David Buckingham (b. 1958, Los Angeles, CA) makes sculpture from what the American landscape has already discarded. Working out of a DTLA studio, he scours the windblown deserts and industrial margins of Southern California for barrels, road signs, tractor parts, and car doors, welding and muscling found metal into work that turns the culture’s own language back on itself. All color is original as found. Buckingham does not paint.
Trained as an advertising creative director, he spent two decades writing copy across New York, Boston, San Francisco, and Sydney before a chance encounter with Ray “Cowboy” Kelly and the Rivington School, a band of anarchist welders operating out of an abandoned East Village lot, changed the trajectory entirely. He has presented over twenty solo exhibitions across the US and internationally, including shows at O.K. Harris, New York; Packer/Schopf Gallery, Chicago; and Scream, London. His work is held in private collections worldwide.