July 14 - August 12, 2023
In A Dream | Robert Beras
Nature is Healing | Maria Lux
Vocation as Vacation | Andrew Rieder
Summer Exhibitions will be on view at Buckham Gallery from Friday, July 14 through Saturday, August 12. Flint's Artwalk to be held on Friday, July 14 (6-9 PM) with live music from Flint Wave Synth Club and Friday, August 11 (6-9 PM) with live music from Liz Sevick.
Robert Beras | In A Dream
Photographer Robert Beras combines and mixes images of cars, animals, and urban landscapes through digital manipulation and retouch. Thus creating a new place that is eerily familiar, like a dream. A Western MIchigan University graduate, Beras exhibits his photography throughout Michigan.
Maria Lux | Nature is Healing
Maria Lux is a research-driven artist who centers her work on animals and their relationship to human knowledge. Lux works across disciplines, building projects from specific topics investigating animals in correlation to the larger scientific, ecological, and cultural systems that they are a part of. Her newest installation, Nature is Healing, addresses the earth’s hypothetical recovery from nuclear disaster.
Maria Lux earned her BFA from Iowa State University in 2006 and her MFA from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2012. She has shown work throughout the United States, including solo shows at Antenna Projects in New Orleans, LA, and Upfor Gallery in Portland, OR. She is a recipient of a McMillen Foundation fellowship, and recent residencies include Stove Works in Chattanooga, TN, and Cow House Studios in Ireland. As a cross-disciplinary artist, Lux also regularly presents her work at academic conferences around the world—from Finland and the UK to Kentucky and Texas.
Andrew Rieder | Vocation as Vacation
Andrew Rieder’s Vocation as Vacation explores the concept of work ethic and the various ways in which it is quantified. His mixed-media paintings utilize imagery from activities that can be considered "leisurely labor" (fitness and strongman competitions as well as pick-your-own fruit). These images question whether or not an activity needs to seem undesirable to a participant in order to qualify as "work".
Andrew Rieder received a Bachelors of Art & Design from NC State University’s College of Design, his BFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and earned a MFA in Painting from Michigan State University. Rieder is an Associate Professor of Art & Design at Delta College.
Robert Beras | In A Dream
Photographer Robert Beras combines and mixes images of cars, animals, and urban landscapes through digital manipulation and retouch. Thus creating a new place that is eerily familiar, like a dream. A Western MIchigan University graduate, Beras exhibits his photography throughout Michigan.
Maria Lux | Nature is Healing
Maria Lux is a research-driven artist who centers her work on animals and their relationship to human knowledge. Lux works across disciplines, building projects from specific topics investigating animals in correlation to the larger scientific, ecological, and cultural systems that they are a part of. Her newest installation, Nature is Healing, addresses the earth’s hypothetical recovery from nuclear disaster.
Maria Lux earned her BFA from Iowa State University in 2006 and her MFA from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2012. She has shown work throughout the United States, including solo shows at Antenna Projects in New Orleans, LA, and Upfor Gallery in Portland, OR. She is a recipient of a McMillen Foundation fellowship, and recent residencies include Stove Works in Chattanooga, TN, and Cow House Studios in Ireland. As a cross-disciplinary artist, Lux also regularly presents her work at academic conferences around the world—from Finland and the UK to Kentucky and Texas.
Andrew Rieder | Vocation as Vacation
Andrew Rieder’s Vocation as Vacation explores the concept of work ethic and the various ways in which it is quantified. His mixed-media paintings utilize imagery from activities that can be considered "leisurely labor" (fitness and strongman competitions as well as pick-your-own fruit). These images question whether or not an activity needs to seem undesirable to a participant in order to qualify as "work".
Andrew Rieder received a Bachelors of Art & Design from NC State University’s College of Design, his BFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and earned a MFA in Painting from Michigan State University. Rieder is an Associate Professor of Art & Design at Delta College.
