Featured Artist
ANTHONY BUCZKO
www.anthonybuczko.com

Today we live is a fragmented world of small spaces. Whether it is the office, our cars, our homes or apartments, we rarely experience wide-open spaces. Even our mental spaces are crowded. In my work, I make space for people.  I try to create the feeling of expansiveness. My intention is to make space emotionally inviting, giving people a feeling of inner sanctuary.

For me, color is my primary method of achieving an emotional response in the viewer. In these paintings the color field is the ground on which I create the space. I use images of streams of light, as well as the luminosity achieved through the tension that results from multiple tones of color, to create an illuminated color field.

The objects that appear in the space add the element of asymmetry to create the feeling of time and movement as opposed to the stillness associated with perfect symmetry. The harmonious, balanced, and yet dynamic space gently moves the viewer towards the ideal of serenity.

Anthony Buczko has been making art for over 35 years. Buczko studied painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, received his BFA in the philosophy of aesthetics from The University of the Arts (formerly the Philadelphia College of Art) and earned his M.F.A. at the University of Pennsylvania. Buczko has shared his insights with art students as a visiting critic at Brooklyn College.

Anthony Buczko has shown his paintings in numerous shows including the Manif International in South Korea and the Parrish Art Museum in Southampton, Long Island. He works at the Guggenheim Museum and lives with his wife in Queens, New York.