Exhibition: Remains 2025

Bureau is pleased to present a group exhibition featuring Beverly Buchanan, James Castle, Cathy Lebowitz, Liz Magor, Monique Mouton, and Em Rooney. Given the certainty of impermanence, what remains? The artworks in this exhibition could be seen as material mementos of inevitable transience. Through varying procedures, the pictures and objects here display the erosion and wear of time, and of fading memory. Origins and spirits linger like relics, evoking specific histories and locales. For some, gesture and mark-making is abrupt, frenzied, and ephemeral—like enunciative acts of opening and closure. We see a deposed corpse of a bird, irregular polyhedrons, a gust of paint, a procession of trees and passing road signs, handmade wooden shacks, long swept away. Temporary shelters are evoked by irregular planks of wood, the soft sides of well-worn cardboard, and the repurposed objects of home. There is something not-quite-perfect or “resolved” in each of them. And, something brightly fleeting about their shared terrain. 

Beverly Buchanan (b. 1940, Fuquay, NC; d. 2015, Ann Arbor, MI) received a MS (1968) and MPH (1969) from Columbia University, New York, NY. Recent solo and retrospective exhibitions include Beverly Buchanan: I Broke the House, ETH Zurich, Switzerland (2024); Beverly Buchanan: Shacks and Legends, 1985 - 2011, Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York, NY (2021); Beverly Buchanan: Habitat For Humanity, Paul R. Jones Museum, Tuscaloosa, AL (2019); Beverly Buchanan: Ruins and Rituals, 1976 - 2013, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY (2016). In 2011 Buchanan received the Women’s Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award. Her work is in the collections of The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; and Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; among others.

James Castle (b. 1899, Garden Valley, ID; d. 1977, Boise, ID) was born deaf and believed never to have learned how to read, write, or sign. Castle is well known for his drawings, books, and constructions. He has been the subject of a number of solo retrospectives and exhibitions including James Castle: The Experience of Every Day, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis (2016); Untitled: The Art of James Castle, Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Washington DC (2016); and James Castle, Show and Store, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid (2011). His work is in the collections of Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago; Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus; Museum of American Folk Art, New York; National Gallery of Art, Washington DC; and The New York Public Library, NY; among others. 

Cathy Lebowitz (b. 1965, Philadelphia, PA; lives and works in New York, NY) received a BA from Smith College, Northampton, MA (1987); attended the New York Studio School, New York,  NY (1989-1992); and received an MFA in Creative Writing from The New School, New York, NY (2011). Solo exhibitions include Dark Skies, Rocks, Skoto Gallery, New York, NY (2024), When I Was a Bird, Skoto Gallery, New York, NY (2021). Group exhibitions include Fairy Tales and Illusions, Skoto Gallery, New York, NY (2024); and Thirty Years, Skoto Gallery, New York, NY (2022). Lebowitz held an editorial position at Art in America from 1987 to 2017. 

Liz Magor (b. 1948, Winnipeg, Manitoba; lives and works in Vancouver, British Columbia) studied at University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia (1966 - 68); Parsons School of Design, New York, NY (1968 - 70); and Vancouver School of Art, Vancouver, British Columbia (1970 - 71). Recent solo exhibitions include The Rise and The Fall, Fondazione Giuliani, Rome, Italy (2023); The Separation, MOCA, Toronto, Ontario (2023); I Have Wasted My Life, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, NY (2021); Downer, Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia (2021); Liz Magor: BLOWOUT, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Cambridge, MA (2019); Xhilaration, Marcelle Alix, Paris, France (2019); and you, you, you, Musée d’Art modern et d’Art Contemporain, Nice, France (2017). Her work is in the public collections of the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario; Lafayette Collection, Paris, France; Migros Museum of Contemporary Art, Zurich, Switzerland; Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Québec; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario; Pinault Collection, Venice, Italy; among others. 

Monique Mouton (b. 1984, Fort Collins, CO; lives and works in New York, NY)  received a BFA from Emily Carr Institute, Vancouver, British Columbia (2006); and received an MFA from Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY (2014). Solo and two-person exhibitions include a vista, Monique Mouton & Covey Gong, Bel Ami, Los Angeles, CA (2024); Art Basel Statements, Bridget Donahue, Basel, Switzerland (2024); Destiny Cornucopia, Nancy Lupo & Monique Mouton, VEDA, Florence, Italy (2022); INNER CHAPTERS, Bridget Donahue, New York, NY (2021);  Braid, VEDA, Florence, Italy (2020); Scene, Kayne Griffin Corcoran, Los Angeles, CA (2019); The Theme is Green, Bridget Donahue, New York, NY (2018); More Near, Bridget Donahue, New York, NY (2016). Her work is in the permanent collection of the Davis Museum, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA.

Em Rooney (b. 1983, lives and works between Canaan, CT and New York, NY) received her BA from Hampshire College, Amherst, MA (2005), an MFA from Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA (2011); and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME (2012). Solo exhibitions include Imagined Beauty Begins Now, Derosia, New York, NY (2024); Double Portrait, Paena, Mexico City, Mexico (2023); Entrance of Butterfly, Derosia, New York, NY (2022); Women in Fiction, Francois Ghebaly, Los Angeles, CA (2020); You, Too, Know That You Live, Fons Welters, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2019); Ordinary Time, Bodega (Derosia), New York, NY (2018); The Word for Forest, Bodega (Derosia), New York, NY (2016). Her work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY.

Image: Beverly Buchanan, Double Pen-Near Alabama, 2003, Markers on paper, 15 × 22 ½ in. (38.10 × 57.15 cm). Courtesy of Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York.