SHAPE WRECK (2026). Collage & Drawing on Manila. 18x12 in. FOUNDER OF COASTAL RUINISM
David Buetsche, also known as Butch, is a contemporary mixed-media artist exploring American mythologies through material-driven landscapes—where infrastructure, history, and erosion collide.
Harbor Remains (2026). Mixed media, collage, wood, dock line & buoy on canvas. 36×48×6 in.
Coastal Ruinism explores landscapes shaped by erosion, signal failure, and time.
Horizons break. Structures persist, then collapse.
What remains is partial. Fragmented, unstable, and just beyond recognition.Each work exists between presence and disappearance,
where place is remembered, but never fully resolved.
Based in the Midwest, Buetsche works across painting, collage, and embedded materials to construct surface-driven compositions rooted in coastal systems and their decay.
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