Callicoon Fine Arts is pleased to present Applied Flesh, an exhibition of paintings and drawings by Nicholas Buffon on view from January 27th to February 26th, 2012. A performance by the artist will take place in the gallery during the exhibition, date to be announced.
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Callicoon Fine Arts is pleased to present Applied Flesh, an exhibition of paintings and drawings by Nicholas Buffon on view from January 27th to February 26th, 2012. A performance by the artist will take place in the gallery during the exhibition, date to be announced.
Nicholas Buffon’s works, completed over the last 6 months in Washington State, are shown here together with a small painting by the artist’s father, Dave Buffon, who started covering areas of his images of faces with white paint. The exhibition’s title, Applied Flesh, is taken from the artist’s thesis on performance, a detailed study that defines his performance practice, its methods and meanings.
While the drawings illustrate actions specific to the artist’s performances, the paintings are a parallel practice utilizing abstraction and articulate relationships between the two genres. With each painting the metaphoric “flesh” is applied on canvases that have been stretched, un-stretched and re-stretched over the course of working on them. Often the abstract images are formed around and within the textures that the canvases pick up during this process. For the artist, the materials and processes of painting are analogous to the body in performance: flesh as material, movement as method.
Nicholas Buffon, born 1987 in Seattle, Washington, lives in Brooklyn, NY. He attended the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, Boston MA (BFA 2008) and the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College, Annandale-on Hudson, NY (MFA 2011). His work was included in Art on Paper 2010: The 41st Exhibition at the Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC. He has performed many times since 2007 including at Mount Tremper Arts, NY and at the 10th OPEN International Performance Festival in Beijing.
