Kavin Buck received his MFA at the California Institute of the Arts (Valencia, CA) and his BFA from the Otis College of Art and Design (Los Angeles, CA). He attended the American University/Parsons School of Design in Paris (France) and completed post-graduate studies with the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program (New York, NY). In 1990-91 he was a member of the PS1/MoMA National and International Studio Program. Buck’s artwork is represented by the Elizabeth Leach Gallery in Portland, Oregon and has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including shows at Laguna Art Museum (Laguna Beach, CA), La Estacion Arte Contemporaneo (Chihuahua, MX), Los Angeles Contemporary Gallery (catalog with an essay by Ed Schad), University of Virginia Art Museum (Charlottesville, VA), Ruth Bachofner Gallery (Santa Monica, CA), The Drawing Center (New York, NY), and the PS1 museum. His art practice includes paintings ranging in size from intimate to large-scale works on canvas, paper, and recently addition of watercolors. Buck’s bold works oscillate between realism and abstraction with a deliberate, hand-hewn energy. They point to spaces real and imagined by use of concentrated hues, distinctive brushwork, and dramatic mark-making; signature distinctions of Buck's flourishing oeuvre. Their intricacies reward close study by way of brush striations which describe the gravity that divides land and sky and the compressed space within a vaguely familiar landscape. The works recall the romantic vistas and create an enveloping field the viewer can disappear into. Buck’s work is in many corporate and public collections including the Four Seasons Hotel, Canopy Hotels by Hilton, US Bank, City of Portland, Earthbound Media Group, and Purple Hands Vineyards, as well as many private collections throughout the United States.