Jordan Buschur

BIO

Jordan Buschur is an artist, educator, and curator based in Toledo, Ohio. Her paintings focus on collections of objects ranging from stacked books to interiors of drawers, all united by a system of value based on mystery, sentimentality, and a matriarchal connection. Buschur received an M.F.A. in Painting from Brooklyn College, the City University of New York.

Her work has been shown in numerous locations, including exhibitions with the Center for Book Arts (NY), Tiger Strikes Asteroid (NY) and SFA Projects (NY). She participated in residencies at Chashama North, the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, and the Vermont Studio Center. Awards include the Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award, the Kimmel Foundation Artist Award and the Charles Shaw Painting Award. She is a co-founder of Co-Worker Gallery and has curated exhibitions at Cuchifritos Gallery, Spring/Break Art Show, and the Neon Heater. Buschur was the Director of the Eisentrager-Howard Gallery at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln and currently teaches at the University of Toledo.

You'll like Jordan if: you get cute trinkets at yard sales and thrift stores but then never quite know what to do with them after

"My paintings imply a human presence through depictions of accumulated collections. The items in each collection, including the contents of desk drawers, stacks of books, packed boxes, and objects on display, are united by systems of value shaped by mystery, sentimentality, and the matriarchal connection."