1983

Sondra Perry, OPEN ROADS with You Can Try It but I See You Comin' Hoe., April 20, 2023 Barbershop chair, plasticine, aluminum, incense, motor and reflective plexiglass corner dome 88.90 × 66.04 × 58.42 cm

scott burton furniture landscape

Beverly Buchanan’s Ruins and Rituals, installed in Macon, Georgia, 1979; 28 x 41.75 inches; collection of the Nevada Museum of Art, The Altered Landscape, Carol Franc Buck Collection.

Mounds of concrete are covered in a protective layer of ‘tabby’, a mixture of lime, sand, oyster shells, water and ash traditionally used by African Americans throughout the American South to construct shelters and grave stones. Acknowledging the vulnerability that is intrinsic to the earth, nature, and our bodies, these mounds were always intended to be lost to erosion. Buchanan was interested in the continual process of ruination – of culture, landscape, traditions and things – that harnessed the transformative powers of destruction. She embraced the idea that her mounds would live on in other forms, morphed by the ebb and flow of time, the tide, and human history. Unlike most memorials that speak of conviction, longevity, permanence (lest we forget), Marsh Ruins is an ode to ephemerality, vulnerability, and ghostly, immaterial, love.

Beverly Buchanan (American, 1940–2015). Beverly Buchanan’s Essential Lunch, n.d. Marker and pen on paper Private collection #ruinsandrituals

Vetements Spring 2026 Ready-To-Wear

Sonic bed by Kaffe Mathews

Ariana Papademetropoulos (Greek-American, 1990) - Jupiter and Io (2026)

Louise Bourgeois, Memling Dawn, 1951

Metal, hinges, wheels

Working Big by John Lidstone/Clarence Burch. Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1975.