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source: theotherpaulbutler

Paul Butler (b. 1973, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada)

Considered multi-disciplinary, Butler’s practice if focused around community, collaboration and artist-run activity. Butler’s projects include: The Collage Party – touring studio made open to the public; Directing The Other Gallery – a nomadic commercial gallery; leading Reverse Pedagogy – an experimental residency at the Banff Centre for the Arts; and serving as the inaugural artist-in-residence at The Art gallery of Ontario. He has exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; White Columns, New York City; Creative Growth Art Centre, Oakland; La Maison Rouge, Paris; and is represented by Jessica Bradley Art and Projects, Toronto. Currently, Butler is pursuing his MFA at Concordia University, Montreal. He has contributed writings to the book Decentre: Concerning Artist-run Culture and to the magazines BorderCrossings and Canadian Art.
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source: anthologymag

A bit of beauty to send you into the weekend! While browsing through my favorite sites the other day, I was stopped in my tracks these collages from the Within Us series by Paul Butler, and proceeded to his website to ogle each and every one. They remind me of Gerhard Richter’s painted photographs, in which colorful smears and globs of paint both obscure and elevate everyday family photos into highly evocative abstract landscapes. While it seems easy to cut out a figure, or smear paint on a photo, there’s clearly an insightful and deliberate artistic touch at work here. The result is hauntingly beautiful and wholly captivating, I must say.