Malcolm Bucknall: The Other Thing Is
10 April - 17 May · 2008

Opening reception Thursday, April 10th, 6-8
Gallery Talk - Saturday, April 19th, 1pm

d berman gallery, half art gallery and half squirrel, presents The Other Thing Is, an exhibit of drawings and paintings by Malcolm Bucknall.

“I am interested in themes of innocence and wonder, hope and vulnerability. Through precise renditions of ancestors, progeny, and enchantments that never were, I ask the viewer to ‘Remember when?’ and to join in ‘Let’s pretend.’ I look to delineate states of being and states of mind common to us all. There are narratives, recollections of goofy love, goosebumpy alarm, and magicked projections into other places and other bodies.” – Malcolm Bucknall

Born in Twickenham, England, in 1935, Bucknall’s early interest in art led him at 18 to India and Santiniketan, the Ashram of Rabindranath Tagore, then to Chelsea Art School, London, the University of Texas (BFA), and the University of Washington (MFA). This rolling stone foundation settled into a fixed career as a professional artist that has continued since 1963. He has exhibited throughout the United States, and lives and works in Austin, Texas.

A chameleon-like eclecticism has characterized his work to various distinct periods of art-historical (and non-art-historical) influences, but the common thread in Bucknall’s “re-visionist” imagery is an animal-human mix. As in myth and fairytale, this give a child-like directness that promotes a more direct link to fears, love, emotions, humor and the unconscious.

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The show will be up through May 11