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
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.
Galleries
Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Works by the Artist
