BUCHANAN, Beverly
Hope This Helps You Survive Your Gallery Visit

Don’t try to dress like an artist at openings at galleries. They know who they are.
(I borrow someone’s diamonds, not jeans.)

Beverly Buchanan is best known for her later work, her sculptures of shacks, her architectural fragmentations. But she always kept a practice deeply producing various forms of printed matter. Personal notebooks, journals, scrapbooks, artist statements, clippings, photographic materials, illustrations, business cards and various zines, all were integral in her multi-layered oeuvre and are essential in understanding how she navigated between the various elements of impermanence, control, and the monumental. They also show how she used wit and fragility as a method or even a force of emotion. [publishers’ note]

This is a facsimile reprint of an undated zine by Beverly Buchanan, published on the occasion of the touring 2025–27 exhibition Beverly Buchanan: Weathering, a collaboration between Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, Frac Lorraine, Metz, and Spike Island, Bristol. Check this other one!

Published by Bierke Verlag, 2025
Artists' Writings / Facsimile & Reprints / Zines