Urban Invites Artist: Jim Butler
Exhibition: Affect/Effect: Adventures in Image, Light and Glass
Organizing Institution: Museum of NorthWest Art, WA
Dates: June 30 – October 7, 2007
UrbanGlass project: Blown, cast, and kilnformed glass sculptures
Jim Butler is a painter and glass artist residing in New York. He has been working to translate his approach to 2-D glass schematic forms. For this exhibition, he created an assemblage that examines the landscape of the road and notions of the journey. UrbanGlass was contacted by the curator of the exhibition to assist with the creation of the glass components of his project, an integral piece of the exhibition, which was in its final planning stage.
Jim attests Urban Invites “…helped to facilitate a serious artistic project by two mid-career artists who, otherwise, would have had to settle for a greatly diminished version of their project. This is exactly the kind of financial assistance artists need: a time-sensitive opportunity to help artists with real-world issues of complex glass fabrication and it’s cost….UrbanGlass is uniquely situated to take advantage of the creative energy of New York’s artists by bringing glass to artists who have ideas and projects that, without funding and expertise, may never become more than notions and ‘what ifs’ ”.
Jim received his MFA from Indiana University and is currently Professor of Art at Middlebury College. He has had numerous solo exhibitions here and abroad.