Phoenix Rising
John Buck
Bozeman, Montana
Phoenix Rising, 2006
Woodcut print
This visually complex woodblock relief print depicts a central image of a Dodo, which is an extinct flightless bird. The Dodo is surrounded by a graphic constellation of icons and symbols that reflect our troubled times.
Bio
Born in Ames, Iowa, in 1946, artist John Buck has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Kansas City Art Institute. He also studied at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Skowhegan, Maine, and received a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of California, Davis. Over the past four decades, Buck has created a large and significant body of artwork made up of woodblock prints, sculpture, and three-dimensional wood panels. His work is in public collections all over the country. Buck and his wife, artist Deborah Butterfield, divide their time between a ranch in Bozeman, Montana, and studios on the island of Hawaii.