The art of Beverly Buchanan clearly shows her “fascination with buildings and ruins, and with life and its positive aspects”.  Born in South Carolina, Buchanan traveled as a child with her agricultural scientist father throughout the state.  She experienced firsthand the people and dwellings of the deep South, particularly the homes of the very poor.   These shacks were traditionally hand-built out of whatever materials were available, from cast-off materials to sticks and twigs. 

Buchanan’s work over the last two decades celebrates the shacks of poor farmers and their families in sculpture, oil pastels, and photography.  Her large, colorful oil pastels depict not only vernacular homes, but often the inhabitants of these homes as well.  Her sculptural shacks are built of the same materials as those found along the back roads of rural South Carolina: bits of wood, metal, and tar paper.  Each sculptural shack is based upon a real-life prototype.

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