The End, 2011 - Luke Butler
About the Work
About The End
Luke Butler toys with contemporary mythology. To him, THE END is a classical figure that looms in our consciousness, despite our ability to see right through it. As a static image floating in its own pictorial space, it seems contradictory ...Read More
Luke Butler toys with contemporary mythology. To him, THE END is a classical figure that looms in our consciousness, despite our ability to see right through it. As a static image floating in its own pictorial space, it seems contradictory, absurd, and poignant—an anti-picture. In referring only to itself, it sheds its familiar narrative role and takes up that of a memento mori.Read Less
About the Artist
About Luke Butler
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 ...Read More
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.Read Less
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Description
Color photograph made with archival pigments on fine art rag paper with matte finishAuthentication
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