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Zoë Buckman’s Choreography of Care at YveYang Gallery “Before heading to the gallery, I stopped at a corner wine shop and grabbed a couple bottles—something crisp and light to carry us through the evening. When Zoë arrived her eyes were bright and lively. “You brought wine?” she smiled, genuinely delighted. The energy shifted immediately. Not

‘I am acutely frightened’: artists talk of fears over a second Trump term. “For the artist Zoë Buckman, whose work has engaged feminist themes through striking, in-your-face practices such as plastinating her own placenta and embroidering rap lyrics onto vintage lingerie, the impacts of this election on artistic communities came down in a very different

“She is not afraid to confront, comment, and speak about the range of complexities that define her individual experience. Over the years, she has captured, taken notes, gathered, built, and threaded narratives of her life with an ongoing expansion of how she comments upon the multiplicity of her existence…..” Read Philo Cohen’s article here. 

“What responsibility does an artist have to care for her viewers? This is a question that Zoë Buckman (previously) thinks about deeply. Portraying elements of her own experiences with abuse and sexual violence, Buckman is vulnerable, generous, and outspoken, sharing her stories in a manner that tethers her to countless others who have endured similar

“Emerging from the darkness of her past, prolific British artist Zoë Buckman has put the rage, anger, and gritty intensity of her previous works aside to present a new body of category-defying portraits that bloom with possibility and untamed power. After years of coping with the feelings of loss, pain, and grief so often tied

“There’s a lot of care embedded in “Tended,” artist Zoë Buckman’s highly personal new series of work. Currently on view at Lyles & King gallery in lower Manhattan, “Tended” marks a shift in Buckman’s work toward embracing a more tender side of the female experience. Using colorful embroidery, Buckman stitches tactile portraits of intimacy …”