Luke Butler

Born: 1971

Hometown: San Francisco, CA

Lives and Works: San Francisco, CA

Education: MFA, California College of Arts, San Francisco, CA, 2008
BFA, Cooper Union School of Art, New York, NY, 1994

Luke Butler Bio

About The Artist

Luke Butler's work affectionately toys with popular heroic narratives. He paints the visible—great men falling, equipment failing, the story ending—in hopes of illuminating something less visible—anxiety, masculinity, mortality. The abiding regard he has for the seemingly disposable heroic figures of his youth leads Butler to conjure them within an enduring iconography of pathos. Luke Butler lives and works in San Francisco.

Luke Butler Gallery Art

Galleries

Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, CA