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Art
Derek Buckner

When

Jan 10, 2009 – Feb 14, 2009

Tuesdays–Saturdays (10am–6pm)

Where
George Billis Gallery (2716 S La Cienega Blvd, 310.838.3685)
Price
FREE
Details
http://georgebillis.com/galleryLA.html
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In an inspired mashup of childhood comfort, adult-onset ADHD, and modern-art history, Brooklyn-based painter Derek Buckner delivers luminous, refined oil paintings of giant piles of marshmallows. The artist's in-studio Candyland is infused with the bristling, atmospheric light and spatial nuances previously lavished on urban landscapes and architectural structures. Buckner melds pop-art sass with a nostalgic ache and the fog of unhealthy obsession in a series of paintings as odd and tempting as their subjects.

Shana Nys Dambrot