Buckham Gallery continues its 40th Anniversary Season: I Get My Hit And Then I Run With It, a solo exhibition from Jessika Edgar, and Located in the Newly Unfamiliar, a group exhibition from Laura Carpenter Truitt and Amy Reckley.
Summer Exhibitions will open Friday, June 14 at 6 PM and run through Saturday, July 13, 2024. Flint's ARTWALK will be held on June 14 and July 12 from 6 to 9 PM. July 12 Artwalk will include live music from Babak Elahi, courtesy of Mott Community College.
Buckham Gallery continues its 40th Anniversary Season with Jessika Edgar’s solo exhibition, I Get My Hit And Then I Run With It, and Laura Carpenter Truitt and Amy Reckley’s duo exhibition, Located in the Newly Unfamiliar. First, we would like to recognize artist Gerardo Castro (1967 - 2024):
Gerardo Castro | Evidence of Things Not Seen
The walls in the front half of the gallery are bare in honor of Gerardo Castro, contemporary Afro-Boricua artist, who passed away last March. Castro first exhibited with Buckham Gallery in 2020’s national juried exhibition, Eros & Thanatos. His work Call Me Papi, oil and mixed media on paper, won the first place prize awarded by juror Ed Fraga. Castro’s second time exhibiting with Buckham Gallery was in 2022’s national juried exhibition, BIPOC is The Theme!, when he was selected to receive a future solo exhibition and transportation stipend. Regrettably, the planned exhibition, Evidence of Things Not Seen, this month had to be canceled.
This exhibition is supported in part by Stella & Frederick Loeb Charitable Trust administered by Huntington. As always, much gratitude to the individuals and organizations who support Buckham Fine Arts Project.
Summer Exhibitions will open Friday, June 14 at 6 PM and run through Saturday, July 13, 2024. Flint's ARTWALK will be held on June 14 and July 12 from 6 to 9 PM. July 12 Artwalk will include live music from Babak Elahi, courtesy of Mott Community College.
Buckham Gallery continues its 40th Anniversary Season with Jessika Edgar’s solo exhibition, I Get My Hit And Then I Run With It, and Laura Carpenter Truitt and Amy Reckley’s duo exhibition, Located in the Newly Unfamiliar. First, we would like to recognize artist Gerardo Castro (1967 - 2024):
Gerardo Castro | Evidence of Things Not Seen
The walls in the front half of the gallery are bare in honor of Gerardo Castro, contemporary Afro-Boricua artist, who passed away last March. Castro first exhibited with Buckham Gallery in 2020’s national juried exhibition, Eros & Thanatos. His work Call Me Papi, oil and mixed media on paper, won the first place prize awarded by juror Ed Fraga. Castro’s second time exhibiting with Buckham Gallery was in 2022’s national juried exhibition, BIPOC is The Theme!, when he was selected to receive a future solo exhibition and transportation stipend. Regrettably, the planned exhibition, Evidence of Things Not Seen, this month had to be canceled.
This exhibition is supported in part by Stella & Frederick Loeb Charitable Trust administered by Huntington. As always, much gratitude to the individuals and organizations who support Buckham Fine Arts Project.
I Get My Hit And Then I Run With It | Jessika Edgar
I Get My Hit And Then I Run With It, investigates the construction of individual identity as prescribed by societal notions of value and binaries. Jessika Edgar pulls reference material from popular culture ephemera and media imagery especially related to gender, beauty, and material desire. Her sculptures and installations aim to re-create a feeling of cognitive dissonance, a psychological space that is simultaneously critical and indulgent.
Jessika Edgar is a ceramic artist based in Metro Detroit. Her research focuses on concepts related to identity and value through an investigation in contemporary craft and sculptural abstraction. Raised in both Western Massachusetts and Southern California, Jessika has an MFA in Ceramics from Cranbrook Academy of Art and an MA in Studio Art from California State University Northridge.
Located in the Newly Unfamiliar | Laura Carpenter Truitt and Amy Reckley
In various media, Located in the Newly Unfamiliar, reflects the artists’ independent returns to the Midwest where they grew up. Making work about where you are is an investigation, and Laura Carpenter Truitt’s return from the western United States to Ohio is a new reflection on the landscape where she spent her first 20 years. Amy Reckley also experienced a return, in her case to Michigan. For both, it’s an adjustment to the weather, the seasons, the concerns, the habits, and the economies of these areas that they thought they knew was the impetus for this body of work. These works describe movements through spaces from different perspectives and media as a way to process our return to place.
Laura Carpenter Truitt is a visiting assistant professor of painting and drawing at Oberlin College. In addition to completing her MFA in painting at Colorado State University Laura studied painting and drawing at Goucher College, the Glasgow School of Art in Scotland, Vermont Studio Center and the Chicago Art Institute.
Amy Reckley put in her time teaching adjunct at several colleges and universities in Colorado and Michigan, and now works as the Exhibitions Preparator at Kendall College of Art and Design in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She has an MFA in Drawing from Colorado State University, a Post- Baccalaureate Certificate in Painting and Serigraphy from SACI College of Art & Design in Italy, and a BA from Kalamazoo College.
Summer Exhibitions will open Friday, June 14 at 6 PM and run through Saturday, July 13, 2024. Flint's ARTWALK will be held on July 12 from 6 to 9 PM with live music courtesy of Mott Community College.
I Get My Hit And Then I Run With It, investigates the construction of individual identity as prescribed by societal notions of value and binaries. Jessika Edgar pulls reference material from popular culture ephemera and media imagery especially related to gender, beauty, and material desire. Her sculptures and installations aim to re-create a feeling of cognitive dissonance, a psychological space that is simultaneously critical and indulgent.
Jessika Edgar is a ceramic artist based in Metro Detroit. Her research focuses on concepts related to identity and value through an investigation in contemporary craft and sculptural abstraction. Raised in both Western Massachusetts and Southern California, Jessika has an MFA in Ceramics from Cranbrook Academy of Art and an MA in Studio Art from California State University Northridge.
Located in the Newly Unfamiliar | Laura Carpenter Truitt and Amy Reckley
In various media, Located in the Newly Unfamiliar, reflects the artists’ independent returns to the Midwest where they grew up. Making work about where you are is an investigation, and Laura Carpenter Truitt’s return from the western United States to Ohio is a new reflection on the landscape where she spent her first 20 years. Amy Reckley also experienced a return, in her case to Michigan. For both, it’s an adjustment to the weather, the seasons, the concerns, the habits, and the economies of these areas that they thought they knew was the impetus for this body of work. These works describe movements through spaces from different perspectives and media as a way to process our return to place.
Laura Carpenter Truitt is a visiting assistant professor of painting and drawing at Oberlin College. In addition to completing her MFA in painting at Colorado State University Laura studied painting and drawing at Goucher College, the Glasgow School of Art in Scotland, Vermont Studio Center and the Chicago Art Institute.
Amy Reckley put in her time teaching adjunct at several colleges and universities in Colorado and Michigan, and now works as the Exhibitions Preparator at Kendall College of Art and Design in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She has an MFA in Drawing from Colorado State University, a Post- Baccalaureate Certificate in Painting and Serigraphy from SACI College of Art & Design in Italy, and a BA from Kalamazoo College.
Summer Exhibitions will open Friday, June 14 at 6 PM and run through Saturday, July 13, 2024. Flint's ARTWALK will be held on July 12 from 6 to 9 PM with live music courtesy of Mott Community College.
