Strand Gallery
October 3 - November 18, 2018
Opening Reception Saturday, October 3, 2018
6:00 – 9:00 PM
Artist talk at 6:30 PM
Buster Graybill
Leisurely
Leisurely is a culmination of 3 years of sculptures and lawn chair strap “paintings” from Buster Graybill’s ongoing Recreational Modernism series. This work celebrates the formal nuances and conceptual potential of objects and materials often associated with outdoor leisure and hobbies. Graybill incorporates materials that might be found at a backyard BBQ, on a fishing trip, or in the garage while tinkering on a hotrod. Exploring Modernist tendencies through a rural working-class perspective, Graybill’s works challenge perceived notions of value and the hierarchies imposed on objects of “high” and “low” culture. Like a miner panning for gold, Graybill sifts through his own environment with a playful yet discerning eye, finding beauty, humor, poetry, and value in the sediment of everyday life.
Buster Graybill is an Assistant Professor at University of Texas at San Antonio in the Department of Art and Art History. He utilizes sculpture, installation, video, and photography to traverse cultural boundaries and reconnect with often overlooked objects, materials and places found in the rural landscape. Graybill has exhibited throughout Texas, as well as in Boston, Miami, New York, and Guanajuato, Mexico. He is an alumnus of the Skowhegan Artist Residency and the Artpace International Artist-In-Residence program, as well as a recipient of grants from the San Antonio Artist Foundation and the Idea Fund, a program of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
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