Buddy Bunting - the fine art of suffocating in the heat
Jen Graves, from a review titled, Making Art While Nervous: Buddy Bunting's Plein Air Prisons:
Buddy Bunting stakes out prisons. He parks by the sides of their roads to sketch, photograph, and videotape them in a hurry, before he gets caught.(Her review here, with images.)
Nobody is supposed to look too closely at a prison. Bunting does it in part because prisons are what he knows. Growing up in a Maryland area where a prison moved in and provided plenty of jobs, Bunting's regular friends were prison guards as well as prisoners. He knows the in and the out, so he stands at the border and makes art.
Most of the drawings in the current show derive from the Southwest. Solid objects are dematerializing in the heat and so are ideas, such as justice and a workable economy.
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Considering how large a role prisons play in the U.S., they rarely make an appearance in art.
Bunting's not the only artist in Seattle with a bead on them. Mike Simi was raised in a small Michigan town near near a large one. His dad, his uncle and his brother are prison guards. He happened to go to high school with nine of the 40 registered sex offenders in his area. No one in his family finds that fact remarkable.
Below, Simi's from series of throw pillows titled, Sex Offenders From My Home Town, ongoing.
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