Visual Art

at the Wilson Center

Ploch Art Gallery

DerrickBuish

Splitscreen

September 4–October 26, 2007

Derrick Buisch started as a landscape painter and while he would no longer be classified as such, his present work would be described as abstract, in a way he still paints landscape. When you look out onto a scene it is a something that isn’t there that Derrick paints.

It seems to me that Derrick’s subject matter doesn’t quite fit into our present system of order.

A precedent was set for Buisch’s brand of abstract painting by American abstract painters of the 50s. Abstract painter Barnet Newman painted time by painting a line to divide an otherwise solid field of color on his canvas. This sort of painting makes time more real; viewing one you can appreciate finitude and an amalgamation of energy and stillness. Buisch’s paintings work with something even more nondescript than time. Derrick concentrates on the development of and idiosyncratic abstract visual language, he focuses on the drawing, structure, and color of pedestrian sources such as roadside signs, strip malls, graffiti, tattoos, and product symbol design.

The 2007-08 Ploch Art Gallery Season was presented by

Marjorie A. & Raymond G. Vallier

with contributing support from

The Equitable Bank