Vunkbaum is a portmanteau combining the names of Ray Vunk and Barry Buxbaum, two process-oriented Memphis artists whose symbol-laden work is complementary but stylistically dissimilar. Buxbaum loves negative space, texture, and surfaces. Layers of milky wax give his illustrative encaustic paintings depth. Vunk prefers busy collages that are flat, neat, hard-edged, and heavily graphic. “Putting […]