Buster Graybill
Visiting Assistant Professor
The University of Texas at Austin, M.F.A.
Art Building WASH
936.293.8401
gsg003@shsu.edu
Teaching Area: WASH

Buster Graybill teaches WASH, an experimental studio program that explores contemporary issues surrounding the visual arts. He holds an MFA in Sculpture from the University of Texas at Austin and a BFA in Sculpture from the University of North Texas.

Buster’s sculptures, installations, videos, and photography have been exhibited throughout Texas and in 2007 he was awarded a fellowship to attend a 9-week artist residency at The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. In 2008, he was selected for the 20 to Watch: New Art In Austin exhibition at the Austin Museum of Art. Also in 2008, he was selected for the Viewfinder exhibition at The Houston Center for Photography. He is currently working on a temporary outdoor sculpture commission for the 2009 Texas Biennial in Austin, TX.

“I harvest memories, stories, language, and objects from the rich cultural geography of rural America and use it as creative fuel. Themes of adaptation, displacement, and re-contextualization have a strong undercurrent in my work. These themes are spawned from the subtle shifts and rapid changes that occur in the rural landscape as urban sprawl continues to consume and displace both nature and culture.”