Capital City Arts Initiative—Callosum

LB Buchan, Transverse, Maple, 17″ x 19″ x 7″, 2020

The Capital City Arts Initiative presents its exhibition, Callosum, by LB Buchan at the CCAI Courthouse Gallery. The exhibition will be in the gallery from July 9 – October 21, 2021. The Courthouse is located at 885 E Musser Street, Carson City. The gallery is open Monday – Friday, 8 am – 5 pm. CCAI will host a reception for the artist on Friday, July 9, 5 – 6:30 pm; LB will talk about the sculptures during the reception at 5:30 pm.

LB Buchan describes the work: “Many of my show and sculpture titles are often derived from scientific names of the things I’m currently exploring. Callosum comes from corpus callosum, which is a large nerve tract connecting the right and left hemispheres of the brain, and allows communication between the two hemispheres. In Latin, it means ‘tough body’. To give you some context/background, this body of work based on anatomy is specifically about the manifestation of post-traumatic stress in the body. The same things seem to appear over and over- primarily lungs, diaphragm, and abdominal anatomy. This isn’t consciously intentional – it is just how I work, whatever comes out is what comes out, but breath and breathing do seem to be a central focal point. Most of the pieces have a strong botanical or sea life flair to them, especially some of the larger ones I’m working on.”

This program is supported by Nevada Humanities. Learn more