Presented by C. Parker Gallery

Brought to you by Tiffany. Raised in New Orleans, David Buckingham received a degree in Communications and worked in advertising agencies in Boston , New York and San Francisco. In the early 90’s he met Ray “Cowboy” Kelly, who had started a Lower East Side movement called Rivington School, a group of Anarchist welders and poets who had taken over an abandoned lot on Rivington Street and built weird scrap metal towers. They were also working out of an abandoned gas station at the corner of 2nd and B in New York . The artist began to weld in earnest and upon his subsequent moved to Los Angeles in 1999 his career skyrocketed. Buckingham became obsessed with making art. He began to hike into the Mojave Desert where he discovered abandoned and battered, colorful metal which came in the form of hay balers, trucks, rice threshers and old school buses. These relics of a time passed, were the artists inspiration. Buckingham began to work exclusively with these materials. Having spent 20 years as a professional writer, text and word play had an important role in his sculptural work. David Buckingham’s work is in the collections of such Hollywood luminaries such as Harrison Ford, Perez Hilton, Josh Groban, and Steven Bocho. The artist currently lives and works in Los Angeles.