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Brian Buczak

1954–1987

Brian Buczak was born in Detroit in 1954. He received a BFA from Center for Creative Studies. He moved to New York City in 1975 at age 21, to continue painting. Brian's art expanded to include paintings, drawing, writings, publishing, artist's books, collaborations, Fluxus projects, film, performance and more. His work has been exhibited internationally, including New York, Detroit, Canada, Italy, and Iceland. Brian Buczak was only 33 years old when his life was cut short by AIDS. Buzack's longtime partner, Geoffrey Hendricks, asked his friend Philip Glass to help him commemorate Brian's life. Glass wrote “String Quartet No. 4” for Brian.

Untitled (Source)
Untitled (Vase)
Castro
Amended Loving Cup
Untitled (Plants, Energy, Source)
Prophet & Source
Untitled (Red Man, Source, Flame Hand)
Fire
Prisoner/Flame
Untitled
Untitled (Fish Tail, Flames, Tom of Finland)
The Dumb Bunny
Dumb Bunny
Lost
Saved
Untitled (Tiger)
Adjustments
Artificial Respiration
Baby
Corpse (Detail, Panel #3)
Sea Shells
Fountains
Buddha's Tooth
Arterial Blood Glasses
White Blood Cell Count
Hurdles
Alarm
Knock Out (Left Side)
Observing My Hand
Urn
Lotus
Untitled
K.O. II
Male Humor
Prison
The Sacred Fount
Male Painting
Sedgewick Pie
Self Portrait
Untitled (Figure on Blue, Red Symbol, Man with Knife)
Untitled (3 Figures, Crouched Figure, Red Figure)
Artificial Respiration
The Wanderer
Untitled (Hunter, winter waterfalls, summer landscape)
Untitled (Sleeping self portrait)
Untitled (Geoff)
Bent Arms
Untitled (Figure, Sphere, Man with Snakes)
Self portrait with Two Cups
Untitled (3 Figures)
Untitled (Le Dauphin, Torre del Greco, L'Oeil de Boeuf)
Untitled (Lotus, Flame, Flowers)
Untitled (Two Towers & Train Track)
Observatory Time
Untitled (Kodak triptych)
Untitled (Tower, Men in Caps, Symbols)
Corpse
Seance
Mahler and Walther/brushstrokes
Untitled
Mahler and Walther/brushstrokes
Broken Glass
Cambodia Massacre, South African Execution, New Mexico Prison Riot
Triptych Four Fingers
Untitled
Untitled (Globe)
The World
Civilization II
Cuba
Others Will Pick Up Our Arms (Che)
Murder
Masonic Symbols
Flags
Flags
Flags (#1)
Flags (#2)
Flags (#3)
Flags (#3)
Flags (#4)
Hindenburg Disaster and Flags
Mahler and Walther
Untitled (Printed Matter Opening)
Sedgewick Pie
Untitled
Oil tans and Red Head
Lotus and Broken Pipe
Two
Man and Oil Tanks
Yellow Leaves, Dark Sky
Untitled
Axe with Hook
Geoff's Enamel Cup with Sprout
Flight With Falling Figures
Drawing the Universe
Untitled
Phases of the Moon
Self Portrait / Painting the World
Untitled (fireplace screen)
Anarchy / Surrender Window (Printed Matter Storefront)
Anarchy / Surrender Window (Printed Matter Storefront)
Trompe L'Oeil Death
wall/paper
9th Street Survival Show
9th Street Survival Show
9th Street Survival Show
9th Street Survival Show
9th Street Survival Show
Unidentified
Unidentified
Unidentified
Unidentified (masonic signature)
Brian with Black (cat)
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Solo exhibitions include Brian Buczak: Man Looks at the World, Gordon Robichaux and Ortuzar Projects, New York (2024); Brian Buczak: A Memorial Exhibition, Emily Harvey Gallery, New York (1989); Brian Buczak: A Memorial Exhibition, Bound & Unbound, New York (1987); The Search for Accidental Significance, Pitt International Galleries, Vancouver (1987); The Lucy Stories, Printed Matter, New York (1985); VASE, J.N. Herlin, Inc, New York, 1982; and Corpse, Todd’s Copy Shop, New York (1982). Group exhibitions include Democracy: Aids, Group Material at Dia Art Foundation, New York (1988); Wall/Paper: 3 installations in an abandoned building (with Andrea Evans and Brad Melamed), Fashion Moda, New York (1981); The Page as an Alternative Space 1970–1981, Franklin Furnace, New York (1981); 9th St Survival Show, Charas at El Bohio, New York (1981); Sound, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, New York (1979); and Art Book Art, Detroit Institute of Arts (1979).