The Peter Mendenhall Gallery is pleased to announce Me Love You Long Time, an exhibition of recent sculpture by Los Angeles-based artist David Buckingham.

Metal found wherever it is, in scarp yards, abandoned factories, or in the California low deserts, are the raw materials for Buckingham’s sculpture. The metal is cut, drilled, and welded in unlikely juxtapositions using brains, brawn, and a surprisingly delicate artistic sensibility. The resulting work--movie lines, abstract color studies, and words--resonate with ideas of cultural significance and formal beauty.

“In good California-assemblage, Buckingham renders his panels from found and welded metal, incorporating the rusty tints and textures and the oddly sweet colors of midcentury tin cans and car parts into everything from minimalist abstractions to evocations of folk quilts to wise-ass signage...Buckingham's formula is as flatfooted as they come, and that only enhances the bad-boy charm of the resulting hyper-plaques," says Peter Frank in the LA Weekly.

Mr. Buckingham’s most recent exhibition was at O.K. Harris Gallery in New York.

An opening reception at the gallery for the artist will take place on Saturday, January 10,from 6 to 8 pm. For further information please contact Peter Mendenhall at (323)936-0061.