What Beverly Buchanan’s ‘Shacks’ Tell Us about the Black South
At Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York, the late artist’s drawings and sculptures celebrate the spirit and history of southern Black communities
Later in her artistic life, Beverly Buchanan turned her attention to making a series of diminutive, makeshift sculptures known as ‘shacks’. For this compact but comprehensive exhibition, ‘Beverly Buchanan: Shacks and Legends 1985–2011’, at Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York, curator Aurélie Bernard Wortsman homes in on the artist’s almost-anthropological pursuit of self-built residences and the rural African Americans who lived in them across the southern US.