After receiving a master’s degree in public health from Columbia University in 1969, Beverly Buchana
After receiving a master’s degree in public health from Columbia University in 1969, Beverly Buchanan traded her ambition to become a doctor for a workingcareer as an artist, living in New York until 1977. Buchanan explored the cultural and social history of sites and ruins, coupling a poignant sense of the transience of historical memory with an active engagement with Post-Minimalism and Land art.Wall Column, which was included in Ana Mendieta’s Dialectics of Isolation exhibition, was acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Lowery Stokes Sims, who was a curator at the museum in the 1980s, brought the work into the collection. As Sims recalls: I was impressed by the relationship of her conceptual approach to the seductions of the landscape and the engagement of materials that resonated with historical art making by African Americans in the South.Beverly Buchanan (American, 1940–2015). Untitled (Frustula Series), circa 1978. Cast concrete, a: 20 x 10 x 16 in. (50.8 x 25.4 x 40.6 cm b: 12 x 15 ½ x 15 in. (30.5 x 39.4 x 38.1 cm c: 22 ½ x 5 ½ x 14 ¼ in. (57.2 x 14 x 36.2 cm). Private collection. © Estate of Beverly Buchanan, courtesy of Jane Bridges -- source link
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