Preston Buchtel Research Paper

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Preston Buchtel is an artist who lives and works in Cleveland, Ohio. He works primarily in the mediums of painting, collage, and photography. In recent years, he has expanded his photography based work to include the construction of digitally assembled photographic collages, which are represented in this exhibition. Preston holds a Bachelor of Fine Art from the Cleveland Institute of Art and a Bachelor of Architecture from Kent State University. He is represented in Cleveland by Kenneth Paul Lesko

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