Charles Buckley.

Studio Origin New York, United States

Primary Discipline Fine Work on Paper

Focus Area Striated Ink Drawings

Institution Status Founding Artist

Curated Since 2026

Founding artist Charles Buckley standing in front of a gallery wall showcasing his framed narrative striated ink drawings and fine art collection on Mitsooz.

The Origin - Artists Journey

Charles Buckley was born and raised near the beach in Southern California, where the shifting horizons and coastal light first influenced his artistic eye. He moved north to attend the California College of Art in Oakland for his BFA before relocating to New York to earn his MFA at Hunter College.

Now based in Brooklyn, Buckley has become known for a practice that bridges the gap between the digital aesthetic of the past and the timeless medium of ink. His work is exhibited extensively with the Susan Eley Gallery and has been acquired by private collections across the United States and Europe. His "Striated Drawings" featured on Mitsooz continue to challenge how we look at our own past, proving that what we lose is just as important as what we keep.

Studio Dialogue.

"My work is an investigation of the area where things cannot be explained rationally, yet fit within the logic of the painting and seem to be known."

The Resonance.

By using both found and personal photographs, the work offers an initial sense of familiarity that quickly becomes unstable. Up close, representation dissolves into abstraction; the particulars grow hazy and give way to the rhythm of the lines, requiring the viewer to fill in the missing emotional information.

Gallery viewers admiring the framed striated ink drawings of Charles Buckley at a Susan Eley Fine Art exhibition featured on Mitsooz.

The Intention.

Buckley’s work operates on the belief that forgetting is a necessary component of remembering. In "The Striated Drawings," he explores this through the physical relationship between the viewer and the page. From a distance, the mind instinctively bridges the gaps between the ink lines, creating a sense of narrative clarity and a "perfect" representational image. However, as the viewer approaches the work, this clarity is revealed to be an illusion. The image begins to fracture; the particulars grow hazy and give way to the stark rhythm of the lines themselves. This transition mirrors the unstable nature of nostalgia: the closer we attempt to examine a specific moment from the past, the more we realize the significant role that absence, omission, and the "gaps" in our memory play in shaping our personal history.

A close-up view of Charles Buckley's technical process on Mitsooz, showing the hand-drawn horizontal lines that create the striated effect.

The Process.

Charles Buckley's drawings are created through a meticulous application of horizontal ink lines. This method mimics the visual language of CRT television sets, where the image is constructed through rows of information. The "vibration" of the lines creates a sense of movement and instability, mirroring the way memories shift over time.

The Details.

The Technical Bio.

Charles Buckley is a Brooklyn-based artist whose professional practice is anchored in a rigorous exploration of the medium of ink and the mechanics of perception. Born in 1966 in Los Angeles, he earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting from the California College of Arts in Oakland in 1994, followed by a Master of Fine Arts in Painting from Hunter College in New York in 2000. Buckley’s career is marked by a long-standing exhibition history with Susan Eley Fine Art in New York and Hudson, as well as significant appearances at international art fairs including Art Toronto, Context Art Miami, and a multi-year presence at The Other Art Fair in Brooklyn. His work, specifically "The Striated Drawings," is held in numerous prestigious private collections across the United States and Europe, recognized for its unique contribution to contemporary drawing and mnemonic investigation.

The Craft & Materiality.

Buckley utilizes ink and negative space as his primary tools. The "striation" refers to the thin, horizontal lines that build the image. While the ink provides the structure, the undrawn space - the absence - is what generates the work's emotional charge.

The Accolades.

The Accolades (Select Exhibition History)

2024: Femme, Susan Eley Fine Art, NYC
2022: The Archeology of Memory (Two-person show), Susan Eley Fine Art, Hudson, NY
2020-2025: Featured Artist, The Other Art Fair, Brooklyn, NY
2019: Art Toronto, Susan Eley Fine Art, Toronto, ON
2014/2016: Context Art Miami, Susan Eley Fine Art, Miami, FL
2012: Four of Five New Paintings (Solo Show), Giacobetti Paul Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

Artist Since: 1994

The Artist's Secret (Unseen Fact).

The catalyst for this entire body of work was a discovery: Charles found photographs his father had taken of the 1969 moon landing directly from a live television broadcast. The prominent CRT lines on the old screen sparked a deep sense of nostalgia, leading to his lifelong investigation of the "striated" image.

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