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Thursday, April 6th from 6-8PM for Derek's opening reception at

ANITA SHAPOLSKY GALLERY
152 E 65th Street, New York City
212.452-1094

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DEREK BUCKNER
Artist Statement

Born in 1970, Derek Buckner lives in Brooklyn, NY, with his wife, novelist Joanna Hershon, their twin sons and daughter. The artist graduated from LaGuardia High School of Music and Art, as well as Vassar College, The Art Students League of New York and received a B.F.A. from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Throughout his career as a painter, Derek Buckner has explored many different themes in his work but has always found himself returning to the urban landscape. Born and raised in Brooklyn, the artist has drawn and painted the Gowanus Canal and its surrounding areas for the past twenty-five years, and as the area has developed and changed, so has his work.
 
This new series—created during the pandemic—continues to focus on the industrial areas of the Gowanus, but as the global climate crisis intensifies, his paintings are also informed by more overt anxiety: What does it mean to bear witness to a rapidly changing landscape? Buckner’s personal and artistic investment in this shifting industrial neighborhood explores the relationship between destruction and growth, strength and impermanence. 
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Click Here for Derek Buckner's interview with Brooklyn Daily Eagle

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American Art Collector / June 2022
American Art Collector / May 2019
American Art Collector / January 2018
American Art Collector / October 2016
Houss / March 2015
Epoch Times / July 2014
American Art Collector / April 2014
Nature Morte - Thames and Hudson / October 2013
Painted Landscape Book 2013
Herald Mail / November 11, 2012
The Wall Street Journal / April 15, 2012
 American Art Collector / May 2012
Flavorpill / May 20, 2010
American Art Collector / September 2008
New York Magazine / September 18, 2008
The New York Sun / August 29 - 31, 2008
Studio Visit / Volume Five
American Art Collector / July 2008
Art & Antiques New York Focus / June 2005
New York Post / March 26, 2005
The New Yorker / March 21, 2005




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