Miggy Buck’s goal is to create work that stimulates interpersonal communication, curiosity, and humor. She likes to play with the viewer’s preconceived notions on ordinary topics, such as architecture, nature, popular culture and identity. In addition to using a vocabulary everybody can relate to, she uses beauty to increase the public appeal of her work.
She is drawn to the variety of characters who walk the streets in New York and values her daily encounters with the diverse cross section of people of all ages, races, and economic classifications that make up the urban environment. This experience has provided her the unique opportunity to study the body’s physical and metaphysical characteristics on a daily basis. Within this variety, she finds it particularly fascinating to explore the commonalities that make us human.
The majority of Buck’s pieces are displayed outside, readily available to passersby. She prefers to work with common building materials such as cement, steel, wood, and plaster to sculpt the refined forms that contribute to her installations.
By combining traditional sculpture, popular culture, and human nature, Buck says her work engages the viewer through the comfort of the familiar, then challenges them with the unexpected.
