Beverly Buchanan
EDUCATION:
M.P.H., Columbia University, New York, NY 1969
M.S., Columbia University, New York, NY 1968
Bennett College, Greensboro, NC 1962
SOLO EXHIBITIONS, (selected listing):
Beverly Buchanan”, Art Museum of Missoula, Missoula, MT 1997
“Beverly Buchanan, Recent Works”, Hodges Taylor Gallery, Charlotte, NC 1997
“Beverly Buchanan, Visual Witnessing: Portraits of Shacks and Their Yards”, Steinbaum Krauss Gallery, New York, NY 1996
“Beverly Buchanan”, Spirit Square Center for the Arts and Education, Charlotte, NC 1996
“Beverly Buchanan”, Tubman African American Museum, Macon, GA 1996
“Beverly Buchanan, American Architecture: The Shack”, The Gallery of Contemporary Art, Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT 1996
“Beverly Buchanan: Shack Works: A 16-year Survey”, a mid-career retrospective hosted by the Montclair Museum of Art, Montclair, NJ (catalogue) travel tour 1994-1996: Museum of African American History, Detroit, MI; the Sidney Mishkin Gallery, Baruch College, NYC; SmithCollege Art Museum, Northampton, MA; Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE; Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC; Sharadin Art Gallery, Kutztown University, Kutztown, PA; Gainesville, GA; Chattahoochee Valley Art Museum, LaGrange, GA
“Beverly Buchanan Drawings and Sculpture: Dies the poverty of Material Things Necessitate the Poverty of Will and of Spirit?”, Steinbaum Krauss Gallery, New York, NY 1993
“Beverly Buchanan: In Celebration of Improvisational Architecture”, Schering-Plough Headquarters Gallery, Madison, NJ 1992
“Beverly Buchanan”, Three Rivers Arts Festival at Bell Of Pennsylvania Building, Pittsburgh, PA 1992
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
“Point of View,” Spruill Center for the Arts, Atlanta, GA 1997
“Text and Identity, Twelve Women/Twelve Artists.” University Art Gallery, Staller Center for the Arts, State University at Stony Brook, NY (catalogue) 1997
“Bearing Witness, Contemporary Works by African American Women Artist,” Spellman College Museum of Fine Art, national tour through 1999 (catalogue)
“9 Women in Georgia.” National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C., The Swan Coach Gallery, Atlanta, GA
“Beyond the Boundaries,” Jimmy Carter Library, Atlanta, GA
“Universe of Meaning,” Brattleboro Museum of Art, Brattleboro, VT 1995
“Photogenic: Women Artists of Color Re-viewing the Lens of History, Street Level Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland, travel tour through June, 1996
“Making Faces: American Portraits,” Hudson River Museum of Westchester, Yonkers, NY 1995
“House and Home: Spirits of the South,” the works of Beverly Buchanan, Max Belcher, and William Christenberry, organized by the Addison Gallery
Of American Aart, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA travel tour through January, 1996, including: Georgia Museum of Fine Art, Athens, GA;
Morris Museum, Augusta, GA; Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, NC; Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL (catalogue)
“Town & Country,” Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Advisory Services for General Electric Corp., CT 1994
ENVIRONMENTAL SCULPTURE INSTALLATIONS:
“Ruins and Rituals, The Museum of Arts and Science, Macon GA
“Marsh Ruins, Marshes of Glynn Park, Brunswick, GA
“Unity Stones,” Booker T. Washington Center, Macon GA
“Garden Ruins,” Contemporary Sculpture Garden, Winston-Salem State University, Winston-Salem, NC
“Blue Station Stones,” Earlington Heights Metro-Rail Station, Miami, FL
Atlanta Botanical Gardens, Atlanta, GA
High Museum of Art Children’s Museum, Atlanta, GA
SELECTED HONORS AND AWARDS:
Beverly Buchanan Day, March 17, 2000, City of Atlanta, its: sixth artist honored In the Masters Series
Georgia Women in the Visual Arts Honoree, the Georgia Commission on Women And the Georgia Women’s History Month Committee, 1997
National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education (NAFEO) 1997
Distinguished Alumni Citation Award, nominated by Bennett College
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Sculpture, 1997
Pollock-Krasneer Foundation Grant, 1994
Artist-in-Residence, Nexus Press, 1987-88
Guggenheim Fellowship, 1980
National endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Sculpture, 1990
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:
Amerda Hess Corp., New York
ARCO Corporation, Pennsylvania
Art South Inc., Philadelphia, PA
AT&T Corporation,, New Yersey
Bank of America Corporate Center, Charlotte, North Carolina
Baruch College, Willliam and Anita Newman Library, New York
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA
Colgate-Palmolive Corporation
Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, South Carolina
First Charter National Bank, Charlotte, North Carolina
Hanes Corporation, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Heery Corporation, Atlanta, Georgia
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, New Jersey
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Newark Museum, Newark, New Jersey
Reader’s Digest, New York
Southern Progress Corporation
Stillife Corporation, California
St. Paul Companies, St. Paul, Minnesota
Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, Florida
Museum of Arts and Sciences, Macon, Georgia
Winston-Salem State University, Sculpture Garden, Winston-Salem, NC
EDUCATION:
M.P.H., Columbia University, New York, NY 1969
M.S., Columbia University, New York, NY 1968
Bennett College, Greensboro, NC 1962
SOLO EXHIBITIONS, (selected listing):
Beverly Buchanan”, Art Museum of Missoula, Missoula, MT 1997
“Beverly Buchanan, Recent Works”, Hodges Taylor Gallery, Charlotte, NC 1997
“Beverly Buchanan, Visual Witnessing: Portraits of Shacks and Their Yards”, Steinbaum Krauss Gallery, New York, NY 1996
“Beverly Buchanan”, Spirit Square Center for the Arts and Education, Charlotte, NC 1996
“Beverly Buchanan”, Tubman African American Museum, Macon, GA 1996
“Beverly Buchanan, American Architecture: The Shack”, The Gallery of Contemporary Art, Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT 1996
“Beverly Buchanan: Shack Works: A 16-year Survey”, a mid-career retrospective hosted by the Montclair Museum of Art, Montclair, NJ (catalogue) travel tour 1994-1996: Museum of African American History, Detroit, MI; the Sidney Mishkin Gallery, Baruch College, NYC; SmithCollege Art Museum, Northampton, MA; Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE; Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC; Sharadin Art Gallery, Kutztown University, Kutztown, PA; Gainesville, GA; Chattahoochee Valley Art Museum, LaGrange, GA
“Beverly Buchanan Drawings and Sculpture: Dies the poverty of Material Things Necessitate the Poverty of Will and of Spirit?”, Steinbaum Krauss Gallery, New York, NY 1993
“Beverly Buchanan: In Celebration of Improvisational Architecture”, Schering-Plough Headquarters Gallery, Madison, NJ 1992
“Beverly Buchanan”, Three Rivers Arts Festival at Bell Of Pennsylvania Building, Pittsburgh, PA 1992
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
“Point of View,” Spruill Center for the Arts, Atlanta, GA 1997
“Text and Identity, Twelve Women/Twelve Artists.” University Art Gallery, Staller Center for the Arts, State University at Stony Brook, NY (catalogue) 1997
“Bearing Witness, Contemporary Works by African American Women Artist,” Spellman College Museum of Fine Art, national tour through 1999 (catalogue)
“9 Women in Georgia.” National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C., The Swan Coach Gallery, Atlanta, GA
“Beyond the Boundaries,” Jimmy Carter Library, Atlanta, GA
“Universe of Meaning,” Brattleboro Museum of Art, Brattleboro, VT 1995
“Photogenic: Women Artists of Color Re-viewing the Lens of History, Street Level Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland, travel tour through June, 1996
“Making Faces: American Portraits,” Hudson River Museum of Westchester, Yonkers, NY 1995
“House and Home: Spirits of the South,” the works of Beverly Buchanan, Max Belcher, and William Christenberry, organized by the Addison Gallery
Of American Aart, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA travel tour through January, 1996, including: Georgia Museum of Fine Art, Athens, GA;
Morris Museum, Augusta, GA; Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, NC; Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL (catalogue)
“Town & Country,” Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Advisory Services for General Electric Corp., CT 1994
ENVIRONMENTAL SCULPTURE INSTALLATIONS:
“Ruins and Rituals, The Museum of Arts and Science, Macon GA
“Marsh Ruins, Marshes of Glynn Park, Brunswick, GA
“Unity Stones,” Booker T. Washington Center, Macon GA
“Garden Ruins,” Contemporary Sculpture Garden, Winston-Salem State University, Winston-Salem, NC
“Blue Station Stones,” Earlington Heights Metro-Rail Station, Miami, FL
Atlanta Botanical Gardens, Atlanta, GA
High Museum of Art Children’s Museum, Atlanta, GA
SELECTED HONORS AND AWARDS:
Beverly Buchanan Day, March 17, 2000, City of Atlanta, its: sixth artist honored In the Masters Series
Georgia Women in the Visual Arts Honoree, the Georgia Commission on Women And the Georgia Women’s History Month Committee, 1997
National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education (NAFEO) 1997
Distinguished Alumni Citation Award, nominated by Bennett College
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Sculpture, 1997
Pollock-Krasneer Foundation Grant, 1994
Artist-in-Residence, Nexus Press, 1987-88
Guggenheim Fellowship, 1980
National endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Sculpture, 1990
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:
Amerda Hess Corp., New York
ARCO Corporation, Pennsylvania
Art South Inc., Philadelphia, PA
AT&T Corporation,, New Yersey
Bank of America Corporate Center, Charlotte, North Carolina
Baruch College, Willliam and Anita Newman Library, New York
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA
Colgate-Palmolive Corporation
Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, South Carolina
First Charter National Bank, Charlotte, North Carolina
Hanes Corporation, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Heery Corporation, Atlanta, Georgia
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, New Jersey
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Newark Museum, Newark, New Jersey
Reader’s Digest, New York
Southern Progress Corporation
Stillife Corporation, California
St. Paul Companies, St. Paul, Minnesota
Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, Florida
Museum of Arts and Sciences, Macon, Georgia
Winston-Salem State University, Sculpture Garden, Winston-Salem, NC