Richard van buren artist biography
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Richard Van Buren
American sculptor and painter (born )
Richard Van Buren (born Syracuse, New York, 5 August ) is an American sculptor and painter.
Richard van buren artist biography
He is an artist who, throughout his lifetime, has tested the boundaries of what sculpture should look like. He was quite active in the New York art world in the s and s, and still continues his art-making practices, though he now lives in Maine.[1] His sculptures and works on paper are best summarized by experimentation between the limits of natural/organic and the man-made/inorganic materials; and he often combines the two in combinations that evoke light and contradict our assumptions.
Biography
Van Buren first studied painting at sculpture at San Francisco State University and the National University of Mexico.[2] While still a student, he began exhibiting in galleries who showed works by his contemporaries, Franz Kline, H.C.
Westermann, Ron Nagle, Ed Moses, and Robert Morris. Eventually, he relocated to