Spring Exhibition at the Crocker Art Museum Features the Art of John Buck

SACRAMENTO, CA.- Thirty years of John Buck’s sculpture and printmaking are surveyed in the traveling exhibition, “John Buck: Iconography,” featuring 50 prints, sculptures, and shadow box constructions. The exhibit, drawn from the collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and his family foundation, opens at noon on March 12 at the Crocker Art Museum. The exhibition runs through May 15, 2011. This retrospective recognizes the reach of Buck’s art and highlights the ongoing regional importance of the artist and his work. An alumnus of the graduate program at University of California, Davis (UC Davis), Buck figures among the artists participating in the most important artistic moment centered at UC Davis in the late 1960s and 1970s. Buck began making sculpture in wood—a practice he continues today—during the mid-1970s. His sculpture is assembled from the carved and expertly shaped wood into large-scale

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