David Buetsche Studio

David Buetsche Studio Taught art/photo/design at Elder HS for 18 yrs. Now work as art director at Salyers Group in Cov, Ky.

12/05/2025

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“These Western Skies That Bind” (2025)Acrylic, Spray Paint & Gel Medium on Wood Panel48 in. x 24 in (121.9 cm x 61 cm)Th...
10/04/2025

“These Western Skies That Bind” (2025)
Acrylic, Spray Paint & Gel Medium on Wood Panel
48 in. x 24 in (121.9 cm x 61 cm)

There’s something about a forming supercell. Tthe way it gathers strength on the horizon, both mesmerizing and humbling. This piece explores that tension between beauty and power, how the distant horizon can draw us in, yet hold us still in the sublime.

W.I.P. This series, “Forgotten Riders”, started with books, archival photographs and newspaper clippings of Nat Love, Je...
10/03/2025

W.I.P. This series, “Forgotten Riders”, started with books, archival photographs and newspaper clippings of Nat Love, Jesse Stahl, Bill Pickett, and Jim Perry, four legendary Black cowboys whose stories helped shape the American West.

My process always begins with raw ground layers: paint, texture, and abstract fields of color. From there, I bring in collage elements: vintage newspaper clippings, photographs, and fragments of text that tie directly to their lived histories. Finally, I layer in paint, drips, and washes, letting each surface carry the same grit and resilience that defined their lives.

Each image here (3 per cowboy) shows a different stage of the build: from loose abstraction ➝ layered collage ➝ close-to-finished portrait. It’s my way of giving these riders the place they deserve in the story of the frontier. I’m still working on these but thought I’d show a little behind-the-scenes here in the studio.

Their names should be remembered. Their legacies should ride on.

It’s the Weekend!! Time to Paint the Town!! Or canvas like I do!!!! Like this piece “Garlands of Glory” that is now hang...
10/03/2025

It’s the Weekend!! Time to Paint the Town!! Or canvas like I do!!!! Like this piece “Garlands of Glory” that is now hanging in the ✨🐎🌹. If you’re out this weekend in Covington, KY, swing by, check it out in person, and grab a cocktail while you’re there 🍸. Grateful for all the support!”

Hard to imagine some of the most unforgettable Westerns without their iconic figures, be it hero or villain. But history...
10/02/2025

Hard to imagine some of the most unforgettable Westerns without their iconic figures, be it hero or villain. But history left out so many others. People whose stories were erased because of race, gender, or religion.

My work explores those forgotten figures, layering absence and presence to ask… What if they had been given their rightful place in our story? What if their stories were the ones selected to be taught in school or written about in the history books?

Whose stories do you think deserve to be remembered and retold?

Hey Y’all! Excited to announce I’ve been selected by Midtown Alliance as one of 150+ artists featured in the Southeast’s...
10/01/2025

Hey Y’all! Excited to announce I’ve been selected by Midtown Alliance as one of 150+ artists featured in the Southeast’s Largest Outdoor Art Gallery! The original piece “Woman in Cloche Hat with Flowers and Feathers (Dotty) was one of two new works originally created for in Covington, KY but I thought she needed a little vacation this fall to one of my favorite southern cities! You can find my art along w/ 300+ other works featured throughout Midtown Atlanta. For my Atlanta-based followers, feel free to take a photo with Dotty (I think she’s between 4th and 5th St) and tag me in it!! I can’t get down to in person anytime soon so I’d love to see how she looks!! Cheers!!

Piecing together stories of the past is what I love about narrative-based artwork. Storytelling sits at the root of so m...
09/29/2025

Piecing together stories of the past is what I love about narrative-based artwork. Storytelling sits at the root of so much of my practice. Each fragment, each image, carrying a history that begs to be remembered.

My current series, “Forgotten Riders,” has me looking deeply at the legacy of Black cowboys. True trailblazers who shaped the culture of the American West but whose names only now begin to haunt the recognition they deserve. Their grit, resilience, and skills in the saddle changed the game, yet their stories were long left untold.

This work is about honoring them, reconstructing their place in history like this collage, and like it, reminding us that the fragments still carry a voice.

✨ Archiving Origins ✨ I’ve been trying to make time recently to photograph and archive my work. I’m not very good at tha...
09/27/2025

✨ Archiving Origins ✨ I’ve been trying to make time recently to photograph and archive my work. I’m not very good at that so hoping to get a more organized collection. These were some of my earliest mark-making studies which became the foundation for my commission to create the guest room art at North .

These drawings were born from experimentation with powdered charcoal, applied to toned papers using unexpected objects: a basketball, climbing rope, and gym ring. Each left behind its own raw, physical trace. Gestures of movement, friction, and weight.

Looking at them now, I see how they stand strong on their own. Minimal yet powerful. For me, they remain the cornerstone of the works I created for North and a reminder of where this creative journey began just three years ago.

Recently someone asked me if I had ever tried my creating my ink drawings using objects, similar in technique to the wor...
09/26/2025

Recently someone asked me if I had ever tried my creating my ink drawings using objects, similar in technique to the works I made with old gym equipment for all the guest rooms at North , built inside a converted YMCA from 1913.

Now, with my studio here in Kentucky, the first object that came to mind was the horseshoe. 🐎 So I started experimenting yesterday, coating them in ink and letting the weight, shape, and splatter speak for themselves.

The first two sets of images show single horseshoe drops. The third series explores what happens when two collide on the page. I’m pretty pleased with how the studio experiment turned out… raw, energetic, and rooted in place. Have a great weekend, y’all!!!

At the CROSSFADE show this past Thursday, asked me the simple question of “Why Bison?” Which is a fair question as I gr...
09/21/2025

At the CROSSFADE show this past Thursday, asked me the simple question of “Why Bison?” Which is a fair question as I grew up in the Midwest and my current body of work, bison, Black cowboys, Western landscapes, glaciers, lighthouses and their keepers, explores a number of themes that I was not exposed to growing up and might at first glance seem disconnected from one another. So here goes…

My current art practice is focused on the forgotten or the disappearing: figures, animals, and landscapes that history or time has left behind. Simply put… I don’t want to see them lost twice. My art centers on subjects that live at the edge of memory or survival. People and places forgotten by history, and natural forms that may disappear in my lifetime. I’ve been drawn to stories like Black cowboys and lighthouse keepers, whose contributions and livelihoods shaped culture but are rarely acknowledged.

At the same time, I explore bison, wolves, and glaciers that act as symbols of the natural world that at some point were on the verge of extinction or that are currently in danger of disappearing. Through layered materials and imagery, I want to capture the tension between endurance and loss, reminding us that forgetting can happen both in human history and in nature itself. The work becomes a record, but also a confrontation asking what we choose to remember, and what we allow to fade.

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