Krista Buecking (born 1982) is a

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Biography

Krista Buecking was born in

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in 1982, and currently lives in

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. From 2002 to 2007, she attended

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, and in 2012 she completed a Master of Fine Arts degree at

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.Krista Buecking Artist Page, Susan Hobbs Gallery, 2013
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Art practice

Krista Buecking's work consists of large-scale

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s, drawings and installations that explore often sentiments of disappointment, disintegration and renewal. ''WE THING'', her most recent solo exhibition, consisted of architectural, sculptural, plant and video components that attempted to illustrate the intangible, abstract system of

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. As Ellyn Walker writes in Magenta Magazine, "WE THING .reiterates our identity as that of

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, rooted in the premise of a lifestyle promised, and formerly believed unattainable" Some of Buecking's earlier work consists of drawings of lyrics from classic American pop songs by artists such as

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and

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, such as ''That's when your heartaches begin'' and ''Are You Lonesome Tonight?'' As Rosemary Heather writes in a 2010 article in

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, " Within American pop songs Buecking has located deeper truths about the culture that produced them. Endless change and a taste for the ephemeral have produced the conditions for a rootless population."Rosemary Heather. Krista Buecking. Canadian Art, Summer 2010
/ref> In her series of drawings from 2007-2008 entitled ''Proposal for Ruins'', Buecking examined various states of disintegration and renewal in a set of modernist buildings that she depicts in ruin. In this series, Buecking selected historical buildings with back stories that connected with the fall-outs from ideological and political impulses of Modernism, such as

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'' and Adalberto Libera's '' Casa Malaparte''.

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