Buzzy (b. 1976) is a Brooklyn-based artist whose multidisciplinary practice encompasses painting, sculpture, and assemblage. Her work originates in her ongoing series of painted lunch notes—colorful, gestural compositions made on repurposed packaging as daily exchanges with her youngest son. These small-scale works, marked by immediacy and texture, have become the conceptual and emotional foundation of her broader artistic inquiry.

Extending this language into three dimensions, Buzzy’s current series of ceramic creatures translates the expressive spontaneity of the lunch notes into sculptural form. These anthropomorphic figures, characterized by deliberate irregularity and an “ugly-cute” sensibility, merge humor with vulnerability. Accented with 24K gold, the pieces juxtapose opulence and rawness, embodying a high-low aesthetic that reflects her interest in imperfection as a site of meaning and value. Each sculpture becomes a tactile echo of the lunch notes’ emotional register—an enduring articulation of care, play, and experimentation.

Buzzy’s practice challenges fixed notions of beauty and craft through a process-driven engagement with material and gesture. Her children continue to serve as both inspiration and critics, grounding her evolving body of work in an ethos of relationality, authenticity, and the poetics of everyday life.