapes of Indiana, Tai Lipan revered the land with a distant stewardship. She cared for the surface but was disengaged with the history. Hiking through creek beds, Lipan marveled at the ancient treasures resting on the surface or embedded in the rock. The ground is an ancient ocean floor, the impressions are a memoir of once flourishing colonies, now forgotten. The works in Among the Folds explore these extinct communities, the diversity of species, the enormity of time, the abruptness of demise and the parallels of modern ecosystems.
Kiara Aileen Machado | Llamáme Por Mi Nombre
Identifying as a Central American with a mother from Guatemala, father from El Salvador, and great grandmother from Honduras, Kiara Aileen Machado’s work centers around the importance and complexities of intersecting identities due to migration and forced displacement. The figures in the works of Llamáme Por Mi Nombre take center stage, using thick, visible brushstrokes in congruence with a vivid and saturated color palette, to further amplify their voices and to force the viewers to acknowledge their presence and cement their identities into tangible forms. With her work, Machado strives to express the beauty of Central American culture, and the continuing resilience and will to survive.
Early Fall Exhibitions will be on view at Buckham Gallery through Saturday, November 4, 2023. Flint's ARTWALK will be held on Friday, October 13 from 6 to 9 PM. For more details, please visit www.buckhamgallery.org
