Discipline: Visual Arts – sculpture

Ben Butler

Discipline: Visual Arts – sculpture
Region: Memphis, TN
MacDowell Fellowships: 2004
More: www.benbutlerart.com
Ben Butler received his M.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and his B.A. from Bowdoin College. His work has been exhibited in solo shows in New York at Coleman Burke Gallery and Plane Space, as well as at Zg Gallery in Chicago, John Davis Gallery in Hudson, and Davidson Galleries in Seattle, among others. Many of Butler’s sculptures use wood as the basis for intricate, iterative, and gestural patterns. He is the recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Individual Artist Grant and numerous fellowships at residency programs including MacDowell, The Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, and the Ucross Foundation.

Studios

Alexander

Ben Butler worked in the Alexander studio.

Funded through the generous support of Elizabeth Alexander, this studio was built in memory of her late husband, the renowned portrait painter John White Alexander (1856-1915). Originally designed as a visual art gallery, Marian MacDowell persuaded Elizabeth that the space would better serve the arts if commissioned as a visual…

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