As a part of the campus-wide faculty show at UW-Madison’s Chazen Museum, Derrick Buisch, a professor with the School of Education’s Art Department, and a team of helpers moved his 38.75-foot-long painting from the Art Lofts to the Museum across major streets on campus.
Scott Gordon, a writer for Tone Madison, was a part of that team. In an article for Tone, he describes the process of transporting Buisch’s work: “Museums and galleries often feel like such immaculately controlled and tidy spaces, so it was comforting to realize setting up an art show can be as tricky and awkward as heaving a bulky sofa into a cramped apartment.”
Gordon and Buisch have been friends for years, and have helped each other with similar tasks in the past. “… Derrick helped me move a couch once and I helped him move a bookshelf once,” Gordon jokes. “So I suppose this was the next step in our rotation of moving favors.”
The painting, a part of a series called “Peripheral Painting,” was installed in a space that’s not traditionally treated as a part of the gallery space. Buisch explains that the goal of the series is “to make paintings fit into spaces inside the museum that don’t typically get paintings and spread them out, so it’s a bit of an egg hunt to find all of them.”
Read Gordon’s Tone Madison report here.