Peter Buchman "No Portrait, No Landscape", Voice-Over Paintings Series, 2018

Contemporary New York artist Peter Buchman's "Once Upon a Time" is made of laser cut plexiglass, acrylic medium and enamel on wood. It's a part of his Voice-Over series. To explain that Buchman’s word paintings are ‘A Figure Of Speech’ is underestimating the level of soulfulness at which these works reside. They are markings directly from the artist’s hand yet are indications of many people before him. These are words from familiar phrases, music albums, his funny brand of irony and the human form itself. For this piece, in a manner of speaking, we are all running out of time, however Buchman’s soliloquy and ironic eye has fun with the notion that with humor and self effacement in a street-run-on sentence kind of rap he can get away with making fun and pointing out the obvious. Which isn’t always so obvious. Signed and dated en verso. This is a commissioned piece and will ship directly from the artist's studio. American artist Peter Buchman has BFA in Illustration from The Rhode Island School of Design and did a Sculpture Residency at The School of Visual Arts in New York. Peter's artwork has been exhibited throughout the US since 1981 including the Parrish Art Museum (Southampton, NY), Cooperstown Museum (NY), Delaware Museum of Art, Kidder Smith Gallery (MA) and Vered Gallery (East Hampton, NY). His work is included in the portfolios of collectors including Beth Rudin DeWoody, Nicole Miller, David Yurman and Howard Schultz...

Contemporary New York artist Peter Buchman's 'Note to Self' is created using laser-cut plexiglass, acrylic medium, and enamel on wood. It's part of his Voice-Over series, in which the artist gathers linguistic phrases to immortalize the valuable contributions of other cultures to the American Diaspora. To describe Buchman's word paintings as 'A Figure of Speech' is an understatement of the profound soulfulness they embody. They bear the marks of the artist's hand but also carry the collective spirit of many who came before him. These words derive from familiar phrases, music albums, his unique brand of irony, and the very essence of the human form. For this specific piece, 'Note to Self,' Peter is fascinated by what he said - she said and all of that back-and-forth cross-communication. Phrases like 'word on the street' and 'news at eleven'—we are all familiar with this kind of language, but how does it make us feel to see it stacked on top of each other? Writing lists, scribbling notes, verbatim, talking to ourselves or our partners... where does it all get us? Everywhere? Nowhere? This communication and street slang intrigues him. Whether he hears it or actually sees the words, the language grabs his attention, and he wants to discuss it again... with you, the viewer. Will you engage? Signed and dated en verso. This is a commissioned piece and will ship directly from the artist's studio. American artist Peter Buchman has BFA in Illustration from The Rhode Island School of Design and did a Sculpture Residency at The School of Visual Arts in New York. Peter's artwork has been exhibited throughout the US since 1981 including the Parrish Art Museum (Southampton, NY), Cooperstown Museum (NY), Delaware Museum of Art, Kidder Smith Gallery (MA) and Vered Gallery (East Hampton, NY). His work is included in the portfolios of collectors including Beth Rudin DeWoody, Nicole Miller, David Yurman and Howard Schultz...

Untitled (2021) Acrylic and paste on raw un-stretched canvas 230 x 150cm Education MA Fine Art, Chelsea College of Art, London (2015/16) Solo Exhibitions Scratchcard Paintings, Oliver Spencer - London, July 2019 No Blank Space, Silverthorne Lofts - London, December 2016 Collections to Inform Artwork, Chelsea College of Art Library - London, July 2016 Be The first of Your Friends To Like This, Punctum Gallery, Chelsea College of Art - London, April 2016 Group Exhibitions (Selected) Transatlantico, Mana Contemporary - New York, October 2020 Pazzo Palazzo, Palazzo Monto - Brescia, Italy, May 2019 Recreational Grounds - London, May 2019 Delphian Gallery Print Show, The Printspace - London, March 2019 The Spring Auction, The Auction Collective - London, March 2019 [s] Rhythms in Art Lacuna, Art Lacuna - London, January 2019 Abstract:Reality, Saatchi Gallery - London, December 2018 Not Available in Good Book Shop, Sluice Art Fair - London, September 2017 Raise All Spirits 2p, Finsbury Park...

Original art work. Hand painted, oil on canvas with thin wood frame. The art + design continuum of color theory, form, space and texture.