Raeghan Buchanan is a visual artist, writer, and creator from Eerie, Pennsylvania. She lives in Columbus, Ohio and paints murals, draws gig posters, makes comics, plays drums, and chooses death by typeface.

SIMPLE BIO

Buchanan uses traditional art techniques to illustrate Black history and envision Afrofuturistic landscapes with murals, comics, and portraiture.

50-CENT WORD BIO

Buchanan uses traditional drawing tools - pen, brushes, sumi ink, and vellum paper - to illustrate stylistically neo protocubist images of important figures in Black history; creating starkly lit, highly modeled portraiture with embellishments of anxiously detailed and decoratively weaved textures. She draws the ancestors to help keep them visible and to honor a shared cultural heritage, as well as to build community with other artists in the diaspora, often using illustrations as counterparts to augment true historical texts about obscured or flattened Black history. You can find her works on various walls and in private collections around Columbus, Ohio, acquired by clients like the Streetlight Guild, Maroon Arts Group, Zora’s House, Columbus Fashion Alliance, the Aminah Robinson House, and Blockfort Gallery.

Buchanan makes comics highlighting rock ‘n’ roll musical roots in Black culture and focuses  specifically on the punk rock aspects of that canon. She gets artistic influence from early punk aesthetic and the political/art movements it drew from, and uses the DIY vehicles associated with punk, such as sloganeering and zines to proliferate information.