Jim Butler

Painting and Sculpture

Buchmann Galerie is pleased to announce the exhibition The New England Paintings by US-American painter Jim Butler during Berlin Art Week.

 

The exhibition The New England Paintings by US-American painter Jim Butler brings together a dozen intimate paintings created by the artist over the past five years, painted en plein air in his native northern New England.

 

Jim Butler Butler’s practice combines precise observation of nature with memory and personal experience. The finest nuances of light, atmosphere, and color give the paintings an extraordinary immediacy. Landscapes with trees, rivers, and boats draw their power from the quiet intensity of the everyday.

 

The artist makes visible the beauty of his immediate surroundings while opening a space for personal memories and associations. His paintings are full of light and subtle textures, they cast a quiet spell allowing us to experience a world in delicate balance. In the concentrated representation of the familiar lies the universal power of Butler's work. His pictures tell of time, change, and the deep connection between humans and nature, inviting viewers to perceive the world with renewed attention.

‘Jim Butler’, 2019
Jim Butler, 2019

Selected Works

‘Late Ice’, 2024, Oil on aluminium
Late Ice, 2024
Oil on aluminium

Gallery Exhibitions

Jim Butler

Born 1956 in Boston.
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY and Shoreham, VT.

Education
1980 M.F.A. Indiana University, Bloomington
1979 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
1978 B.F.A. Rhode Island School of Design
1977 Yale Norfolk Summer School of Painting and Music
Grants and Awards
2019 Corning Museum of Glass Visiting Artist Residency
2011 Glass Factory Museum Residency, Boda, Sweden
2007 Rockefeller Grant, UrbanGlass, New York
2006 Hauberg Research Fellowship, Pilchuck Glass School
2003 Mellon Foundation Grant for New Sculpture in Glass
1998 Tiffany Foundation Nominee

1987

1984

1983

Vermont Council on the Arts Grant to Individual
Artists: Painting
1979 Ford Foundation Grant- Skowhegan School

Selected Exhibitions

2026
2025
2023
2022
2021
2020
2019
2018
2017
2016
2015
2014
2012
2011
2010
2007
2006
2005
2001
2000
1999
1998
1997
1996
1995
1994
1993
1992
1991
1990
1989
1988
1987
1986
1985
1984
Selected Publications
2019 “New American Paintings” Editor’s Choice, Steven Zevitas Pub., Illus.
“Jim Butler-Artist in Residence”, Online Video, Corning Museum Of Glass
2018 “Jim Butler-One Question One Answer”, Romanov Grave, March
2017 8 Art Shows That Will Set Your November On Fire, Spoiled NYC, Jaunita Tovar
Jim Butler Exhibition Review, Urban Glass Quarterly, John Drury, March, Illus.
Studio Interview, Magic Praxis Podcasts, Clarity Haynes and Kate Hawes
2011 New Glass Review, Corning Museum of Glass
Pilchuck At 40-Still Introducing Artists to Glass, G.A.S. News,
Dianne C. Wright, Curator of Glass, Chrysler Museum
2001 New Glass Review, Corning Museum of Glass
Pilchuck At 40-Still Introducing Artists to Glass, G.A.S. News,
Dianne C. Wright, Curator of Glass, Chrysler Museum
2000 Gangurin The Corridor, Exhibition Catalogue, Essay Gunnar J. Arnason, illus.
1998 The Humanoid, Matt Murphy, Arts Media Magazine, March
1997

Critics Choice, Shirley Kaneda, Bomb Magazine, Summer, Illus.
Jim Butler At Bravin Post Lee, David Ebony, Art In America, Illus.

1996

Realism After 7AM, Exhibition Catalogue, Essay by Richard Millazzo, Illus.
“Surveying Realism in Celebration of Hopper, Vivian Raynor
New York Times, November, Illus.

1995 “Its Only Rock and Roll-Rock- Currents In
Contemporary Art, Exhibition Catalogue, Essay by David S. Rubin,
Published by Prestel Press, Illus.
1994 Jim Butler Paintings, Exhibition Catalogue, Essay by David Moos,
Published by Smart Art Press, Illus.
1989 Tribute to Tibor De Nagy, Catalogue, Butler Institute of Art, Illus.
1988 American Art Today, Narrative Painting, catalogue, Florida
International University Art Museum, essay by John Hollander and Jed Perl, illus.
1985 Jim Butler at Tibor De Nagy, ARTS Magazine, Kirsten Powell