From the gallery: “Known for her poignant, photorealistic paintings in oil, and charcoal works on paper, Buer captures the abandoned recesses of the city, finding unexpected richness in its desolation and quietude in its abrupt vacancies. This ongoing body of work, first inspired by Buer’s time spent in Detroit, Michigan, exploring the hidden corners of the city and the fallow architectural remains left by the imploded American auto industry, has since evolved into a poetic series of documentary memorials, capturing moments in the derelict lifespan of the city’s castaway structures. Buer offers glimpses of time arrested, through the abeyance of abandoned buildings and the meditative calm of their imposing discontinuity, a barrenness that seems surreal by contrast to the excessively populated pace of the world we inhabit. Without human subjects, Buer places the symbolic burden of this absence upon that which remains in view: the physical vestiges of abandonment.”
The exhibition will be on view until January 26th, 2019.
I have to write a real post about the crazy thing that happened but I’m so behind I need to get a post out today while I’m still off work. There will be no best of posts this year, instead I’m whatever is beyond excited to tell you that with the gracious help of one of my oldest friends I’ve managed the leap to medium format digital photography. A leap I’ve been trying to make for a long long time and despite being very clever it’s been outside my reach.
I want to tell you the whole thing in a proper post because things like this just don’t happen in the world as I understand it and that’s worth thinking about some but not today.
Welcome to 2019 and the first images from my brand new Fuji GFX 50s. This year is going to be the year the real work gets started.
