Artwork copyright Kay Lamoreux Buckner. Photo courtesy of the artist.

Mediated Hopes, 1996

Kay Lamoreux Buckner
American (born 1935, died 2012)

Location: Ridge View Elementary, Kennewick

About the Artwork

Mediated Hopes is part of artist Kay Lamoreux Buckner's body of paintings that depict the atmosphere and interaction between natural forms and manmade structures in the Pacific Northwest. She notes "while traveling in Washington State, my attention was engaged by a string of bright flags near an industrial site. The color, movement and mood of the flapping pennants were an intriguing contrast to the somber factory backdrop -- these disparate elements seemed to be an ideal painter's theme."

This artwork was acquired for the State Art Collection in partnership with Kennewick School District.

About the Artist

Kay Lamoreux Buckner was born and raised in Seattle. She graduated from Lincoln High School, the University of Washington (Bachelor of Art degree in Fine Art, 1958), and Claremont Graduate School in California (Master of Fine Art degree in painting, 1961). Kay was awarded the Rotary Award for Painting at The Northwest Arts and Crafts Fair (1955) in Bellevue, and she was included in Seattle Art Museum's 42nd Annual Juried Exhibition of Northwest Artists (1956). She moved to Eugene, Oregon in 1962, where she had a studio for the rest of her life and taught at the University of Oregon. The Frye Art Museum in Seattle held a solo exhibition of her paintings in 1979.