Discipline: Visual Art – painting

Ken Buhler

Discipline: Visual Art – painting
Region: Brooklyn, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1983, 2004
More: www.kenbuhler.net
Ken Buhler is an American painter and visual artist. His paintings, drawings, and prints blend abstraction and recognizable imagery — often drawn from botanical or decorative forms — to explore the "terra incognita" of the natural world. Working with washes of bold color, meandering lines, stencils, and rubber stamps, Buhler creates images that feel at once new and familiar, revealing a world both luminous and layered. In recent years he has worked on print projects with Jungle Press of Brooklyn, VanDeb Editions of NYC, and Oehme Graphics of Steamboat Springs, CO. His solo exhibitions include shows at Lesley Heller Gallery, O'Hara Gallery, Michael Walls Gallery, and the Beach Museum of Art in Kansas. His work is a part of many public and private collections, including the Wichita Museum of Fine Art, the de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University, the Maslow Collection, IBM, and the Ulrich Museum of Fine Arts in Wichita, KS. Buhler has been awarded numerous grants and fellowships from noted institutions including the Pollock-Krasner Foundation (1987, 2009), the New York Foundation for the Arts (1994, 2009), a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts in painting in 1987, as well as two MacDowell Fellowships. Buhler is an artist in residence in the Studio Arts Program at Bard College, where he has taught since 2000. He lives and works in Brooklyn and in Masonville, NY

Studios

Eastman

Ken Buhler worked in the Eastman studio.

Thanks to the generous support of MacDowell Fellow and board member Louise Eastman, this century-old farm building was reinvented as a modern, energy efficient live and workspace for visual artists. Originally built in 1915 to house a forge and provide storage when the residency program was expanding, this small barn was simply converted for…

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