BEVERLY BUCHANAN
DATE OF BIRTH: October 8, 1940, Fuquay, North Carolina,
Raised in Orangeburg, South Carolina on the campus of S.C. State University,
where her father was the Dean of the Dept of Agriculture.
EDUCATION
1969 Columbia University, M.P.H.
1968 Columbia University, M.S.
1962 Bennett College, Greensboro, NC, B.S.
SELECTED HONORS AND AWARDS
1997 Georgia Women in the Visual Arts Honoree, The Georgia Commission on
Women and the Georgia Women'sHistory Month Committee.
6th Annual Masters Series:Beverly Buchanan, City Gallery East, City of Atlanta
Bureau of Cultural Affairs, GA
1997 National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education (NAFEO)
1997 Distinguished Alumni Citation Award, nominated by Bennett College,
1997
1994 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in sculpture, 1994
1994 The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award, 1994
1980 Guggenheim Fellowship, 1980
1980 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in sculpture, 1980
SOLO EXHIBITIONS (selected listing)
2000 Beverly Buchanan - 6th Annual Masters Series, City Gallery East, Bureau
of Cultural Affairs, Atlanta, GA
1998 Beverly Buchanan: Home Is A Magnet, Steinbaum Krauss Gallery, NYC
1997 Beverly Buchanan, Art Museum of Missoula, Missoula, Montana
Beverly Buchanan: The Rural South, Drawing and Sculptures, Opelika Arts
Gallery Opelika, AL and Auburn University, Auburn, AL
Beverly Buchanan, McCintosh Gallery, Atlanta, GA
1996 Beverly Buchanan, Visual Witnessing: Portraits of Shacks and Their
Yards, Steinbaum Krauss Gallery, NYC
Beverly Buchanan, Spirit Square Center for the Arts and Education, Charlotte,
NC
Beverly Buchanan, Tubman African American Museum, Macon, Georgia
Beverly Buchanan, American Architecture: The Shack, The Gallery of Contemporary
Art, Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT
1994-96Beverly Buchanan: ShackWorks: A 16 Year Survey, a mid-career retrospective
hosted by The Montclair Museum of Art, Montclair, NJ, (catalogue) travel
tour 1994-1996: Musuem of African American History, Detroit, MI; The Sidney
Mishkin Gallery, Baruch College, NYC; Smith College Art Museum, Northampton,
MA; Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE; Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia,
SC; Sharadin Art Gallery, Kutztown University, Kutztown, PA; Edison Community
College Gallery of Fine Art, Fort Meyers, FL; Brenau University Galleries,
Gainsville, GA; Chattahoochee Valley Art Museum, LaGrange, GA
1993 Beverly Buchanan Drawings and Sculpture: Does the Poverty of Material
Things Necessitate the Poverty of Will and of Spirit?, Steinbaum Krauss
Gallery, NYC
1992 Beverly Buchanan: In Celebration of Improvisational Architecture, Schering-Plough
Headquarters Gallery, Madison, NJ
Beverly Buchanan, Three Rivers Arts Festival, at Bell of Pennsylvania Building,
Pittsburg, PA
Beverly Buchanan (Parameters 7), The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA
Beverly Buchanan, Jacksonville Art Museum, Jacksonville Florida
1991 Beverly Buchanan: Drawings, Sculptures, Legends, Photography, Bernice
Steinbaum Gallery, NYC
Beverly Buchanan: In Celebration of The Shack, Hoffman Gallery, Oregon School
of Arts and Crafts, Portland, OR
Beverly Buchanan, Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC
1990 A Celebration of the Architecture of the Shack in Two and Three Dimensions,
Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, New York, New York
Beverly Buchanan, Phyllis Rothman Gallery, Fairleigh Dickenson Univ., Madison,
NJ
Beverly Buchanan, Museum of Arts and Sciences, Macon, GA
1989 Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art Sculpture Garden, Winston-Salem,
N.C.
1987 Heath Gallery, Inc., Atlanta, Ga.
1986 Heath Gallery, Inc., Atlanta, Ga.
1982 University of Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama
1981 Kornblee Gallery, New York City
Heath Gallery, Inc., Atlanta, Georgia
1978 Truman Gallery, New York City
1977 Mercer University, Macon, Georgia
1974 Upsala College, East Orange, NJ
1972 Cinque Gallery, New York
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2000 Reading Between the Lines: Image and Text by Contemporary African American
Artists, Salt Lake Art Center, Salt Lake City, Utah
1999 The Comforts of Home, Hand Workshop Art Center, Richmond, VA
From Your House to Our House, Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA
The Invisible Inner City, Art Museum of Western Virginia, Roanoke, VA
Re/Righting History, Counternarratives By Contemporary African-American
Artists, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY
1998 The Moore's Ford Memorial Art Exhibition, Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation,
Watkinsville, GA
Resonant Forms: Contemporary African American Women Sculptors, Smithsonian
Institution, Anacostia Museum and Center for African American History and
Culture, Washington, D.C..
Selections from Soho’s Steinbaum Krauss Gallery, Fort Lewis College
Art Gallery, Durango, CO
Group exhibition, Steinbaum Krauss Gallery, NYC
Coming Off The Wall, The Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA (catalogue)
1997 Point of View, Spruill Center for the Arts, Atlanta, Georgia
Text and Identity, Twelve Women/Twelve Artists, University Art Gallery,
Staller Center for the Arts, State University at Stony Brook, Stony Brook,
NY (catalogue)
Brenau University, National Invitational, Brenau University Galleries, Gainsville,
GA
1996 Bearing Witness: Contemporary Works by African American Women Artists,
Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, national tour through 1999 (catalogue)
Woman's Work: A Century of Achievement in American Art, The Columbus Museum,
Columbus, Georgia
African American Women Artists, Sweet Briar College, Sweet Briar, VA
Aspects of African-American Art, Walsh Library Gallery, Seton Hall University,
South Orange, NJ and The Atrium Gallery, Chubb Group of Insurance Companies,
Warren, NJ
9 Women in Georgia, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C.,
The Swan Coach Gallery, Atlanta, GA (catalogue)
Beyond the Boundries, Jimmy Carter Library, Atlanta, Georgia
1995 Universe of Meaning, Brattleboro Museum of Art, Brattleboro, VT
Photogenetic: Women Artists of Color Re-Viewing the Lens of History, Street
Level Gallery, Glasgow, Scottland, travel tour through June 1996
Making Faces: American Portraits, Hudson River Museum of Westchester, Yonkers,
NY
In Three Dimensions: Women Sculptors of the 90's: Part I, Issues of Gender,
Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY
1994-96 House and Home: Spirits of the South, the work of Beverly Buchanan,
Max Belcher, and William Christenberry, organized by the Addison Gallery
of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA, travel tour through January
1996 including: Georgia Museum of Art, Athens GA; Morris Museum, Augusta,
GA; Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, NC; Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa,
FL (catalogue)
1994 Memories of Childhood...so we're not the Cleavers or the Brady Bunch,
Steinbaum Krauss Gallery, NYC, (catalog) travel tour through 1997
Empowerment: The Art of African American Artists, Krasdale Foods and Lehman
College Art Gallery, NY, June-Sept., 1994
House Sweet House, New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ (catalogue)
Sharing the Dream, Sangre de Cristo Arts & Conference Center, Pueblo,
CO; The College of Sante Fe, Sante Fe, NM; Hampton University Museum, Hampton,
VA. (catalouge)
Town & Country, Museum of Modern Art, NY, Advisory Service for General
Electric Corp., CT
Plural America*Singular Journey, The Art Guild, Farmington, CT. March 17-April
17, 1994
1993 93 Holiday Greetings & Wishes for 1994, Steinbaum Krauss Gallery,
NYC
The Black Family, The Patrick and Beatrice Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette
University, Milwaukee, WI (catalogue)
Dolls In Contemporary Art: Metaphors of Personal Identity, The Patrick and
Beatrice Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI (catalogue)
Multicultural Americana, Florida Community College at Jacksonville, Jacksonville
Florida
Highlights, Contemporary Art Collection of Brown-Forman Corporation, Actors
Theatre of Louisville, KY
Women's Art, Women's Lives, Women's Issues, Tweed Gallery NY and NYC Commission
on the Status of Women
The Paul R. Jones Collection: African American Art, University Gallery,
University of Delaware, Newark, DE (catalogue)
1992 Conflict and Transcendence: African-American Art in South Carolina,
Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC, (catalogue)
Present Tense, University of Wisconsin, Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI (catalogue)
The Art & Architectural Perspectives of Three Southern Artists Madison-Morgan
Cultural Center, Madison, GA
30th Annual Group Exhibition: Major 20th Century Artists, Foster Harmon
Galleries of American Art, Sarasota, FL
Women with a Concern, Mary Mount Manhattan Gallery, NYC
1991 43rd Annual American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, Purchase
Exhibition, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, NYC
Bertoia, Buchanan, Edwards, Mitchell: Sculpture Update, The Diggs Gallery,
Winston-Salem State University, Winston-Salem, NC (catalogue)
Broadening the Collection, Roland Gibson Gallery, Potsdam College, SUNY,
Potsdam, NY
Other Voices: Mediating Between Ethnic Traditions and the Modernist Mainstream,
The Baxter Gallery, Portland School of Art, Portland, ME (brochure)
Statements of Heritage: Variant American Visions, South Carolina State Museum,
Columbia, SC
Spotlight on Georgia Artists X, The Trinity School, Atlanta, GA
Living Space: Interior, Exterior, Alijra, Center for Contemporary Art, Newark,
NJ
A Sense of Place, Montgomery Museum of Fine Art,Montgomery, Alabama (catalogue)
Vital Signs, "An Exhibition of Art in Atlanta", Nexus Gallery,
Atlanta, Georgia
African American Works on Paper From the Cochran Collection, New Visions
Gallery, Atlanta, GA (traveling schedule through February 1995)
INsights, Arno Maris Gallery, Westfield State College, Westfield, MA
1990 American Resources II, Stein Gallery, Tampa,Florida
10 African American Women Artists, Holman Hall Gallery, Trenton State College,
Trenton, New Jersey
Active Cultures Part I, Firehouse Gallery, Nassau Community College, Garden
City, NY
Chaney, Goodman and Schwerner, The Mississippi Three: The Struggle Continues,
Soho 20, New York, New York (catalogue)
Next Generation, Southeastern Center For Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem,
North Carolina (traveling) (catalogue)
Lift Every Voice: Atlanta's Black Artistic Heritage, Atlanta Historical
Society, Atlanta,GA
The Decade Show, The Studio Museum in Harlem, NYC (catalogue)
New History: Sculptural Installations, Atlanta College of Art, Woodruff
Arts Center, Atlanta, GA (brochure)
Diversity of Vision, Womens Art Registry of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Sculptor's Drawings, East Hampton Center for Contemporary Art, East Hampton,
NY (catalogue)
Contemporary Art of The African Diaspora, University Art Gallery, State
University of New York, Albany, NY
Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC (catalogue)
1989 Social Studies, University Galleries, Illinois State University, Normal,
Illinois
A Woman's Place, Erector Square Gallery, New Haven, Ct.
Atlanta/New York, Axis Twenty, Atlanta, Ga.
On and Off Your Rocker, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, NYC (traveling) (catalogue)
Alice, and look who else, Through the Looking Glass, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery,
NYC (traveling) (catalogue)
Ann Reed Gallery, Ketchum, Idaho
American Resources: Selected works of African American Artists, Bernice
Steinbaum Gallery, NYC (catalogue)
Contemporary African American Artists, Downtown Arts Gallery at Church Street
Centre, Nashville, TN
Albright Knox Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Contemporary Women Drawers, Hillwood Art Gallery, C.W. Post, Long Island
University, Brookville, NY (traveling) (catalogue)
The Family in Contemporary Art, Nexus, Philadelphia, PA
1988 Spectacles, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Ga.
Southern Expressions: A Sense of Self, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA (catalogue)
The Family in Contemporary Art, Nexus, Philadelphia, Pa.
Influences from the Untaught: Contemporary Drawings, Drawing Center, NYC
100 Drawings by Women, Hillwood Art Gallery, Long Island University, Brookville,
New York, and traveling with U.S.I.A. through 1990
Winston-Salem State University Fine Arts Gallery, Winston-Salem, NC
Contemporary Artists in Georgia: Selections from the High Museum's Collection,
High Museum, Atlanta, Ga.
Women of Color, National Artists Book Project, Houston, Texas
Artists in Georgia: 1988, Nexus Contemporary Art, Atlanta, GA (catalogue)
1987 small scale sculpture LARGE SCALE SCULPTURE, The Atlanta College of
Art and Colony Square, Atlanta, GA
Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia
Atlanta Biennial, Nexus, Inc., Atlanta, Georgia
Hodges Taylor Gallery, Charlotte, North Carolina
Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, Louisiana
Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
1986 "Born in North Carolina", Jerald Melberg Gallery, Charlotte,
North Carolina
Harris Brown Gallery, Boston, Mass.
1985 Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, North Carolina
1984 African-American Art in Atlanta: Public & Corporate Collections,
High Museum of Art, Atalnta, GA
Kornblee Gallery, New York City
1982 Sculptural Arts Museum, Atlanta, Georgia
Ritual and Myth: A Survey of African American Art, Studio Museum of Harlem,
New York City
Beaver College, Glenside, Penn.
1980 Dialectics of Isolation, A.I.R. Gallery, New York City
Maquettes, Robeson Gallery, Rutger's University, Newark, NJ
1977 Truman Gallery, New York City
1976 City Walls, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
1975 Cinque Gallery, New York City
1973 Cinque Gallery, New York City
The Silvermine Guild, New England
1971 Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, New York
1963 Staten Island Museum, Staten Island, N.Y.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCULPTURE INSTALLATIONS
Ruins and Rituals, The Museum of Arts & Science, Macon, Georgia
Marsh Ruins, Marshes of Glynn Park, Brunswick, Georgia
Unity Stones, Booker T. Washington Center, Macon, Georgia
Garden Ruins, Contemporary Sculpture Garden, Winston-Salem State University,
Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Blue Station Stones, Earlington Heights Metro-Rail Station, Miami, Florida
Atlanta Botanical Gardens, Atlanta, Georgia
High Museum of Art Children's Museum, Atlanta, Georgia
SELECTED LECTURES AND VISITING ARTIST ENGAGEMENTS
1998 Lecture, Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, GA, January 18, 1998.
1996 Lecture, "What They Did Not Teach Me at the Arts Students League",
University of Georgia, Lamar Dodd School of Art, Athens, GA. March 28, 1996
1995 Keynote, Kutztown University Art Education Conference, Kutztown, PA,
October 27, 1995
Panel Discussion, Perspectives on Contemporary Art and Folk Art, Moderator:
Lowery S. Simms, Associate Curator of 20th Century Art, Metropolitan Museum
of Art, Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium., NYC, Sunday, April 23, 1995 3:00
Discussion, House and Home: Spirits of the South, with William Christenberry
and Max Belcher, Georgia Museum of Art, Athens Georgia, March 19, 1995
1994 Lecture, Gallery talk in conjuction with House and Home: Spirits of
the South, Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA,
April 24, 1994
Lecture, In conjunction with ShackWorks: A 16 Year Survey, The Montclair
Art Musuem, Montclair, NJ, May 1, 1994
1991 Beverly Buchanan, The Emrys Foundation and the Greenville County Museum
of Art, Greenville,SC, Sept. 17
1990 New History, Sculptural Installations, Atlanta College of Art, Woodruff
Arts Center, Atlanta, Ga, July 25
SELECTED PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Mrs. Elizabeth Blake, Dallas, TX
Dr. and Mrs. Aaron Borenstein, Fort Wayne, IN
Crystal Britton, Atlanta, GA
Lucinda W.Bunnen, Atlanta, GA
Sabra Calland, New Caanan, CT
Knox Clayton, Atlanta, Georgia
Eleanor Flomenhaft, New York, NY
Shirley Franklin, Atlanta, Georgia
Nancy and Peter Gennet, Napa, CA
Dr. R. Kirbey Godsey, Macon, GA
Lenore Gold, Atlanta, GA
Jerry and Louise Kaplan, Macon, GA
Diane Kelder, NYC
Jill Kornblee, Weston, CT
Dr. Gail Lamb, Atlanta, GA
Marianne Lambert, Atlanta, GA
Estate of Joseph Langford, Atlanta, GA
Mrs. Norman Lewis, Weston, CT
Lucy Lippard, NM
Jerry Magnin, CA
Elaine Marshall, Lillington, NC
John Meyer, Clemson, SC
Steven Molasky, Las Vegas, Nevada
Mrs. Stanley Mortimer, Litchfield, CT
Patricia Phagan, Athens, GA
Mr. and Mrs. David Plaxico, Macon, GA
Alicia Rahm, Montclair, NJ
Lois Fichner-Rathus, NJ
Ann Rogerson, Montclair, NJ
Fran Scher, NJ
Elizabeth Sewell, Greensboro, NC
Mitzi and Ed Shewmake, Winston-Salem, NC
Dr. Edwin Slappey, Macon, GA
Suzanne Slesin, New York, NY
Norma Jean Smiley, New York, New York
Dr. and Mrs. Harold Steinbaum, NY
Jim and Esther Stokes, Atlanta, GA
Jock Truman, NYC
Ruth Wagner, Durham, NC
Mr. JH Webb, Macon, GA
Mr. Clarence White, Atlanta, GA
Mr. & Mrs. John Wieland, Atlanta, GA
Ester Weissman, Shaker Heights, OH
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Amerada Hess Corp., New York
ARCO Corporation, Pennsylvania
Art South Inc., Philadelphia, PA
AT&T Corporation, New Jersey
Baruch College, William and Anita Newman Library, NY
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
Carter Center Library, Atlanta, Ga
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA
Colgate-Palmolive Corp.
Collaboration, Akron, Ohio
Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC
General Mills, Minneapolis, MN
Hanes Corporation, Winston-Salem, NC
Heery Corporation, Atlanta, Georgia
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
The Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Morris Museum of Southern Art, Augusta, GA
Muscarelle Museum of Art, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA
Newark Museum, Newark, NJ
NationsBank, GA
Reader's Digest, New York
Southern Progress Corporation
Stillife Corporation, CA
St. Paul Companies, St. Paul, MN
Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, Florida
The Museum of Arts and Sciences, Macon Georgia
Winston Salem State University, Sculpture Garden
SELECTED BOOKS AND CATALOGUES
1999 Hillstrom, Laurie Collier and Kevin Hillstrom, Eds. Contemporary Women
Artists, St. James Press, Framingham Hills, MI, p 93-94.
1998 Ekern, Kirsten, and Venke Aure., Kunst og Håndverk (Art and Handicraft),
H. Ascheloug & Co. (Richard’s Home), p 81.
Fichner-Rathus, Lois. Understanding Art, Fifth Edition, Prentice-Hall, Simon
& Schuster, Upper Saddle River, NJ, p.80
Turner, Robyn Montana. State of the Art, Grade 3, Barrett Kendall Publishing,
Ltd., Austin, TX p 88,89,102,103,104.
Coming Off The Wall, The Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA (group exhibition
catalogue)
1997 Powell, Richard J. Black Art and Culture in the 20th Century, Thames
and Hudson Ltd., London, (p. 174 Richard's Home pictured).
Gaze, Delia. ed., Dictionary of Women Artists, Volume 1, (of 2) Artists
A-I, Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, London, Chicago, p. 331-334.
Remer, Abby., Pioneering Spirits: The Lives and Times of Remarkable Women
Artists in Western History, Davis Publications, Worcester, MA.. 1997 (mention
p. 140)
Sayre, Henry M.. A World of Art, 2nd Edition, Prentice-Hall Inc., Simon
& Schuster, 1997, p. 184-185 (pictured Monroe County House with Yellow
Datura; Richard's Home; Ms. Mary Lou Furcron's House, Deserted).
Text and Identity, Twelve Women/Twelve Artists, University Art Gallery,
Staller Center for the Arts, State University at Stony Brook, Stony Brook,
NY (exhibition catalogue)
Stewart, Marilyn G. Thinking Through Aesthetics Art Education in Practice
Series, Davis Publications Inc., Worcester, MA. 1997, p 34-35 (with reproduction
of The Fence & 4 Shacks, 1991)
1996 Bearing Witness: Contemporary Works by African American Women Artists,
Spelman College and Rizzoli International Publications Inc., (exhibition
catalogue)
Britton, Crystal A., African American Art, The Long Struggle, Todtri Productions,
Limited, NY, Smithmark Publishers, NY, 1996
9 Women in Georgia, Georgia Committee of the National Museum of Women in
the Arts, (exhibition catalogue), Washington D.C.
Morton, Robert, Editor., American Images, The SBC Collection of Twentieth
Century American Art, Ó SBC Communications Inc., Published by Harry
N. Abarms, Inc., NYC
1995 Driskell, David C., Editor, African American Visual Aesthetics: A Postmodernist
View, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington DC, London (see Chapter
3 The African American Aesthetic and Postmodernism by Ann Gibson) (color
plates 11,12,13)
In Three Dimensions: Women Sculptors of the 90's, Newhouse Center for Contemporary
Art, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY, (exhibition catalogue)
Lippard, Lucy R., The Pink Glass Swan: Selected Feminist Essays on Art,
New Press, NY, (a collection of essays previously published 1970-1993)
Understanding Art, Fourth Edition, Lois Fichner-Rathus., Prentice-Hall,
Simon & Schuster, Englewood Cliffs, NJ
Universe of Meaning, Brattleboro Museum of Art, Brattleboro, VT (brochure)
1994 Beverly Buchanan: ShackWorks, a 16 Year Survey, The Montclair Art Museum,
Montclair, NJ (exhibition catalogue)
House and Home: Spirits of the South, The Addison Gallery of Contemporary
Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA (exhibition catalogue)
Sharing the Dream, Sangre De Cristo Art Center, Pueblo, CO; College of Sante
Fe, Sante Fe, NM; Hampton University Museum, Hampton, VA (exhibition catalogue)
Empowerment: The Art of African American Artists, Krasdale Foods and Lehman
College Art Gallery, NY (exhibition catalogue)
House Sweet House, New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ, (exhibition
catalogue)
Memories of Childhood...so we're not the Cleavers or the Brady Bunch, Steinbaum
Krauss Gallery, NYC (exhibition catalogue)
1993 The Black Family, The Patrick and Beatrice Haggerty Museum of Art,
Marquette University, Milwaukee WI (exhibition catalogue)
Dolls in Contemporary Art, A Metaphor of Personal Identity, The Patrick
and Beatrice Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI
(exhibition catalogue)
The Paul R. Jones Collection: African American Art, University Gallery and
The Department of Art History, University of Delaware, Newark, DE
From Hard Hat to Top Hat, The Jewish Museum's Masked Purim Ball in Celebration
of the reopening. March 1993
1992 Beverly Buchanan: In Celebration of Improvisational Architecture, Schering-Plough
Corp., Madison, New Jersey, (exhibition catalogue)
Beverly Buchanan, Three Rivers Arts Festival at Bell of Pennsylvania Building,
Pittsburg, PA, (exhibition catalogue)
Beverly Buchanan (Parameters 7), The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia,
(exhibition catalogue)
Conflict and Transcendence: African-American Art in South Carolina, Columbia
Museum of Art, Columbia, SC, (exhibition catalogue)
King-Hammond, Leslie. Ed., Anthology of Contemporary African-American Women
Artists, Midmarch Arts Press, New York, NY
Seigel, Judy, Ed. Mutiny and The Mainstream: Talk That Changed Art, 1975
- 1990, Midmarch Arts Press, New York, NY
1991 Other Voices, Mediating Between Ethnic Traditions and the Modernist
Mainstream, The Baxter Gallery, Portland School of Art
Statements of Heritage: Varient American Visions, South Carolina States
Arts Commission
African American Works on Paper From the Cochran Collection, Traveling exhibition
catalogue
INsights, Arno Maris Gallery, Westfield State College, Exhibition catalogue
Bertoia, Buchanan, Edwards, Mitchel: Sculpture Update, Diggs Gallery, Winston-Salem
State University, NC, Exhibition catalogue
1990 A Sense of Place: Seven Contemporary Southern Artists, Montgomery
Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama
Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, The University of North Carolina
at Greensboro, 1990
Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner: The Mississippi Three - The Struggle Continues,
SoHo 20, New York
Diversity of Vision, Contemporary Works by African-American Women, WARM
Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
Lippard, Lucy R. Mixed Blessings, New Art in Multicultural America, Pantheon
Books, NY
Next Generation: Southern Black Aesthetic, Southeastern Center for Contemporary
Art (SECCA), 1990
Sculptor's Drawings, The East Hampton Center for Contemporary Art, East
Hampton, NY
The Decade Show, Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art, The New Museum of
Contemporary Art, The Studio Museum in Harlem, 1990
1989 American Resources: Selected Works of African American Artists Exhibition
catalogue, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery
Collischan Van Wagner, Judy K., Lines of Vision, Drawings by Contemporary
Women, Hudson Hills Press, NY
Social Studies: Truth, Justice and the Afro-American Way Exhibition catalogue,
Illinois State University
1988 Spectacles: A Guide to the Exhibition for Children and Accompanying
Adults, The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA (exhibition catalogue)
Southern Expressions: A Sense of Self, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA (exhibition
catalogue)
1986 Exposition in Black 11, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, Louisiana
1983 Lippard, Lucy. Overlay: Contemporary Art and the Art of Prehistory,
Pantheon Books, New York, 1983
1980 Dialectics of Isolation, An Exhibition of Third World Women Artists
of the United States, A.I.R. Gallery, NYC
1976 Women in the Arts Artists Choice 1976-1977, Women in the Arts Foundation
Inc., 1976 NY
SELECTED REVIEWS AND ARTICLES
1998 _____, "Spotlight on Art", Pre View, January-March 1998,
Telfair Museum of Art
Broadus-Garcia, Cassandra. "Images of Home Places: Beverly Buchanan",
SchoolArts, vol. 97, no. 6, February 1998, 31-34 (Child in Garden, 1996,
pictured).
_____, “Gallery opens season with ‘Selections from Soho’”,
The Daily Times, August 21-27, 1998
Burchard, Hank. “Sculpting Women: Carving their Niche”, The
Washington Post, Friday, June 26, 1998 p 67-68
Glueck, Grace. "Beverly Buchanan", The New York Times, Art Guide,
Friday, March 6, 1998, E43. (review).
Iverem, Esther. “Sculpture Shaped from Time, Trouble and Triumph”
The Washington Post, Tuesday, July 7, 1998 p. C1
Votel, Missy “Soho by way of Durango” Cross Currents, September
4, 1998 p. 17
1997 _____, "Beverly Buchanan's Shackworks featured...", Missoula
Art Museum News, Winter, 1997
Badder, Jennifer., "Common Structures", Missoula Independent,
January 16-January 23, 1997, Vol. 8, No. 3, p. 15
Braff, Phyllis., The Feminine Image in Its Many Facets in the 20th Century",
Text and Identity: 12 Women/12 Artists, The New York Times, Sunday, April
6, 1997, L.I. 14. exhibition review
Bridson, Susan., "At University Gallery - Text and Identity",
The Three Village Herald, Endpaper, April 2, 1997 p. 27, (exhibition review).
Dietrich, Jeff., "Beverly Buchanan's Shacks and Legends: Generating
Art Through Writing", School Arts, February, 1997, Vol. 96, No. 6.
Fox, Catherine., "Museum with a Mission", The Atlanta Journal-Constitution,
Sunday, January 26, 1997 Section M.
_____., "Art to the Touch", Missoulian, Monday, February 3, 1997,
Section C, 4U
Landi, Ann. “You Won’t Go `Huh’?” Newsday, May 9,
1997 (review contemporary Amer. Art from Five Towns Collections)
Leonard, Pamela Bloom. "Buchanan's shacks becoming hospitable",
Atlanta Journal Constitution, Friday, December 12, 1997.
Merriam, Ginny., "Art for Kids", Missoulian, Friday, January 17,
1997. E8.
Phillips, Julie., "An Artistic Celebration of King", Athens Daily
News/Athens Banner-Herald, Sunday, January 19, 1997, Section C, p. 1 &
5.
Thrasher, Paula Crouch., "Creative Women", The Atlanta-Journal
Consitution, Tuesday, March 4, 1997
1996 Dart, Bob. "`9 Women in Georgia' displays state's best at D.C.
art museum", The Atlanta Journal/ The Atlanta Constitution, Tuesday,
March, 5, 1996
Fairfield Citizen-News, "`American Shack' Focus of SHU Exhibit",
May 1, 1996.
Fairfield Minuteman, "New SHU Exhibit Built Around `Shack' Themes",
May 5, 1996.
Patterson, Tom. "2 Spirit Square shows celebrate women's strength",
The Charlotte Observer, 2F, Sunday, April 28, 1996 (exhibition review)
Sound People, "African-American Artist Depicts the American Shack in
Solo Exhibit at SHU", May 1996.
Women in the Arts, "Nine Women in Georgia", publication of the
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Spring 1996, p. 6, 16.
Zimmer, William. "Sculptural Installation of large Intention",
The New York Times, Sunday, Art, CN 20, November 3, 1996
1995 Augusta Focus. "House and Home: Spirits of the South symposium
at Morris," May 11, 1995
Athens Daily News Banner-Herald. "Exhibit explores the rural South,"
Sunday, March 26, 1995
Copley, Rich. "Curator has pulled together three artists and their
work for traveling exhibit now at Morris Museum," The Augusta Chronicle,
Thursday, May 25, 1995
Culligan, Jenine. "Beverly Buchanan: ShackWorks, A 16-Year Survey",
Delaware Museum Quarterly ' 95, Spring, Volume 20, 1995
Day, Jeffrey. "Exhibit full of 'portraits'," The State, Tempo,
June 18, 1995
Donn, Jeff. Associated Press "Shacks Reflect a Culture's Struggles",
Union News, Friday, February 24, 1995
Donn, Jeff., Associated Press, "Artist Fixes on Image from Childhood",
The Charlotte Observer, Tuesday, February 21, 1995
Donn, Jeff. Associated Press, "The Lowly Shack Becomes High Art",
The Billings Gazette, MT, Tuesday, February 21, 1995
Donn, Jeff. Associated Press, "Southern artist puts spotlight on shacks",
Ashland, KY Independent, April 23, 1995
Donn, Jeff. Associated Press, "Artist sees beauty in the shacks of
the rural South", Philadelphia Inquirer, Thursday, May, 11, 1995
Friedmand, Diana. "Spiritual Structures", Metropolis Magazine,
July/August, 1995, Delaware.
Fox, Catherine, Home is where the heart is for artists fond of South",
The Atlanta Journal/Constitution, Friday, May, 5, 1995
Fox, Marilyn. "The Shack as Art", Reading Eagle/Reading Times,
Saturday, November 4, 1995, B5.
Gabriel, Larry. "Houses for the Soul", The State, Columbia, SC,
July 23, 1995, Section F, p 2,3.
Greenville Community News, Hockessin, DE, "Delaware Art Museum features
`shackworks' of Beverly Buchanan", May 9, 1995,
James, Curtia. "3 Works of Art", Essence Magazine, p 96, January
1995, Vol. 25 No. 9.,
The Kennett Paper, Kennett Square, PA, "Works on shacks", May,
4, 1995.
Mitchell, Phoebe, "Building on the year's `bits and pieces'",
Daily hampshire Gazette, Northhampton, MA, Wednesday, June 14, 1995 p 14.
Myers, Susan. "ShackWorks, at Delaware Art Museum celebrates courage",
The Kennett Paper, Kennett Square, PA, June 15-21, 1995, p B6.
Mullinax, Gary. "Tumbledown monuments to human strenths", Sunday
News Journal, Wilminton, DE, Sunday, May 14, 1995, J1,J4.
News Journal, Wilmington, DE, "Shack sweet shack", Thursday, June
8, 1995.
Postell, Robin. "'House and Home' captures the spirit of the South,"
Athens Daily News & Athens Banner Herald, On the Town/Visual Arts, Friday,
March 31, 1995
The Sciences, March/April, 1995, Vol. 35, No. 2, (image of Three Families:
A Memorial Piece with Scars accompanied article by Larry McKee, "The
Earth is Their Witness", p. 36
Sozanski, Edward J. "Showing how a shack can be a work of art",
Philadelphia Inquirer, June 2, 1995
Stewart, Marilyn. "Beverly Buchanan: Symbols of Community", SchoolArts,
Vol. 94, No. 9, May/June, 1995
Stewart, Marilyn. "Collaboration in Art Criticism: Exploring a Body
of Work", SchoolArts, Vol. 94, No. 9, May/June, 1995
Toman, Phil. "Limitless subjects of art: Shack works at DAM",
Newark Post, Newark, DE, June, 9, 1995
Toman, Phil. "The Arts", Greenville News, DE, June 6, 1995 pg
18
1994 Art in America, "NEA Fellowships for Artists, 1994", Vol.
82, No. 12, December, 1994.
Anderson, Leslie. "New world for arts that seek funding," Boston
Sunday Globe,
Sunday, June 5, 1994
Barrett, Terry. "Principles for Interpreting", Journal for Art
Education, September, 1994
Colmore, Perry. "Houses aren't just places to lie down in," The
Townsman, April 28, 1994
Frazier-Booth, Kimberly. "'Shack attack' comes to Phillips art gallery,"
The Bay State Banner, Thursday, June 23, 1994
Gabriel, Larry. "Shacks' Inner Beauty", Detroit Free Press, Wednesday,
August 17, 1994
Hartley, Darren. "Pondering Home Where the Ceiling Reads `Heart of
Dixie'", Chelsea Clinton News, Arts & Entertainment, December 1-7,
1994, Vol LV, Issue 48, NY
Hudson, Tom. "Artist Lifts Southern Shacks Out of the Mud, to Level
of Art", Georgia Journal, Spring 1994, Vol 14, No. 1
Kocaurek, Lisa. "Honoring Home Places", Ms. Magazine, Jan/Feb
1994, Vol. IV, No. 4
Murphy, Anthony C. "Portfolio: Beverly Buchanan", American Visions,
August/September, 1994, Vol. 9., No. 4
Museum News, Calendar., May/June 1994, with photo
Smith, M. Brenda. "Art inspires teens' creations," The Eagle Tribune,
Life & Style, Tuesday, June 28, 1994
Stapen, Nancy. "Four Addison Exhibits Offer Rich Array", The Boston
Sunday Globe, June 19, 1994 (review and photo)
Watkins, Eileen. "Art" The Star - Ledger, New Jersey, Friday,
Arpil 29, 1994
Watkins, Eileen, "Images of Houses Find Happy Home in Summit Exhibition",
The Sunday Star Ledger, May 22, 1994
Wright, Patricia. "Exhibits elevate mind and spirit," Daily Hampshire
Gazette, Arts, Thursday, July 14, 1994
Young, Chris. "Gallery visit stirs children to paint," The Eagle
Tribune, Monday, June 20, 1994
Zimmer, William. "Sculpture of Shacks Make Up a Small Village",
The New York Times, New Jersey Section, Sunday, May 1, 1994
Zimmer, William. "Contemporary Black Artists on View at Krasdale Gallery",
The New York Times, Sunday, September 11, 1994
1993 Berry, Eva Scott. "Art exhibit examines images of family",
Second Edition, Milwaukee, WI., Monday, March 29, 1993. (review)
Hankin, Gwedolyn Diaz. "The Black Family: Exploring a Visual Theme;
Black artists document Images from the Black community", MCJ Weekend,
May 28 (review)
Hudson, Tom. "Celebrating Shack Dwellers", Athens Magazine, October
1993, Vol. 5, No. 4.
Henry, Derrick. "Piano Music by African-American Composers", The
Atlanta Journal/The Atlanta Constitution, Saturday, February 6, (album review,
cover art by Beverly Buchanan)
Parks, Cynthia. "Multicultural Exhibit Shows Colorful Country's Stripes",
The Florida Times-Union, Jacksonville, FL, Friday, January 22 (review)
Sawyer, Donna Drew, Editor. "Accessions", The Chrysler Museum
Bulletin, Winter, Vol. 23, No. 1.
Weeks, Ted., "Lithographs and Americana", Folio Weekly, February
9, 1993, No. 26
1992 Annas, Teresa. "Shacks:Poor Dwellings Rich In Lore", The
Virginian -Pilot, Sec. B, Tuesday, September 15
Haller, Emanuel. "Artist Strives For Humanity and Familiarity",
New Jersey Courier News, June (review)
Hudson, Tom. "Area Artists featured in Madison," The Athens Observer,
Jan. 16, Athens, Georgia (review)
Kangas, Matthew. "Common Ground Separate Choices", Art in America,
March, Vol. 80, No. 3
McGreevy, Linda. "Story Shacks", Port Folio Magazine, #19, September
15
McGreevy, Linda. "Beverly Buchanan", Art Papers, Nov - Dec.
Nelson, Todd. "Moving House, Staying Home", The Home Forum Page,
The Christian Science Monitor, Friday, July 3 (reproduction)
Rand-Hudson, Carol. "Shows Present Contrasts Concerning Ideas on Home",
The Virginian-Pilot and The Ledger Star, Sunday, August 9 (review)
1991 "African-American Portraits," Art&Man Magazine, Published
by Scholastic under the direction of The National Gallery of Art, Nov.,
Vol. 22, No.2
Barnes, M.A.."Friends of Garden..." Athens Daily News/Athens Banner-Herald,
October 20, page 5c
Beem, Edgar Allen. "One Tree, Many Roots," Maine Times, February
8
Brenson, Michael., "Beverly Buchanan: Evocations of Poor Black Southern
Life", New York Times, Friday, Art in Review, May 24
Fox, Catherine. "Art of Our Time", The Atlanta Journal and Constitution,
Sunday, July 14
Howell, Annie. "Collected Notes on Life in the West," Alaska Airlines
Magazine, March
Lloyd. " 'Other Voices' Speak Forcefully," The Maine Sunday Telegram,
February 10
Parks, Cynthia. "Black Artists Speak Out," The Florida Times Union,
Sunday, March 17
Raynor, Vivien. "Reflections of What the World has Come To," The
New York Times, Sunday, February 3
Robinson, Joyce Henry. "Next Generation: Southern Black Aesthetic",
New Art Examiner, December
Schor, Mira."You Can't Leave Home Without It", Artforum, October
, 1991, Vol XXX No. 2, p 114-119
Tallman, Susan. "Beverly Buchanan at Bernice Steinbaum", Art in
America, October, (review)
Watkins, Eileen. "Outspoken Artists Find Outlet in Creative Displays
at Aljira," The Sunday Star-Ledger, February 17
1990 Bloomfield, Anna M. "New History...", ArtPapers (Atlanta),
(review) Nov.,Dec., 1990
Braff, Phyllis. "Sculptor's Drawings Produce a Special Dynamic,"
The New York Times, (review) Sunday, November 4
Brenson, Michael. "Taking on the World From 125th Street," The
New York Times, (review) Sunday, Sept. 23, p35H
Brenson, Michael. "Is Quality an Idea Whose Time Has Gone?," The
New York Times, (review), Sunday, July 22, 1990
Brenson, Michael. "Exhibition of Black Artists Has a Sense of Mission,
Urgency," The Sunday Star-News, (review) , Sunday, July 1, 1990
Brenson, Michael. "Southern Art With a Sense of Mission," The
New York Times, Sunday, June 3, 1990
"Contemporary Southern Exhibit Opens Today," Sunday Montgomery
Advertiser, November 4
Davis, Tatia M. Winston-Salem Chronicle (review) , July 12,1990
Fox, Catherine. "Form, Materials, Unite 'New History' Exhibition,"
The Atlanta Journal and Constitution , (review), Friday, August 10,1990
Fox, Catherine. "Homage in the Shape of a Shack," The Atlanta
Journal and Constitution, (review), Sunday, July 22, 1990
Fox, Catherine. "Individuality Resonates in 'Black Aesthetic',"
The Atlanta Journal/The Atlanta Constitution,, Sunday, May 13,1990
Kimmelman, Michael. "The Voice of Conviction Stirred By the 80's,"
The New York Times (review) , Sunday, May 27, 1990
Hines, Kim. "Diversity of Vision at Warm Gallery," Art Papers,
(review) Vol 10, No 3, p18
Patterson, Tom. The Winston-Salem Journal (review) , May 12, 1990
Richard Maschal. The Charlotte Observer, (review), May 20,1990
Riddle, Mason. "Diversity of Vision Offers Often-Overlooked Artists,"
The Star Tribune, (review), Wednesday, September 12
"Shack Show, Former Macon Artist finds Richness in Houses of Poverty,"
Macon Telegraph and News, Friday, Sept. 7, p1D
Slesin, Suzanne The Shack as Art and Social Comment," New York Times,(Interview
and review) , Jan. 18, 1990
1990 Slivka, Rose C.S. "From The Studio," The East Hampton Star,
November 15
The Art Journal: North Carolina's Arts Monthly, vol.15 #9,June, 1990
Thyrza Jacocks. Pelican Press, April 5, 1990
"Visual Arts," New North Artscape, (review) October-November
1989 Metropolitan Home, November, 1989
Williams,___ B. "Black Artists: An Uphill Struggle", The Macon
Telegraph and The Macon News, Thursday, Novembr 29, 1979, 1B
1972-1988
ArtPapers, July/August, 1988, cover
ARTnews, Sept., 1986, p. 11.
Women Artists News, Sept., 1986, pp. 19,36.
Meyer,Jon.ArtPapers, May/June, 1986, (review),, p. 28.
Phagan, Patricia. ArtPapers, Jan./Feb., 1984, (interview), pp. 16-17. illus
ARTnews, Nov. 1982, "The Artists' Artists", by Grace Glueck.
Art In America, Summer, 1981,Review by Ellen Lubell, pp. 130-131.
The Village Voice, "Voice Choices", Oct. 9, 1978
"Hide a Sculpture", Browns Guide to Georgia, June 1982, Vol 10.
No. 6,
The Village Voice, Sept., 1980, by Carrie Rickey, p. 75.
Perkins, Charlotte Moore. "Profiles: Beverly Buchanan", Art Voices
South, November/December 1979, Vol. 2, No. 6.
Heresies, Vol. III, no. 4,(Third World Women), p. 48, illus.
Arts Magazine, Dec., 1978, (review)
Art Journal, Spring, 1973, p. 274.
The New York Times, "Modern Art in Montclair", by David Shirey,
May, 1976.
The Feminist Art Journal, Spring, 1973.
ARTnews, Summer, 1972, p. 60.
SELECTED VIDEOTAPES\AUDIO TAPES
1996 Beverly Buchanan:Works in Progress,The Annenberg/CPB Project, 1996,
for A World of Art, Henry Sayre, and Oregon Public Broadcasting
1995 Artist's Signpost, for the Creative Discovery Museum, Chattanooga,
TN, Rusty Russel Projections.
1992 African American Art, Past and Present, Reading and O'Reilly, Wilton,
CT
1990 Beverly Buchanan, "Cross Road, Hosted by Delores Brandon",
Nation Public Radio, First aired in February
SELECTED CALENDARS AND POSTERS AND MISCELLANEOUS REPRODUCTIONS
1997 Diverse Perseptions, from the AT&T Art Collection, ready to mail
postcards, The AT&T Learning Center, Basking Ridge, NJ, 1997 (Orangeburg
County, 1995)
1996 Crayola Dream-Makers Teacher Guide, 7th edition, (reproduction of The
Green House, 1989) educational - 1996.
1995 Poster (Monroe County with Yellow Datura, 1994) for the 1995 NAEA conference,
TX, and SchoolArts Magazine, Davis Publications.
1994 In Praise of Women Artists 1994 Calendar, wall calendar, Cedco Publishing,
San Rafael, CA c1993
Women Artists 1994 Date Book, Cedco Publishing, San Rafael, CA c1993
1993 Contemporary Women Artists 1993 Calendar, wall calendar, Abbeville
Press Inc., NY c1992
Women Artists 1993 Datebook, Cedco Publishing, San Rafael, CA, c1992
Colgate-Palmolive Presents Visions of 1993, wall calendar, Colgate-Palmolive
Company
1992 NATALIE HINDERAS: Piano Music by African American Composers, Compact
Disc, (Cover image Bettis Academy, by Beverly Buchanan)
A Celebration of Women Artists, Golden Turtle Press, c1991, Richmond, CA
Contemporary Women Artists 1992 Datebook, Cedco Publishing, San Rafael,
CA
1991 Artist of the Year, Poster, U.S. Information Agency