WILLIAM BUCHINA – LOW INFORMATION SETTINGS
2021-03-08The discovery, examination, and reimagining of a vast array of visual and conceptual references is essential to Buchina’s creative process. His works meld seemingly disparate figures, places, and scenarios into Surrealist-style compositions, offering viewers hints at a narrative trajectory only to leave the trail unfinished or abruptly shifting in a different direction. Produced with the line precision of graphic novels and the bold, flat monochromatics of Pop art, Buchina’s paintings and works on paper are filled with rich detail that compels active viewing and invites personal interpretation.
The open-ended nature of Buchina’s work takes on particular meaning in his two latest series, Scenery and Low Information Settings—the latter of which also gives the exhibition its name, as he draws on the news cycles and happenings that have captivated and divided our nation and the world in recent years. Indeed, Low Information Settings was inspired by Buchina’s reading on a recent conflict in a remote mountainous region, which a news report referred to as a “low information setting” or an area where access to news and outside information is limited. For Buchina, this idea offered a dynamic contrast to places like the United States, where access to content is not only easy but overwhelming, but where misinformation and mistrust of institutions have equally proliferated to detrimental effects.
Opposite – Low Information Settings #2
Exhibition runs through to April 24th, 2021
Hollis Taggart
521 W 26th Street, 1st Floor
NY 10001
New York
