Buckham Gallery is pleased to announce the final exhibitions of Season 42, including two feature presentations of large-scale works by Ghislaine & Lando Fremaux-Valdez and Shelby Shadwell, along with the nationally juried exhibition, Vessel.
September 11 - October 3, 2026

Ghislaine & Lando Fremaux-Valdez | Cutaneous Sight
“Bodies are secrets, or they are keepers of secrets, because they operate largely outside the reaches of consciousness and vision. Medicine and religion promise to decipher the body secret, each offering an account of what this body is, how it works, and how to care for it. We examine embodiment through the lenses of medicine, religious mythology, and our love for each other, mis/applying the ideas, instruments, and/or experience of each in the portrayal of our own bodies…”

Shelby Shadwell | VISCERAL
Shelby Shadwell’s work consists of large-scale charcoal and pastel drawings of non-traditional imagery such as gut piles left over from big game hunts, space blankets used in emergency situations to stay warm, and pieces of black anthracite coal. The drawings may elicit feelings of disgust or revulsion and awe or ecstasy simultaneously due to the contrast between the vulgarity or ephemerality of the imagery juxtaposed with its meticulous, hyper-realistic, rendering. Among other things, Shelby’s work allows viewers space to ask questions about low and high status in artistic subject matter and romantic tropes in historical and contemporary western art.


Vessel: National Juried Exhibition
​For all of recorded human history, we have created vessels in which to hold water, food, collections of objects, or human remains. These vessels often exist to serve functional purposes, while also decorative with scenes of life and humanity. Vessels have been made of wood, stone, clay, glass, metal, and also paper, fiberglass, etc… While the original vessels served functional purposes, we now create non-functional vessels to be admired in form and beauty. Buckham Gallery presents an exhibition of three dimensional vessels, either functional or non-functional, in a wide range of size and materials.

Selected Artists: Guy Adamec, Brandin Barón, Matthew Carpenter, Darlys Ewoldt, Brienna Hall, Pamela Hart, Craig Hinshaw, Marti Liddle-Lameti, ED NG, Marcyanna Parzych, Daniel Randall, Mark Rigsby, Jason Schneider, Terri Shinn, Alec Smith, Lisa Walsh, Nathan Ward

Buckham Gallery’s 42nd Season is sponsored in part by the Stella & Frederick Loeb Charitable Trust administered by Huntington Bank.

Buckham Fine Arts Project is supported in part by individual donations and awards from: the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, the Michigan Arts and Culture Council and the National Endowment for the Arts, the Community Foundation of Greater Flint, and the Greater Flint Arts Council Share Art Genesee Grant Program made possible by the Genesee County Arts Education and Cultural Enrichment Millage funds. Your tax dollars are at work!