Curtain, 2020 pencil, oil, on panel, 10 ½” x 15 ½”
My pieces are made by drawing with colored pencil on painted panels that have been sanded so that the original image is not present any longer. These drawings are representations of imagined entities, things in a world. These entities live while not being completely available to us to interpret or know. They do have a feeling, a sense of private being, and inhabit a pictorial space. The various colors employed are nameable and contribute to their identity. However these colors are not intended to quite determine or describe the entities by working relationally. This color is more independent: the color functions more like the way wearing clothes works for us. The titles are associative and give the viewer clues as to how to enter and begin to take in the works. All the works are relatively small, book sized.
Festoon, 2020, colored pencil, oil on panel, 10 ¾” x 15 ½”
Free Rider, 2020, colored pencil, oil on panel, 15 ½” x 13”
Generation, 2020, colored pencil, oil on panel 20” x 15 ¼”
Prime Number, 2020, colored pencil, oil on panel, 15 ½” x 18 ½’
Swimming, 2020, colored pencil, oil on panel, 20” X 19”
Tom Butter has been exhibiting sculpture, paintings, drawings and prints in NYC and internationally since 1980. He is included in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Walker Art Center, and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Frederick Wiseman Collection, and many others.. His work has been reviewed in many art publications, including Art in America, Artforum, The New York Times, The New Yorker, ArtNews, and Sculpture Magazine. Recipient of 3 NEA Grants and 2 New York Foundation Grants, Butter has been on the faculty at many East Coast fine art programs, including those at Rhode Island School of Design, Tyler School of Art, Yale University, Harvard University, University of the Arts, and many others. Member of the faculty at Parsons the New School for Design in the Fine Arts Department since 1986.
Artist Homepage: www.tombutter.com
Image and Text Courtesy of the Artist.
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