Julius', 2019. Foamcore, glue, modeling paste, pins, paper, sculpey and acrylic paint, 29 1/4 x 16 1/2 x 6 inches (74.3 x 41.9 x 15.2 cm)
Cerne Abbas Giant 420, 2019. Acrylic on pine panel, 12 x 5 3/4 x 3/4 inches (30.5 x 14.6 x 1.9 cm)
Catherine Opie 420, 2019. Acrylic on pine panel, 12 x 5 3/4 x 3/4 inches (30.5 x 14.6 x 1.9 cm)
Correction, 2019. Acrylic, gouache, and carbon transfer on Bristol paper, 15 5/8 x 11 1/8 inches (39.7 x 28.2 cm)
Breaking Ground, 2018. Pilot G2 pen, acrylic paint, carbon transfer on Bristol, 7 7/8 x 12 1/4 inches (20 x 31.1 cm)
Nicholas Buffon (b. 1987, Seattle, WA) is a painter and sculptor who lives and works in New York. He attended the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, MA (BFA, 2008), and the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College, in Annandale-on-Hudson, NY (MFA, 2011). Recent solo exhibitions include Callicoon Fine Arts (2016, 2014) and Freddy, Baltimore, MD (2014). In 2018, he participated in FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art, Akron Museum of Art, and Spatial Flux: Contemporary Drawings from the JoAnn Gonzalez Hickey Collection, Gregory Allicar Museum of Art at Colorado State University. His work has been included in exhibitions at the Jewish Museum, New York; the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD), Michigan; the Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina; QT Gallery, Chicago; and The Hole, Foxy Production, and Shoot The Lobster, all in New York. His work can be found in public collections including the Rubell Family Collection, Miami; the Kadist Foundation, San Francisco; and the Akron Art Museum, Ohio. In 2019, he had a major solo exhibition at Poets House in New York City.
Nicholas Buffon's painting, Catherine Opie 420 (2019), is included in FAIR, a digital art fair coordinated by the New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA). The work is availalbe for purchase through June 21, 2020.
Nicholas Buffon is included in Horology, curated by Elizabeth Jaeger and Silke Lindner-Sutti, themed around the ubiquitous device to visualize time, the clock.
Join artist Nicholas Buffon for an onsite tour of his exhibition Gay New York: Walt Whitman to the Present. This exhibition of new work from Buffon is a poetic survey of LGBTQ sites where community is built. Traveling among landmarks, venues, and bars—from Zoe Leonard’s High Line poem installation “I want a President” to the deli that once housed Whitman’s favorite bar to the Stonewall Inn—Gay New York pays tribute to LGBTQ contributions to poetry and the arts in NYC and beyond.
Free and open to the public.
In tribute to the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots, Poets House presents Gay New York: Walt Whitman to the Present, Nicholas Buffon’s poetic survey of LGBTQ landmarks, venues, and bars—sculptures and paintings depicting sites where community is built, paying tribute to LGBTQ contributions to poetry and the arts along the way.
In celebration and recognition of the 50th anniversary of Stonewall and World Pride, Stonewall 50 explores the far-reaching art and activism the uprising spawned: the artists and activists whose influence and contributions have been historically overlooked and the history of Pride, which began with the Christopher Street Liberation Day March in 1970 and has expanded city by city into a worldwide phenomenon. The exhibition includes historical and contemporary artwork that traces these histories: photographs of early Gay Pride marches and pioneering activists like Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera; works by contemporary and underrepresented historical artists who reflect on queer experience and visibility; and documentation of the increasingly intersectional focus of contemporary LGBT+ activism.
99 Cents or Less is a group exhibition curated by Jens Hoffmann, including a diverse range of 99 artists making work from items purchased at America’s ubiquitous 99 Cent stores.
Callicoon Fine Arts will participate in the Dallas Art Fair with Ben Berlow, Nicholas Buffon, Glen Fogel, Daniel Gordon, Carol Hepper, Benjamin Kress, Ajay Kurian, Dave Miko, and Simone Shubuck.
