Artist Awareness Post-Kendall Buster

Kendall Buster is a sculpture artist who currently works in Richmond as a professor in the Department of Sculpture and Extended Media at VCU. She went to the Corcoran College of Art and Design and got a BFA and then went on to get an MFA in sculpture at Yale. She has had her work exhibited in many venues, including the Hirshhorn and Kreeger Museums in DC. Much of her work focuses on architecturally inspired shapes with repeating patterns. In some of her work, she makes use of ranges of translucence in her forms, with layers of gauze material over armature.

Education:

1987 MFA Sculpture, Yale University, New Haven, CT

1984-85 Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, New York, NY

1981 BFA, Corcoran School of Art, Washington, DC

1976 BS Medical Technology, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL

Recent Permanent Commissions:

• 2019: Bloom and Billow, Nordstrom NYC Flagship, New York, NY

• 2018: Buoyant Bloom, Dominion Resources Headquarters, Richmond, VA Canopy, JBG Smith, Chrystal City, VA

• 2017: Cloud Field, Capital One Campus, Richmond, VA

• 2016: Torque Moment Torque Momentum, Cummins Headquarters, Indianapolis, IN

Recent Solo exhibitions:

• 2018:What Grows Under Extreme Circumstances, Hazard Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa

• 2016: Dis-assembling Utopias, Commune.1, Cape Town, South Africa, and Dis-assembling Utopias, GUS, Stellenbosch, South Africa

• 2013: Dual Apparitions, Soleri Bridge, Scottsdale, AZ, and Miniature Monumental, Gallery 307, Lamar Dodd School of Art, Athens, GA

Garden Snare, 1998, Kreeger Museum, Washington, DC, shadecloth. steel

This sculpture is an interactive piece designed for an enclosed garden at the Kreeger Museum in DC. It can be entered through an opening near the bottom, leaving the viewer almost completely enclosed when inside. With this piece, I like the combination of curved and straight lines, as it creates a more dynamic shape. I also like the layers that the sculpture has, which build up different levels of opacity

Parabiosis III, 2005, Material Terrain, curated by Carla Hanzel, Laumier Sculpture Park, St.Louis, MO

This sculpture is modeled after an imaginary city. It uses architectural patterning, while not limiting itself to a traditional horizon line or ground level. Like with Garden Snare, I really like the shapes within other shapes that this piece has. Additionally, I like the use of repeated shapes, particularly triangles, as it is a uniting factor across the different three-dimensional shapes

More information about Kendall Buster and her art can be found on her website: Kendall Buster Projects

Her CV/ Resume: busterresume2021