Jim Butler
- PAINTINGS: Recent Plein Air
- 2017-2022
- 1996-2009
- 1990-1995
- 1981-1989
- SCULPTURE: "Revolutionary Folk"
- "Economies Of Confusion - Small"
- "New Home"
- "City Of Your Dreams"
- "Compendium I"
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Born: Boston, MA
Solo
Exhibitions: 2016 Gridspace, Brooklyn, NY
2011 The Glass Factory Museum, Boda, Sweden
2007 Corrider Gallery,Rekjavik, Iceland
2001 Buchmann Gallery,Cologne, Germany
Roger Smith Gallery, New York, NY
2000 Galleri Lars Bohman, Stockholm, Sweden
1999 Corridor Gallery, Reykavik, Iceland
1998 Andre Buchmann Galleri, Cologne, Germany
1997 Bravin Post Lee Gallery, New York, NY 1996 Galleri Lars Bohman, Stockholm, Sweden
1994 Track 16 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1994 Bravin Post Lee Gallery, New York, NY
1990 Tibor De Nagy Gallery, New York, NY
1986 Tibor De Nagy Gallery, New York, NY
1984 Tibor De Nagy Gallery, New York, NY
Selected
Group
Exhibitions: 2016 “Solar Vortex”, Geoff Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
“The Soiled Garden”, Buddy Warren Gallery, NY, NY
“Introspection”, BravinLee Projects, NY, NY
“HeadSpace”, Morris-Warren Gallery, New York, NY
2015 “Painting In Trees”, The Peoples Park, Brooklyn,
“Bittersüße Zeiten, Barock und Gegenwart” Werke aus der S ØR Ruhr Sammlung Oelde/Berlin”, Museen Der Stadt, A Aschaffenburg, Germany
2014 “Improvised Showboat”, NAICA, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Zachary Keating and Lauren Britton
2012` “Grand Point Weird”, Grand Point Festival, Burlington, Vt
2011 “New Year, New Work, New Faces”, Storefront Gallery, Bushwick, Brooklyn, curated by Deborah brown and Jason Andrew
2010 “See Through”, Islip Museum Of Art, Islip, NY, curated By Karen Shaw
“Berlin Art Fair”, Berlin, Germany, Buchmann Galerie
“Glass Weekend”, Creative Glass Center Of America, Millville, NJ
2007 “Ho Hum All Ye Faithful”, BravinLee Projects, New York, New York
“Affect/Effect-Adventures In Glass”, Museum Of Northwest Art, La Conner, WA
2006 “Horizon Line With A Monument”, Buchman Galleri, Berlin, Germany
“Painting”, Galleri Lars Bohman, Stockholm Sweden
2005 “Yankee Love and Latin Doodle”, Galleri Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Germany 2003 “Art Walk Benefit Auction”, Custom House, NY, NY 2001 “To Be A Mirror” – Eugene Binder Gallery, New York, NY
2000 “Gangurin The Corridor” Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland 1998 “Composite Modular” - Central Fine Arts Gallery, NY, NY “Humanoid”- Genvese/Sullivan Gallery, Boston, Mass, curated by Nancy Rielle 1997 “Flight #20/ Spin Off” - 21 Murray St.,NY, NY - curated by Wolf Dieter-Stoffelmier 1996 “Realism After 7.00 AM” - Edward Hopper House, Nyack, NY curated by Richard Millazzo “Referencing Innocence/Not” - Weingart Galleries, Occidental College, Los Angeles, Ca
1995 “Small Works” - Adam Baumgold Fine Art, NY,NY “Its Only Rock And Roll-Currents In Contemporary Art”- curated by Tucson Museum of Art; travels to 12 museums
1994 “Dyad” - Sauce, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Annie Herron
“Paintings and Unrelated Stories” - Mustard, Brooklyn, NY,
1993 “Medium Messages” - Wooster Gardens, NY, NY, curated by Vic Muniz
1992 “Small, Really Small, Tiny” - Stiebel Modern, NY, NY
1991 “Against the Grain - Images of American Art 1960-1990”
Southern Allegheny Museum of Art, Loretto, PA
“New York Collection” - Albright Knox Museum, Buffalo, N.Y.
“Art on Paper” - University of North Carolina, Weatherspoon
Gallery, Greensboro, NC
“P.S. 122 - 12th Anniversary Show”, P.S. 122 Gallery, NY, NY
1990 “Summer Selections” - Jerald Melberg Gallery, Charlotte, NC
“Inaugural Exhibition” - Sylvia Schmidt Gallery, New Orleans, LA
1989 “Tribute to Tibor De Nagy” - Butler Institute of American Art,
Youngtown, Ohio
1988 “Art and the Law” - West Publishing Corp., St. Paul,
MN; Toronto Civic Center, Toronto, Canada; Virginia
Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA; Rose Art Museum,
Brandeis University
1987 “The Right Foot” - San Francisco International Airport,
San Francisco, CA - curated Elsa Cameron
“Short Stories” - One Penn Plaza, NY, NY, curated by Judd Tully
1985 “Manifestations of the Figure” - Tibor De Nagy Gallery, NY, NY
1984 “Rapturist Painting Exhibition” - P.S. 122, NY, NY
Grants And 2011 Glass Factory Museum Residency, Boda, Sweden
Residencies 2007 Rockefeller Grant, UrbanGlass, New York, New York
2006 Hauberg Research Fellowhip, 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
Bibliography 2017 “Audio 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 “Object to Paint” – Exhibition Catalogue, essay by Saul Ostrow, illus.
“Jim Butler” - The New Yorker, Goings on About Town
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” and Roll 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 Hollandar and Jed Perl, illus.
1985 “Jim Butler at Tibor De Nagy” - ARTS Magazine, Kirsten Powell,
Visiting Artist 2016 University Of Nebraska-Lincoln
And Critic Pace University
2015 F.A.T.E. National Conf. Paper “Architectural Investigation As A
Foundational Idea Gate”
2012 G.A.S. National Conf., Panelist in “What Does The Term Glass Artist Mean”
2008 University Of Nebraska-Lincoln
2007 The Icelandic College of Art and Craft, Reykjavik, Iceland
2005 Pilchuck Glass School, Seattle, WA
2002 SUNY Albany MFA Program
2001 Maryland Institute of Art
1999 The Icelandic College of Art and Craft, Reykjavik, Iceland
1992 Adelphi University, N.Y.
1989 San Francisco Art Institute, CA
1988 Occidental College
1988 Rhode Island School of Design
1987 New York Studio School
Education: 1980 M.F.A. Indiana University, Bloomington
1978 B.F.A. Rhode Island School of Design
1979 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
1977 Yale Norfolk Summer School of Painting and Music
Teaching: 1981 -present - Middlebury College, Professor of Art, (Chair 1999-2003, 2011-‘13;
Co-Chair, 2015-17)
2007 Instructor, Pilchuck Glass School
1995-96 Visiting Professor of Drawing, Rhode Island School of Design
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