- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Beverly Buchanan (1940-2015)
- Creator:
- Klacsmann, Karen
- Date of Original:
- 2005-05-06
- Subject:
- Artists--Georgia--Athens
Women artists--Georgia--Athens
African American artists--Georgia--Athens
African American women artists--Georgia--Athens
Painters--Georgia--Athens
Women painters--Georgia--Athens
African American painters--Georgia--Athens
Buchanan, Beverly, 1940- - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Clarke County, 33.95117, -83.36733
United States, Georgia, Clarke County, Athens, 33.96095, -83.37794 - Medium:
- articles
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- text/html
- Description:
- Encyclopedia article about Beverly Buchanan. Beverly Buchanan found her calling as an artist after pursuing a career in health education and realizing that she wanted to express the images, stories, and architecture of her African American childhood. The sharecropper's shack, a disappearing fixture in the rural southern landscape, is often associated with poverty, but Buchanan sees it as an enduring image of vitality and creativity that is animated by the hopes and dreams of its inhabitants. By depicting vernacular architecture and its environment, Buchanan, who has lived and worked in Georgia for much of her adult life, constructs a narrative that serves as a metaphor for the triumph of the human spirit over poverty and adversity. Although academically trained, Buchanan utilizes the tools often associated with the self-taught artist, such as inserted text, found objects, and loosely applied vibrant color, to create visually the rich textures of the humble, yet complex, structures of her drawings, sculptures, prints, and photographs.
- Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/beverly-buchanan-1940-2015/
- Language:
- eng
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- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: "ARTICLE TITLE," New Georgia Encyclopedia. Retrieved [date]: http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org.
- Original Collection:
- Forms part of the New Georgia Encyclopedia.
- Holding Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
- Rights:
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