Opening Reception: First Friday Gallery Walk, March 6, 6-10pm

Peter Butler’s exhibition features recent monoprints of swimmers in pools. The water slightly distorts the figures as they glide silently through a perfect world, unaware of the gaze upon them. Butler edits as much complexity out of the compositions as he can, with simplicity as a goal. He notes that he aims to create beautiful works that do not require too much complex thought to enjoy them.
 
Monoprinting is a unique process of creating individual works of art, combining printmaking, drawing, and painting techniques. Pigments - oil paints as in the case of Butler’s works - are applied and manipulated on a sheet of plexiglass using brushes, rollers, cotton swabs, fingers, etc. The image produced is then printed in reverse onto paper. This is a challenging and exciting technique because it is difficult to determine what the final effect will be. Monoprinting produces a one-of-a-kind, unique work of art.
 
Peter Butler has been a member of the Artspace Artists Association for fifteen years. He is a full-time oil painter living in Clinton, NC. Butler’s work has been widely exhibited in the region through his participation in numerous juried, group, and solo exhibitions.