Biography
Born 1955, Iowa
MFA, University of Iowa, 1989
Raised in the rolling hills of eastern Iowa, Larry Buehler grew up wandering the back roads, exploring the woods and fields of the heartland. As a student of painting and printmaking at the University of Iowa, land was his primary subject. Inspired by his professor, Ben Frank Moss, Buehler quickly developed his own language of expressive brushstrokes and marks. Buehler's MFA exhibition featured a series of large intaglio prints of prairie lands, windswept and silent, where sensitive line and rough tone shape landscapes full of energy and depth.
Drawn to the open spaces of the West, Buehler relocated to Seattle in the late 1980's. Over the last three decades, Buehler's work has evolved in reponse to the chiseled landscapes and dramatic cloud forms of the Pacific Northwest as well as his inner landscape. While line continues to be a powerful part of Buehler's lexicon, color is his first language. From subtle atmospheric tints to dramatic abstracted slashes of pure hue, Buehler is master of oil painting.
Larry Buehler maintains an active studio practice while also working as a master mason. Buehler has a wife and a son.
Biography
MFA, University of Iowa, 1989
Raised in the rolling hills of eastern Iowa, Larry Buehler grew up wandering the back roads, exploring the woods and fields of the heartland. As a student of painting and printmaking at the University of Iowa, land was his primary subject. Inspired by his professor, Ben Frank Moss, Buehler quickly developed his own language of expressive brushstrokes and marks. Buehler's MFA exhibition featured a series of large intaglio prints of prairie lands, windswept and silent, where sensitive line and rough tone shape landscapes full of energy and depth.
Drawn to the open spaces of the West, Buehler relocated to Seattle in the late 1980's. Over the last three decades, Buehler's work has evolved in response to the chiseled landscapes and dramatic cloud forms of the Pacific Northwest as well as his inner landscape. While line continues to be a powerful part of Buehler's lexicon, color is his first language. From subtle atmospheric tints to dramatic abstracted slashes of pure hue, Buehler is a master of oil painting.
