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Kavin Buck (born 1963) United States, is an artist and arts educator whose paintings and sculptures have a wide-ranging relationship to historical moments of modern and contemporary art. He has exhibited nationally and is represented by the Elizabeth Leach Gallery. Kavin has worked in the contemporary gallery scene in New York as well as Los Angeles and was the founder of the South LaBrea Gallery in Inglewood, California. He has worked as a teacher and administrator at numerous schools, colleges, and universities.

My artworks are drawn from reflections upon nature, they are neither openly landscapes, nor still-lives, nor abstractions, but are static moments in nature from memory that layer the themes of the passage of time, remembrance, and hope. The paintings are fill tension and bursting in a seasonal range of vivid colors that submerse the audience into an environment that stimulates both mental meanderings as well as personal reflection. Using a unique application process, the black and white drawings/paintings in charcoal, graphite, and gesso act as a moment of suspension that explores the more detailed elements of the paintings. These drawings are not studies for the paintings, but substantial individual works that form introspective punctuation to the paintings balancing weight, texture, and material, as well as lightness through the fluidity of the marks. These works have a historical relationship to modern and contemporary artists that have focused on black and white within their careers.