David Buckingham b. 1958

Works
  • Color Study #155
    Color Study #155, 2025
  • Circle Star
    Circle Star, 2023
  • Chris Burden Rifle
    Chris Burden Rifle, 2011
  • Color Study #109
    Color Study #109, 2018
  • Color Study #124
    Color Study #124, 2018
  • Color Study #127
    Color Study #127, 2018
  • Color Study #147
    Color Study #147, 2019
  • Deano's Motel
    Deano's Motel, 2025
  • Dollar Sign Triptych
    Dollar Sign Triptych, 2022
  • George Carlin's Seven Dirty Words Deconstructed
    George Carlin's Seven Dirty Words Deconstructed, 2021
  • Give Peace A Chance
    Give Peace A Chance, 2022
  • Graff Dollar Sign #2
    Graff Dollar Sign #2, 2022
  • Hey Where The White Women At
    Hey Where The White Women At, 2010
  • Kapow with Stars
    Kapow with Stars, 2018
  • Nobody Likes A Smartass
    Nobody Likes A Smartass, 2019
  • Police Line
    Police Line, 2007
  • Pow!
    Pow!, 2021
  • The Longest Word in the English Language
    The Longest Word in the English Language
  • White Punks on Dope
    White Punks on Dope
Biography

David Buckingham (b. 1958) lives and works in Los Angeles, California, and is a sculptor working exclusively in found metal. All colors are original as found; no works are painted. He roams the high and low deserts of California in search of battered and beaten agriculture equipment, trucks, school buses, looking for metal that has had a previous life, with the scars to prove it, much like himself.

 

Buckingham finds inspiration in American pop culture, filtered through his “own admittedly skewed perspective”. He worked as an advertising writer for 20 years, so pieces incorporate text work, wordplay, movie references, slang, and more. Like metal, words are malleable; bending and reshaping them can give them a completely different meaning.

 

Educated at Loyola University in New Orleans and the Riverside School in New York City, Buckingham’s work has been on exhibition across California, in Berlin, Chicago, London, New Orleans and now Aspen.

 

He considers his work “unserious” but himself serious about the work.