Kendall Buster - Exhibitions

Introduction

Long fascinated by the way in which architectural structures embrace, contain, shelter, and frame the individuals who inhabit them, Kendall Buster builds sculptures that operate both as scale models for imaginary buildings and as sites of enclosure. Buster’s initial study in microbiology and interest in the history of architecture have resulted in works informed at once by details of buildings both real and imagined and by biological morphologies. Buster is equally inspired by the monumental and microscopic.

This exhibition is curated by Executive Director & Curator Jaynelle Hazard and is the third of a series of three exhibitions marking the 50th anniversary of Tephra ICA. The exhibition highlights this important milestone in the institution’s history by examining themes of future and innovation.

Kendall Buster - Exhibitions - Tephra ICA

Image courtesy of Kendall Buster

Kendall Buster earned a BFA degree from the Corcoran College of Art and Design in Washington DC and an MFA in Sculpture from Yale University as well as participating in the Whitney Museum’s Independent Study Studio Program in New York City.

Her work has been exhibited in numerous venues nationally and internationally including the Hirshhorn Museum and the Kreeger Museum in Washington, DC, Artist’s Space and the American Academy of Arts and Letters in New York City, the Haggerty Museum in Milwaukee, the Kemper Museum in Kansas City, the Boise Art Museum in Boise, Idaho, Suyama Space in Seattle, Washington, the Bahnhof Westend in Berlin, and the KZNSA Gallery in Durban, South Africa.

Buster has been interviewed by Neda Ulaby on NPR’s Morning Edition as part of a series on art and science and was the recipient of a 2005 American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in the Arts. She currently lives and works in Richmond, Virginia and is a Professor in the Department of Sculpture and Extended Media at Virginia Commonwealth University.

Image courtesy of Kendall Buster