Curriculum Vitae

Kurt Buesching is a Detroit-born painter and photographer whose work emerged from the second generation of Cass Corridor artists, a group now recognized for its raw materiality, urban grit, and unwavering engagement with the physical and psychological landscape of Detroit. Active in Detroit and Chicago throughout the 1980s and early 1990s, Buesching exhibited in artist-run spaces, independent galleries, and in regional publications that helped define the era’s underground visual culture — including Detroit Artists Market, Willis Gallery, Latent Image, Detroit Focus Quarterly, and the influential Meat City, Mad Rhino and Wayne Review publications.

Over several decades, Buesching has maintained a disciplined studio practice while building a parallel career in design, photography, and visual systems, allowing his artistic language to evolve without losing its roots in structural clarity and urban observation. His current paintings and photographic studies revisit the industrial and architectural landscape with a minimalist restraint shaped by years of design experience. These works bridge past and present: grounded in the material sensibility of the Cass Corridor movement yet reimagined through a contemporary lens that highlights form, tension, and the quiet geometry of place.

Now re-entering the public art sphere with a mature and cohesive body of work, Buesching brings forward a long-standing visual investigation that speaks directly to current interest in post-industrial narrative, architectural abstraction, and the renewed cultural relevance of Detroit’s artistic legacy.

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