Phillip Buehler

"Santa's Stage" Wayne Hills Mall, New Jersey (Modern Ruins) color photograph

2019

The graphic red orange and white pattern of the tent canopy, composed with the metal trestle arches creates a visual symmetry in this color photograph. The soft geometry of the central salt pile mimic the arch and undulating forms in orange ceiling pattern of the shed. 24"x48" will photograph, signed and editioned on reverse. (edition of 5). Unframed, please inquire about framing options. Buehler has visited NATO airbases, Cape Canaveral, the Airplane Graveyard, missile bunkers and silos (even within New York City’s borders) among many other sites that are historic, and yet hidden, forbidden, and forgotten. Photographs from this series will be featured in a solo exhibition this September at the Front Room Gallery. For anyone growing up during the Cold War the sense of dread of the world’s annihilation was all to concrete. It was evidenced in films like “Dr. Strangelove” and “The Day After.” Everyone knew the U.S. had enough nuclear weapons to destroy the world 5 times over, and assumed something similar about the Russians. For those not old enough to remember this built in fear, don’t worry (worry) it is reawakening. We don’t need another Cuban Missile Crisis to push us to the brink, the renewed tension with the Russians, and now North Korea’s recent entry in the nuclear weapons club is more than enough to unnerve anyone who is watching these conflicts unfold. Phillip Buehler is watching closely. Through this comprehensive series Buehler’s photos show many aspects of this non-war war. In Buehler’s aerial photographs from a military airplane storage yard in Arizona the repetition of the same model of bomber aircraft are so abstractly pattern-based that the overall effect beginnings to feel like a Middle Eastern...

24"x 30" photograph, edition of 5, signed on reverse. This photograph is taken at Greystone Park Hospital, in an abandoned washroom, with a row of sinks lined up against a distres...

24"x 30" photograph, edition of 5, signed on reverse This photograph taken at Greystone Park Hospital shows an old single bed that has been abandoned. The bed has been decayed to the point of simply being a decayed bed frame and piled wooden bed boards...

24"x30" edition of 5 photograph available unframed Phillip Buehler has been photographing abandoned places around the world since he rowed to the (then abandoned) Ellis Island in 1974. Many, like Greystone Park Hospital, have since been demolished; some, like Ellis Island and the High Line, have been restored, and some, like the S.S. United States and the New York State Pavilion, are now in jeopardy. Photographs from the (now demolished) Greystone Park Hospital are featured in this exhibition and in the book “Wardy Forty” which he wrote in 2013 about the last days of Woody Guthrie...

24"x30" photograph, limited edition of 5, signed on reverse by the artist, Phillip Buehler. Barricaded with a wall of gnarled metal, the abandoned mall's entrance is blocked by a wall of debris. Phillip Buehler's photograph captures the unsettling scene of the closed mall, seemingly taken from a post-apocolyptic, science-fiction scene. This photograph is a featured in a solo exhibition of Phillip Buehler's photographs, entitled: “Mallrat to Snapchat: The End of the Third Place.” Front Room Gallery is proud to present “Mallrat to Snapchat: The End of the Third Place,” on view November 29th - January 12th. January recent work by photographer Phillip Buehler documenting the death of the Wayne Hills Mall in Wayne, New Jersey. This is Buehler’s second solo show at Front Room Gallery. Buehler’s exhibition is part photography, part installation, part cultural critique, mixed in with nostalgia and genuine affection for this very American economical and sociological experiment— The Mall. Buehler takes a very intimate look at the beginning, and possibly ending, of mall culture in the United States featuring not only photographs, but also artifacts from the mall and its opening year, 1973. Under a photograph of a desolate Sam Goody will be a bin filled with almost 100 albums from that year, that visitors can flip through and play in the gallery on a vintage record player...

24"x30" contemporary color photograph, limited edition of 5, signed on reverse by the artist, Phillip Buehler. This photograph depicts the time ravaged corridor of the abandoned Wayne Hills Mall, in Wayne, New Jersey. A waterlogged hallway leads from the crumbling atrium to the empty storefront shell of Art World, with its sign still intact on the upper wall of the shop. Phillip Buehler captures the last stages of the life of the once bustling mall, with the empty corridors and dilapidated storefronts and kiosks. This photograph is a featured in a solo exhibition of Phillip Buehler's photographs, entitled: “Mallrat to Snapchat: The End of the Third Place.” Front Room Gallery is proud to present “Mallrat to Snapchat: The End of the Third Place,” on view November 29th - January 12th. January recent work by photographer Phillip Buehler documenting the death of the Wayne Hills Mall in Wayne, New Jersey. This is Buehler’s second solo show at Front Room Gallery. Buehler’s exhibition is part photography, part installation, part cultural critique, mixed in with nostalgia and genuine affection for this very American economical and sociological experiment— The Mall. Buehler takes a very intimate look at the beginning, and possibly ending, of mall culture in the United States featuring not only photographs, but also artifacts from the mall and its opening year, 1973. Under a photograph of a desolate Sam Goody will be a bin filled with almost 100 albums from that year, that visitors can flip through and play in the gallery on a vintage record player. Buehler’s photos of iconic hangouts and lowbrow teenage meeting places ring out from the 1970’s, 80’s, and 90’s but are torn away from their movie soundtracks and sent into an apocalyptic icy future. Featuring Sam Goody, Waldenbooks, Toys R Us...

Please note: Artwork will be on display through February 25, 2024 and will be shipped to collectors within two weeks following the closing of the exhibition. This wall-hanging artwork titled "A Thing of Beauty #5 (Inachus)" is an original artwork by Anna Tas...

Please note: Artwork will be on display through February 25, 2024 and will be shipped to collectors within two weeks following the closing of the exhibition. This wall-hanging artwork titled "A Thing Of Beauty #4 (Papilio)" is an original artwork by Anna Tas...

Please note: Artwork will be on display through February 25, 2024 and will be shipped to collectors within two weeks following the closing of the exhibition. This wall-hanging artwork titled "A Thing of Beauty #8 (Excelsa)" is an original artwork by Anna Tas...

Automobili I by Frank Schott a series of Industrial Style still life photographs (Ferrari) - details at iconic Italian race car performance garage 48 x 72inches / 122cm x 183cm edi...

a series of observations on French master paintings and their opulent gilded frames FRENCH MASTER by Frank Schott 60 x 48 inches / 152cm x 1...

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