De Buck Gallery

De Buck Gallery The gallery supports a vibrant contemporary program of narrative, identity-based art, primarily focused on figurative painting and innovative fiber work.

Founded in 2011 by David De Buck, De Buck Gallery focuses on contemporary artists, from emerging to mid career, and is deeply committed to supporting artists’ growth through special projects and exhibitions. De Buck presents artists who are art scene leaders across their disciplines with a strong curatorial following and critical acclaim. The gallery programming engages contemporary talent such as

Devan Shimoyama, Stephen Towns, Hiba Schahbaz, Ronald Jackson, Tahnee Lonsdale, and Juan Garaizabal. Shows such as “Sweet” (2017) by Devan Shimoyama and “STOP PLAYING IN MY FACE!” (2016) by Rashaad Newsome demonstrate the gallery’s cutting- edge and cross-disciplinary approach with dynamic new multimedia programming and performance. In 2019, the gallery showcased Devan Shimoyama’s work in a successful solo show, “Shh…”, and presented an exciting roster of contemporary artists in a spring group show, “Conjuring Wholeness in the Wake of Rupture.” The gallery’s 2019 programming also included “The Night Light Fell from the Sky,” a solo show of Stephen Towns’ quilt work and ‘The GAG,’ a group show curated by Devan Shimoyama. Most recently, the gallery has showcased solo exhibitions of Hiba Schahbaz, Ronald Jackson, Tahnee Lonsdale, and a group show of fiber and quilt work titled “Threaded Memory” (2020). In 2021, De Buck Gallery will launch an Artist-in-Residence program, which will invite artists to live and create at a private studio in Saint-Paul De Vence, France. The program extends artists the opportunity to exhibit work in Europe and is committed to fostering relationships with the local community, continuing Saint-Paul De Vence’s legacy as an international artist hub and home to La Maison James Baldwin.

That Moon found Me”. Gommaar Gilliams, 2024. One of nine bodies of works in Gilliam’s latest exhibition, ‘Retracing Walk...
07/26/2024

That Moon found Me”. Gommaar Gilliams, 2024. 

One of nine bodies of works in Gilliam’s latest exhibition, ‘Retracing Walkways,’ on display at De Buck Gallery in Saint-Paul-de-Vence now until August 4th. 

Retracing Walkways is the artist’s second solo exhibition with De Buck Gallery and draws on his continued interest in the theme of “collective memory” whilst also taking a new emphasis on the inherent order of things. In each painting there are distinct yet abstracted symbols: flora, celestial stars, a figure, all of which are there to take on a symbolic not literal meaning. Lines, full of color and emotion connect these symbols- making the workings of walkways or “mind maps” visible

 

De Buck Gallery would like to congratulate artist Tina Williams Brewer () for winning the Carol R. Brown Creative Achiev...
07/08/2024

De Buck Gallery would like to congratulate artist Tina Williams Brewer () for winning the Carol R. Brown Creative Achievement award for Pittsburgh-based artists.

Williams-Brewer was selected from 225 nominations and 70 artists to receive $50,000. Theater artist Adil Mansoor was also selected as a winner.

Image: Tina Williams Brewer, “Breadth of Truth” , 2020. Courtesy of the Artist.

 

TONIGHT: De Buck Gallery has its grand opening of Retracing Walkways in Saint-Paul de Vence. We will see you there 😎    ...
07/04/2024

TONIGHT: De Buck Gallery has its grand opening of Retracing Walkways in Saint-Paul de Vence. We will see you there 😎

Sneak peak into tomorrow’s grand opening of Gommaar Gilliams, Retracing Walkways. Request an invite or preview the exhib...
07/03/2024

Sneak peak into tomorrow’s grand opening of Gommaar Gilliams, Retracing Walkways. Request an invite or preview the exhibition via the link in our bio!

Gommaar Gilliams, Retracing Walkways opens this Thursday, July 4, in Saint-Paul de Vence.

Embracing the heat with this amazing   by  Image: Tiffany Alfonseca, Huelo a soledad sin ti, 2023                       ...
06/21/2024

Embracing the heat with this amazing by

Image: Tiffany Alfonseca, Huelo a soledad sin ti, 2023

One more day until the opening of ’s solo exhibition, “Fade Cut” at the Serlachius Museum!  In Fade Cut, the Devan has t...
03/22/2024

One more day until the opening of ’s solo exhibition, “Fade Cut” at the Serlachius Museum!

In Fade Cut, the Devan has transformed a barbershop into a
rich and colorful fantasy.

Here, Shimoyama’s paintings come to life, engaging individuals in a dialogue about how to evolve from stereotypes of performed hypermasculinity in barbershops and how to cultivate a safe, welcome environment for all.

The works of the barbershop series are portraits of boys and men that
challenge traditional gender roles.
Shimoyama transforms this hyper-masculine social space into q***r fantasy where feminine glamour and fashion take over, and tender depictions of boys don floral capes and glitter-encrusted hair.


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As Devan Shimoyama’s exhibition at the Serlachius Museum opens this week, we are reminiscing on Devan’s “Barbershop Proj...
03/19/2024

As Devan Shimoyama’s exhibition at the Serlachius Museum opens this week, we are reminiscing on Devan’s “Barbershop Project” at CulturalDC.

The Barbershop Project was a collaboration between artist Devan Shimoyama, Barber of Hell’s Bottom owner Kelly Gorsuch and designer/furniture maker Caleb Woodard, where they transformed CulturalDC’s Mobile Art Gallery into an immersive art installation and fully functioning barbershop.

Here, Shimoyama’s paintings come to life, engaging individuals in a dialogue about how to evolve from stereotypes of performed hypermasculinity in barbershops and how to cultivate a safe, welcome environment for all.

Contact De Buck Gallery for more information.

ImageS:
[1] Installation of The Barbershop Project, courtesy of CulturalDC.
[2] Devan Shimoyama, Detail, Style Guide #2, 2019.


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Throwback to “Sweet”, Devan Shimoyama’s first solo exhibition with De Buck Gallery, which presented seven paintings and ...
03/12/2024

Throwback to “Sweet”, Devan Shimoyama’s first solo exhibition with De Buck Gallery, which presented seven paintings and an installation of two oversized mixed media sculptural hoodies.

Sweet is a group of primarily portrait paintings of black boys and men receiving haircuts in a barbershop. Sweet alludes to the derogatory term for gay or effeminate male. As the artist himself explains from his highly personal experience, “In the black barber shop, men come together to decompress and be candid with one another in a safe space. This space isn’t quite the same for Q***r and Trans People of Color. Gay black men feel the need to perform masculinity and limit their interactions with other black men in this setting.

After discussing with other men who share my identity as a gay black man, I realized many of us find ways to mask our q***rness in this setting regardless to how out and proud we are in our personal lives. We mute ourselves, close our eyes, and in these paintings, these boys and men are reimagined in a much more celebratory, femme, colorfully q***r setting.



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This past weekend, restoration experts at the German Hygiene Museum in Dresden began carefully uncovering a mural painte...
03/11/2024

This past weekend, restoration experts at the German Hygiene Museum in Dresden began carefully uncovering a mural painted by Gerhard Richter in 1956.

That year, the young artist painted the 645 square-foot mural in the stair foyer of the Museum. The mural was painted over 23 years later, in 1979. 🖼️

Richter was only 24 years old when he created the Lebensfreude (Joy of Life) mural for his thesis at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts. The work shows groups of cheerful and festive figures engaged in everyday and leisure activities, such as dancing, going to a beach, or sitting in a park.

Sections of the mural will be uncovered and made visible to the public for the first time in decades. They will be shown at the museum this year as part of a special exhibition there.
Museum visitors will be able to see restorer Albrecht Körber remove the white paint covering Richter’s mural starting March 9.

PHOTO: ANDREAS ROST; ©THE ARTIST, COURTESY GERHARD RICHTER ARCHIVE DRESDEN

Did you know that Robert Longo is featured in American Psycho? Between 1979 and 1982, Robert Longo was engaged with a se...
03/06/2024

Did you know that Robert Longo is featured in American Psycho?

Between 1979 and 1982, Robert Longo was engaged with a series of drawings entitled Men in the Cities. This monumental drawing is a precursor to the entire series using two figures side by side yet confined to their own worlds. This urban theme continued throughout the series.

The figures, themselves, are taken from photographs of models as items were being thrown at them, resulting in agitated and contorted forms- quite the fit for the film!

Robert Longo, Untitled, 1978
Graphite on board


This week’s inspiration: former Sotheby’s executive Gabriela Palmieri’s recent Brooklyn Brownstone feature in Galerie Ma...
03/05/2024

This week’s inspiration: former Sotheby’s executive Gabriela Palmieri’s recent Brooklyn Brownstone feature in Galerie Magazine 😍

1] Yves Klein, Table Bleue, 1961-63
glass, plexiglas and dry blue IKB pigment
[2] Courtesy of Galerie Magazine, Photo: Colin Miller

On Now: An inaugural art exhibition, “Culture of Creativity,” opens today, March 4 ,at the iconic Tiffany’s Fifth Avenue...
03/04/2024

On Now: An inaugural art exhibition, “Culture of Creativity,” opens today, March 4 ,at the iconic Tiffany’s Fifth Avenue store. The work in the bi-level exhibition is sourced from architect Peter Marino’s private collection, which is typically housed at the Peter Marino Art Foundation in Southampton.

The exhibition showcases Marino’s collection of Tiffany & Co. sterling silver pieces from the 1880s along with works byy 26 different artists including Jean-Michel Basquiat, McArthur Binion, Sarah Charlesworth, Francesco Clemente, Johan Creten, Andre Dubreuil, Roe Ethridge, Urs Fischer, Hans Hartung, Molly Hatch, Gregor Hildebrandt, Damien Hirst, Jenny Holzer, Rashid Johnson, Y.Z Kami, Les Lalanne, Peter Marino, Vik Muniz, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Antoine Poncet, Richard Prince, Julian Schnabel, Sarah Sze, Louis Comfort Tiffany, Not Vital and Stanley Whitney.

The exhibition is slated to run through May 20, 2024. Image courtesy of Tiffany & Co.

Inspiration from Sir Elton John’s auction at Christie’s, “Goodbye Peachtree Road”, which will close February 28, 2024 in...
02/28/2024

Inspiration from Sir Elton John’s auction at Christie’s, “Goodbye Peachtree Road”, which will close February 28, 2024 in New York.

Noteable highlights of the opening night was the sale of a Banksy triptych for $1.9 million, featuring a masked figure hurling a bouquet of flowers resembling a Molotov cocktail, a Keith Haring painting depicting a television for $530k, and a photo by Robert Maplethorpe for $89k.

Pictured:

[1] Bansky, Love is in the Air, 2005
[2] Keith Haring, Icon #2 SmilingFace, 1990
[3] Robert Mapplethorpe, Orchid (Map-1802), 1987
[4] Cindy Sherman, Artist Trial Proof, Untitled Film Still, #14, 1978

On Wednesday, February 28 at 7pm, Zak Ové will join AGO Curator, Arts of Global Africa and the Diaspora, Julie Crooks in...
02/26/2024

On Wednesday, February 28 at 7pm, Zak Ové will join AGO Curator, Arts of Global Africa and the Diaspora, Julie Crooks in conversation about his work and how it connects with Carnival, Trinidad, and the African Diaspora. Moko Jumbie, the artist’s 18-ft sculpture, was commissioned for the AGO in 2021.

Image: Installation view of Zak Ove’s commission Moko Jumbie at the Art Gallery of Ontario. Photo: Sean Weaver © Art Gallery of Ontario

Niki de Saint Phalle, Lady with Handbag, 2000.Niki de Saint Phalle was a French-American sculptor, painter, filmmaker, a...
02/23/2024

Niki de Saint Phalle, Lady with Handbag, 2000.

Niki de Saint Phalle was a French-American sculptor, painter, filmmaker, and author of colorful hand-illustrated books. Widely noted as one of the few female monumental sculptors, Saint Phalle was also known for her social commitment and work in addressing important religious conflict, political, pandemic health, race, gender, reproductive rights, food security, climate change, and cultural issues of the time.

In honor of pop culture artist Jeff Koons sending 125 sculptures to the moon last week:Jeff Koons, Balloon Venus, 2013.F...
02/19/2024

In honor of pop culture artist Jeff Koons sending 125 sculptures to the moon last week:

Jeff Koons, Balloon Venus, 2013.

From the press:

In a futuristic collaboration, the artist Jeff Koons has sent 125 sculptures to the moon with the help of billionaire Elon Musk’s SpaceX company. On the morning of Thursday, February 15, lunar lander Nova-C (Odysseus) was packed up on a rocket and sent off with Jeff Koons: Moon Phases from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The series of miniature moon sculptures, which was first announced in March 2022, is accompanied by Koons’ first line of NFTs, making the distant objects still available for earthly purchase. “I wanted to create a historically meaningful NFT project rooted in humanistic and philosophical thought,” Koons told the press in 2022.

A huge congratulations to Emilie Stark-Menneg on her first solo exhibition, “Thread of Her Scent”, at the Farnsworth Art...
02/16/2024

A huge congratulations to Emilie Stark-Menneg on her first solo exhibition, “Thread of Her Scent”, at the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland, Maine.

Stark-Menneg’s whimsical designs will come to life tomorrow in the form of the unicorn. A mystical being within itself, the artist combines her signature style with inspiration from historic works housed at the MET Cloisters and Musée de Cluny.

Her show will be the first in a series entitled Momentum, an initiative dedicated to the next generation of artists with long-standing connections to Maine.

The exhibition will open art the Farnsworth Art Museum on February 17. An opening event will be this evening, February 16, 2024.

For more information, visit the link in our bio .

Image courtesy of the Farnsworth Museum of Art.

Did you know that artist @ is partnering with Whitby Lobster Hatchery to rear and release 7777 juvenile lobsters back in...
02/13/2024

Did you know that artist @ is partnering with Whitby Lobster Hatchery to rear and release 7777 juvenile lobsters back into the sea? 🦞

Image: Philip Colbert, Battle Scene XIV (from The Lobstar Planet)

Belgian artist  in his studio. Image courtesy of the artist.
02/09/2024

Belgian artist in his studio.

Image courtesy of the artist.

Amazing collection of works by Spanish Conceptual artist, Juan Garaizabal (Madrid, 1971). Garaizabal has gained world re...
02/07/2024

Amazing collection of works by Spanish Conceptual artist, Juan Garaizabal (Madrid, 1971).

Garaizabal has gained world recognition for his monumental public sculpture that are reminiscent of fragmented architecture.

Images:

[1] Fragment conditionnel passé, 2023.
[2] Fragment d’hier, 2021.
[3] Duex vases perdus du Jardin des Tuileries, 2021.

01/25/2024
We are happy to hear the news that Hans Kotter is the winner of the German Light Art Prize 2024! According to the judges...
12/01/2023

We are happy to hear the news that Hans Kotter is the winner of the German Light Art Prize 2024!

According to the judges: “Hans Kotter makes the fascination, the potential, the atmospheric and multi-layered nature of light tangible in his works. He uses light - in combination with reflective and light-conducting materials - as a powerful energy that appeals to perception and imagination and opens access to other realities in the indefinite 'non-space'."

The award ceremony will take place in January 2024 at the Celle Art Museum.

Photo by Ulrich Helweg. Image courtesy of Kunstforum International.

  ‘s current show, Buscando la Sirena (Searching for the Siren), at the Mint Museum Randolph in Raleigh, South Carolina....
10/23/2023

‘s current show, Buscando la Sirena (Searching for the Siren), at the Mint Museum Randolph in Raleigh, South Carolina.
This exhibition explores the artist’s Honduran heritage through mixed-media paintings and collages. Milad addresses the complexities of cultural identity in her work, which features pieces created specifically for the Mint Museum as well as objects from the Mint’s permanent collection.
Buscando la Sirena is on view from August 12, 2023 to January 8, 2024 at the Mint Museum Uptown in Charlotte, North Carolina.
An Artist’s Talk will be held on October 29 from 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM.

Incredible abstract sculpture by artist .sculptor Characterizing herself as a Constructivist-turned Minimalist,  Jane Ma...
10/19/2023

Incredible abstract sculpture by artist .sculptor

Characterizing herself as a Constructivist-turned Minimalist,  Jane Manus produces abstract sculptures that punctuate the spaces into which they are set with their brightly colored surfaces and bold forms. Her three-dimensional constructions ranging from furniture to wall-mounted pieces to freestanding, monumental works—spring from rough sketches. While she has experimented with wood and steel, she turned exclusively to aluminum early in her career. Manus cites early Constructivist sculpture, Minimalism, Modern architecture, and bridges among her influences, as well as fellow sculptors Marc di Suvero and Anthony Caro. In her works, she explores symmetry, balance, and form through carefully positioned geometric shapes, often squares and rectangles, and linear forms. At once industrial and organic, the hard angles and highly finished surfaces of her pieces are softened by references to the human body and nature.

In honor of her recent solo exhibition, "Jane Manus, Undaunted", which was curated by Deputy Director, Annelies Mondi and Museum Director, William U. Eiland at the Georgia Museum of Art, we are sharing some of her astounding works. These sculptural works were displayed in the museum's beautiful Jane and Harry Willson Sculpture Garden.

Image:
Jane Manus
Not Yet , 2021
Painted welded aluminium
88 x 46 x 47 inches
223.52 x 116.84 x 119.38

Did you know that Baltimore-based artist Stephen Towns has, not one, but TWO current exhibitions at the National Museum ...
10/13/2023

Did you know that Baltimore-based artist Stephen Towns has, not one, but TWO current exhibitions at the National Museum of African American History and Culture?

Afrofuturism: A History of Black Futures is a year-long exhibition that investigates Afrofuturist expression through art, music, activism and more, this exhibition explores and reveals Afrofuturism’s historic and poignant engagement with African American history and popular culture.

[Afrofuturism: A History of Black Futures
March 24, 2023 – March 24, 2024
National Museum of African American History and Culture | 1400 Constitution Ave., NW. Washington, DC 4th Floor, Visual Art and the American Experience ]

Reckoning: Protest. Defiance. Resilience., is an ongoing exhibition located in the museum’s Visual Art and the American Experience space, the exhibition explores the Black Lives Matter movement, violence against African Americans, and how art depicts Black resistance, resilience, and protest. The exhibition, in part, is taken from the artist’s An Offering series, which was recently acquired by the museum.

[Reckoning: Protest. Defiance. Resilience.
September 10, 2021 – Ongoing
National Museum of African American History and Culture | 1400 Constitution Ave., NW. Washington, DC 4th Floor, Visual Art and the American Experience ]

Image: An Offering and Gift of Lineage installation at York College. Image courtesy of the artist.

De Buck Gallery is thrilled to share Zak Ové’s 9 metre-tall work, The Mothership Connection, at Frieze Sculpture London ...
10/11/2023

De Buck Gallery is thrilled to share Zak Ové’s 9 metre-tall work, The Mothership Connection, at Frieze Sculpture London with .

For this work, created his version of a Totem, thereby referencing the sacred object to serve as a modern-day cultural beacon. Ové was attracted to the tribal sensibility of storytelling and myth-making that is woven into the history of the Totem of the Pacific Northwest.

Frieze Sculpture is held The Regent's Park, London, from 20 September–29 October, 2023. Frieze Sculpture coincides with Frieze London and Frieze Masters, which take place concurrently from 11–15 October, 2023.

Image: courtesy of the artist.

Introducing new works by Jackie Milad:Jackie Milad, What Happens on Earth Stays on Earth, 2023Mixed-media on paper colla...
09/21/2023

Introducing new works by Jackie Milad:



Jackie Milad, What Happens on Earth Stays on Earth, 2023
Mixed-media on paper collage (framed)
30 x 22 inches
76.2 x 55.88 cm

Jackie Milad, Portate Bien, 2022
Mixed-media on paper collage (framed)
30 x 22 inches
76.2 x 55.88 cm

Celebrating the work of  today!Alfonseca uses family and friends as inspiration behind her vivid portraits. Using photog...
09/18/2023

Celebrating the work of today!

Alfonseca uses family and friends as inspiration behind her vivid portraits. Using photographs of her subjects, she situates each within bold and picturesque settings using acrylics, pencils, and bright and shiny materials such as glitter. Message for inquiries.

Tiffany Alfonseca, Dañamos la amistad, 2023
Acrylic paint, colored pencils, and glitter on stretched canvas
40 x 30 inches
101.6 x 76.2 cm

Throughout his oeuvre, Hans Kotter consistently manipulates light and color to invariably benefit and transform the envi...
09/14/2023

Throughout his oeuvre, Hans Kotter consistently manipulates light and color to invariably benefit and transform the environments that the works inhabit. His work is an exquisite commentary on the way that light interacts with the environment. It references the minimalist neon sculpture of the 1960s and 1970s by artists such as Dan Flavin, and can be seen as part of the canon of exciting “light” work by contemporary artists such as Olafur Eliasson and James Turrell. Kotter’s creations oscillate between technical perfection, naturalness, artificiality and painterly appearance, creating works of art that cannot be comfortably categorized.His light-based sculptures reflect the mutability of light due to the steady change of colors as one flows into the next, as well as a strong interest on the part of Kotter in engaging his audience.

Hans Kotter, Interference, 2022
Polished stainless steel, slide, plexiglass, LED’s colour change, remote
100 cm (diameter)

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De Buck Gallery has played a significant role in both representation and support of some of the most innovative artists of our time. Founded in 2010 by international art dealer, David De Buck, the gallery focuses on both contemporary and modern art, and is deeply committed to compelling and innovative artists’ projects and exhibitions. Located in the heart of Chelsea, and with an additional intimate viewing space in Antwerp, Belgium, De Buck presents artists who are global art scene leaders across international disciplines, movements, and eras. The gallery programming engages contemporary talent such as Rashaad Newsome, Devan Shimoyama, Tahnee Lonsdale, and Robert Lazzarini. Additionally, the modern program includes such artists as the Estate of the late Bernard Aubertin, a member of the Zero movement and best known for his red monochromatic paintings who influenced a generation with his international collaborations, concepts and ideas. David De Buck boldly focuses on the practices of minimalist mid-century masters such as Turi Simeti, Alberto Biasi and other post-war pioneers like Shozo Shimamoto, firmly rooted in tradition and historic significance. De Buck continues to dedicate the gallery’s ever expanding programming to the relevant artistic journeys of its roster of artists with fresh international exhibition programming, artistic and curatorial panels and discussions, and the creation of publication exhibition catalogues, which will create a historical overview for years to come.

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