Jessi Buchanan is a Georgia artist who takes all the normal obsessions of an average American boy — lawn ornaments, corn dogs, giant mutant koalas with laser-beam eyes — and gives them back to the world in colorful, cartoony canvases. Other than his work, not much is known about Buchanan. Some say he doesn’t really exist. Some say he’s never been spotted in the company of the much more successful Jeff Cohen; others say nothing at all. Most mysteriously, Buchanan seems to have abandoned an ambitious cycle of paintings called The Jessi Buchanan Alphabet at the letter “M” (for “mullet”), sometime in 2006. Will he ever re-surface?
