Jim Butler
Painting and Sculpture
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.
Selected Works
Gallery Exhibitions
Jim Butler
Born 1956 in Boston.
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY and Shoreham, VT.
| 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 |
| 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 |
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1987 1984 1983 |
Vermont Council on the Arts Grant to Individual Artists: Painting |
| 1979 | Ford Foundation Grant- Skowhegan School |
| 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. |
| 1996 |
Realism After 7AM, Exhibition Catalogue, Essay by Richard Millazzo, 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 |