Wyatt Cole Roderick Buescher

Pro Type: Photographer

Wyatt Roderick Buescher (he/him) [b.1996 – Chicago, IL.] is a multidisciplinary photographic artist working primarily within the concepts of education, light, perception, and the notions of artistic practice. The driving force in his work is pushing a sense of discovery that is enhanced by the formal elements found in the history of photography. His work plays with reality – revealing it, complicating it, making it lyrical – often holding tension between the formal elements of the photographic and the painterly. He creates photographs in three categories: with a lens, without a lens, and with a lens of his own construction – coupled with in camera manipulations, this creates a dynamic range of nontraditional imagery. Ultimately sight is questioned and becomes a matter of perspective and function. The standard field of vision that is to say ‘the eye’ quite literally shifts focus, and the ‘sight’ of the camera (its mechanisms) begins to operate as both function and reality. The imagery draws its aesthetics from the exploration of the relationship between architectural structures and natural environments creating a tensioned space of absence and yet equal presence. This creates a notion of discovery. Roderick Buescher earned his BFA at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, VA, with a major in Photography and Filmmaking, and his MFA in Photography at Parsons School of Design at The New School in New York, NY. He is a New York City based artist, and has exhibited in Chicago, New York, Richmond, China, and the Netherlands.