Buy Some Damn Art, the online shop and gallery curated by Kate Singleton, is one of my favorite places to stop in to discover new artists. On a recent visit, I came across the work of Jordan Buschur and was immediately charmed by her paintings of books. I started looking a bit more into the story behind these compositions and loved them even more.
Before this series, Jordan was focusing on figurative painting. In a serendipitous moment, Jordan set a few of her paintings in libraries, and it became clear to her that she wanted to pursue painting books. And after a a stack of books perched in her studio became a painting, things coalesced, and the series developed from there. Jordan composes the stacks which serve as the basis for the paintings. As Jordan describes them, each acts as “a stand in for one person’s accumulated knowledge and memories.” And each series of books often has a deeper meaning—or even small poem—hidden among the words on the covers and spines.
{ Images via Jordan Buschur }