Colleen Buzzard, “Entangled,” January 27-February 28, 2017

Exhibition Catalog, Colleen Buzzard and Scotty Bye

Colleen Buzzard is a multi-media artist whose work stems from an interest in the use of information systems like language and maps to chart that which is seemingly unknowable. “While I work I often wonder what terms like ‘order,’ ‘information,’ and ‘random’ really mean. It is surprising to me that systems are often a wild mix of order and disorder. It turns out that systems that lie closer to the chaos end of a spectrum are usually better able to incorporate diversity and evolve,” says Buzzard. Her linear installations recognize that systems are often a wild mix of order and disorder, and her sculptural drawings “kick” lines off flat planes so that they take on three-dimensional lives. Unencumbered, one line might trace the invisible scaffolds that support the viewer while another moves into space echoing the forces that surround one. Buzzard imagines these hidden networks as tangled skeins in which she works to discover an orderliness that lies just beyond comprehension. Forming grids and scribbles, the intersecting lines construct nets that may yet catch something worth examining.

Colleen Buzzard currently works in her downtown Rochester studio where she also presents the work of other artists. She began her studio practice in Portland, Oregon at Reed College followed by fourteen years, of exhibiting at the Whitechapel Gallery in London and other UK venues. Since returning to the US in 1999, she has created diverse solo and collaborative installations. In 2015, the Mercer Gallery in Rochester hosted a solo show of Buzzard’s work called Frames of Mind. Her work has been shown in Hungary, Toronto, and London and is included in collections in the UK, Hungary, Germany, and the USA.

To find out more about this artist visit: http://www.colleenbuzzard.com/index.htm