18 x 24 in
Jim Butler The New England Paintings
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
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 |