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September 17, 2010
"I Speak As I Please" By David Buckingham At Jonathan Ferrara
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"I Speak As I Please" New Sculpture By David Buckingham at Jonathan Ferrara
Gallery
Los Angeles Artist to Exhibit for Art For Arts' Sake Opening of the New Orleans
Art Season
FOR IMMEDIATE
RELEASE
September 17, 2010 (New Orleans, LA)
Jonathan Ferrara Gallery is pleased to present "I Speak As I
Please", new sculpture by Los Angeles artist David Buckingham in
his first solo exhibition in New Orleans. As a native New Orleanian, Buckingham
will explore the profound effect that growing up in the city can have on both
its citizens and on those whom - for various misfortunes - it has lost.
David Buckingham will bring his unique brand of metal sculpture to New Orleans
for the annual Art For Arts' Sake opening of the New Orleans Arts season
this October. His exhibition will feature his trademark sculptures of word
phrases, movie lines and famous guns created from old, battered colorful metal
reclaimed from race cars, trucks, hay balers, rice threshers, school buses and
the like discovered in the High Mojave
Desert.
Of the new suite of works to be exhibited in New Orleans, Buckingham
says:
"You can't be a Louisiana boy and grow up in New Orleans without being
profoundly affected by it for the rest of your life, and for my first solo show
at Jonathan Ferrara Gallery I will be mining memories of many things that 'ain't
dere no
more'.
When I think of New Orleans, I think of nectar creams at the K+B fountain on
Broadway at St Charles, the late great Buster Holmes restaurant, rushing home
from high school on the streetcar to read Tommy Griffin's column in the States
Item, sportscaster Hap Glaudi, weatherman extraordinaire Nash Roberts, my
Schwegmann's hurricane tracking map, Dixie Beer's infamous bad batch of '75, my
1984 World's Fair pass, concerts at the Warehouse, Professor Longhair live at
Tip's when it opened in '77, the intoxicating fragrance of magnolias in bloom,
greeting the sunrise from atop Audubon Park's Monkey Hill, attending the first
rock concert in the newly opened Louisiana Superdome in '75, being able to drive
through Audubon Park at all hours, several nights in Central Lockup, 'submarine
races' at the Lakefront, ODing on cholesterol at Deanie's in Bucktown, hearing
my grandfather speak Cajun French with his friends (they always switched to
French when they didn't want us kids to know what they were talking about),
Ruthie the Duck Lady, Morgus the Magnificent, the razing of Pontchartrain Beach,
brushing with Dr Tichenor's, Momus and Comus (R.I.P)., Archie Manning, the
barbecued shrimp at Manale's, "Show your tits!", and holes in my Perlis
alligator shirt from the burning flambeaux at Mardi Gras
parades.
I am drawing on all of these things for my show. I left New Orleans many years
ago, but New Orleans has never left me. It is my favorite city on the planet and
to this day is the place I am most comfortable.
I know what it means to miss New Orleans.
Yeah you
wrong!"
-David Buckingham, 2010
David
Buckhingham
With an advertisting background, Buckingham worked at agencies in Boston, New
York, Australia, San Francisco and Los Angeles. In the early 90's he met Ray
"Cowboy" Kelly, who had started a Lower East Side movement called the Rivington
School, a group of anarchist welders and poets and performance artists who had
taken over an abandoned lot on Rivington
Street.
Moving to Los Angeles in the mid 90's, Buckingham became obsessed with making
art. Venturing into the Mojave, he discovered tons of old, battered colorful
metal - ancient cars, trucks, hay balers, rice threshers, school buses - and
began to work exclusively with these materials. Having spent 20 years as a
professional writer, text and words play an integral role in his artwork. Lines
from movies are central to many of his pieces that reflect on the major business
role movies play in L.A. and perverse impact on our cultural identity. Mass
culture that has been pounded into his head for nearly 45 years now acts as a
catalyst in his artwork. Cartoon sound effects, guns of infamous assassins and
text lines are created from the man-made detritus of a desert landscape.
David Buckingham's work is in several notable collections including Steven
Bochco, Josh Groban, Gwen Stephani, Seth Rogen , Perez Hilton, Prada/Milan and
The Cisneros Foundation. His
work
has been exhibited in New York (O.K Harris) and in San Francisco, Los Angeles,
Chicago, Miami and St. Louis. "I Speak As I Please" is his first
solo exhibition in New Orleans.
Los Angeles Art Critic Peter Frank writes in an upcoming catalog of
Buckingham's
work:
"David Buckingham does not make signs. Maybe you could say that he welds
poetry, but that credits him for his phrases more than he wants to be. Rather,
Buckingham records the language of his time and place in a durable but flexible
substance - a substance arguably as durable and flexible as language itself.
What we say - and how we say it - to one another may seem like so much smoke
signaling; but Buckingham thinks that our language, even at its roughest, has a
monumental quality to it, and brings out that quality in a manner at once as
modern as the words and as timeless as the impulse to speech
itself."
To preview the exhibition, "I Speak As I Please" by David Buckingham,
please
click
here.
The exhibition opens with an artist reception on Saturday October 2, 2010 from
6-9pm in
conjunction
with the annual Art For Arts' Sake opening of the New Orleans Arts
season.
For more information and images, please
contact
Jonathan Ferrara Gallery at 504.522.5471
or
info@jonathanferraragallery.com
Pictured:
The artist David
Buckingham
with his
sculpture
Dirty
Harry
Cut and welded reclaimed metal
40"x 75" x 8"
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