BIOGRAPHY
b. 1948, Montevideo, Uruguay - d. 2014, Greenport, New York
Her early years as an artist were influenced by her close association with the Torres-García family and the artists of the Taller Torres-García, among whom were her teachers: José Montes, Guillermo Fernández, Horacio Torres and José Collell.
Buzio developed technically and artistically through her work with the ceramicist Collell, creating her clay sculpture from earthenware slabs and forming their shapes with the use of curved patterns. Drawing and then painting directly on the unfired clay, Buzio left behind the bucolic landscapes and still lives that had informed her previous work when she settled in New York in 1971. Reflecting her new surroundings, her vessels depicted the buildings and skyline of lower Manhattan and their form also changed as the geometry of the landscape had.
In 2005 she began to work with the architectural elements of the rural villages and the land/seascape of the North Fork of Long Island, New York in her ceramic sculptures. The blues of sea and sky vividly contrast with the blacks, reds and whites of boats and harbors that these works employ. Rounder, yet sometimes cloven or pierced, they continued to create the duple effect that is emblematic of Buzio's work. In 2009, Buzio began work on a series of abstract volumes that she continued to explore until her death in 2014.
Main Solo Exhibitions
2012
Cecilia de Torres, Ltd, New York.
Art Sites, Riverhead, New York
2009
South Street Gallery, Greenport, New York
2006
Art Sites, Riverhead, New York
2004
Garth Clark Gallery, New York
1996
Garth Clark Gallery, New York
1993
Garth Clark Gallery, New York
1992
Garth Clark Gallery, Los Angeles
1991
Garth Clark Gallery, Los Angeles and New York
1989
Garth Clark Gallery, Los Angeles
1988
Garth Clark Gallery, New York
1987
Garth Clark Gallery, Los Angeles
1986
Garth Clark Gallery, New York
Fuller/Goldeen Gallery, San Francisco
1985
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse
Garth Clark Gallery, Los Angeles
1984
Greenberg Gallery, St. Louis
1983
Garth Clark Gallery, Los Angeles and New York
Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston
1977
Rawspace Gallery, New York
1973
Greenwich House Pottery, New York
Group Exhibitions
2016
Under the Influence, Cecilia de Torres, Ltd., New York
2013
Contemporary Abstraction: Recent Works by Gallery Artists, Cecilia de Torres, Ltd., New York
2012
Shifting Paradigms in Contemporary Ceramics. The Garth Clark & Mark Del Vecchio Collection, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
2011
44th Springs Invitational Exhibition, East Hampton, New York
Red Dot. East End Art Council, Riverhead, New York
2010
Collecting with Passion: Contemporary Ceramics - Lennie & Jerry Berkowitz Collection, Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, Missouri
Bricks & Mortar: Inspired by Architecture, Santa Fe Clay, New Mexico
Dream Sequences, Palo Alto Art Center, California
2009
Dirt On Delight: Impulses That Form Clay, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2008
Architecture and Ceramics, Northern Clay Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
2007
An Art of Our Own: Women Ceramicists from the Permanent Collection, Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York
ReGrouping: 3 Generations of Latin American Artists in New York, Mishkin Gallery, New York Cityscape/Landscape, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
All for Art! Our Great Private Collectors Share Their Works, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Canada
2006
DWELL, Nelson Fine Arts Center, Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe
Line-Plane-Volume/Sculpture: 1944-2006, Cecilia de Torres, Ltd., New York
2005
Studio Ceramics from the Museum Collection, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence
Works ON & OF Paper, Cecilia de Torres, Ltd., New York
School of The South, Marlboro College, Vermont
2004
FRAGILE: Think With Care, Wyvern University Gallery, University of Essex, Great Britain
Tea, Anyone? The Donna Moog Teapot Collection, Racine Art Museum, Wisconsin
2003
Sueños y Encuentros, Works by Latin American Masters, Long Beach Museum of Art, California
Fast Forward II, Berkeley Art Museum, University of California
Spring Exhibition, Robischon Gallery, Denver, Colorado
2002
New Works, Art Site, Greenport, New York
The Artful Teapot, 20th C. Expressions from the Kamm Collection, COPIA Museum, Napa, California; Montgomery Museum of Fine Art, Montgomery, Alabama; Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, Toronto, Canada; Long Beach Museum of Art, California; and Mint Museum of Craft & Design, Charlotte, North Carolina
2001
U.S.A. Clay, Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
2000
Works from the Saxe Collection, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, California
Color and Fire. The Smits Collection and Related Works, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California; Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri; The Tucson Museum of Art and Historic Block Tucson, Arizona; Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, Rochester, New York
A Latin American Metaphysical Perspective, Cecilia de Torres, Ltd., New York
1999
Gallery Artists, Cecilia de Torres, Ltd., New York
1998
Real & Imagined, Robischon Gallery, Denver, Colorado
1997
New Works, Robischon Gallery, Denver, Colorado
1996
A Walk in the Woods, Islip Art Museum, New York
The Still Life, Cecilia de Torres, Ltd., New York
1995
65 Years of Constructivist Wood, Cecilia de Torres, Ltd., New York
1994
The Collector’s Eye: Ceramics from the Milrad Collection, Koffler Gallery, Toronto, Canada
1992
International Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary Ceramic Art, National Museum of History, Republic of China
1991
Parallels & Divergence: One Heritage, Two Paths, Daniel Saxon Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1990
Rituals of Tea, Garth Clark Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1989
Surface and Form: A Union of Polarities in Contemporary Ceramics, The National Museum of Ceramic Art, Baltimore, Maryland
Kansas City Collects Contemporary Ceramics, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri
A Woman’s Perspective, Muckenthaler Cultural Center, Fullerton, California
1987
Hispanic Art in the United States: Thirty Contemporary Painters & Sculptors, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; The Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington, D.C.; The Lowe Art Museum, Miami, Florida; Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico; Centro Cultural de Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California; and The Brooklyn Museum, New York
1986
American Potters Today, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Great Britain
Beyond Clay, Kiley Hall Gallery, Queens College-CUNY, Flushing, New York
Painted Volumes, Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia
Ceramics - a Survey, Joanne Lyon Gallery, Aspen, Colorado
1985
Contemporary American Ceramists/Twenty Artists, Newport Harbor Art Museum, California
1984
Ceramics, Douglas Drake Gallery, Kansas City
1983
Ceramic Echoes, Historical References in Contemporary Ceramics, Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, Missouri
Constructions, San Francisco International Airport Arts Commission, California
Surfaces, Garth Clark Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1982
Introductions, Garth Clark Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1981
Clayworks Gallery, New York
1980
Teapot Invitational, Horizon Gallery, California
Lectures
Visiting Artist Program, Department of fine Arts, University of Colorado at Boulder, 1996