With a background in microbiology and an interest in architecture, Kendall Buster creates sculptures that reference both built environments and the structures of the organic world. Ideas of interiority, systems of growth, permeable and impermeable boundaries and parasitism operate both structurally and metaphorically in her pieces, which are often scaled to emphasize a bodily interaction with the viewer, becoming elements of architecture or landscape.
Buster's work has been exhibited in numerous venues including the Hirshhorn Museum, Artist's Space, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Bahnhof Westend, Berlin and the KZNSA Gallery, Durban, South Africa. Her works have been commissioned by the DC Convention Center and Wilmer Cutler Hale in Washington, DC, Markel Corporation and Massey Cancer Center in Richmond, VA, the Science Center at The Episcopal School in Alexandria, VA, the Bank of Oklahoma Arena in Tulsa, as well as a roof-top sculpture at the Nevada Museum of Art in Reno.
Buster also recently completed a sculpture commission for The Agave Branch Library in Phoenix, AZ. Upcoming projects include commissions for the New Chemistry Building at Princeton University, Gilman Hall at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, and the San Francisco International Airport.
When: April 13, 2010, 12:30pm
Where: Riley Seminar Room, MFA
Image: Kendal Buster, New Growth, 2007. Shadecloth, steel. Courtesy of the artist.
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