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Article: Benjamin Butler: Karyn Lovegrove Gallery.
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- Artforum International
- Article date:
- January 1, 2006
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In his first solo exhibition at Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, painter Benjamin Butler exploited to the hilt the sometimes surprising range of color found in nature. With the exception of Field of Flowers (all works 2005), every painting here depicts trees, and Butler's unapologetically single-minded focus signals a relationship to his subject that is both personal and profound. At first glance, Butler's simplistic forms and restricted subject matter might suggest a lack of substance, but a little more time spent with his paintings reveals a deeper complexity. There are nods, for example, to Impressionism, Color Field painting, and psychedelia. The disparate influences of ...
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Article: Benjamin Butler at Team.(NEW YORK)
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...In his third solo at Team Gallery, Benjamin Butler, who resides in New York and New Haven, showed five drawings and 10 paintings, two of which lay parallel to the floor on low ...
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