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Peter Butler

Peter Butler is an accomplished North Carolina artist with more than a quarter century of painting experience. He earned a BFA degree from UNC-Chapel Hill in 1976, and is represented in private and public collections throughout the country, including the Duke Children's Hospital in Durham.

When describing his work, Butler says, “I don’t belong to any school or ‘isms’. I’ve looked at all of them and taken what was useful to me. What I do is some version of figuration. Hard-edged forms presented in a soft light. The subjects are largely devoid of meaning. There isn’t much going on. I invest the forms with a convincing sense of mass and that creates space. Solid forms are defined by a supple line. The subjects are symbolic and symbols mean different things to different people. I leave that to the viewer. For me, this is the way the world looks and it doesn’t look some other way. The images are bold, the forms are clearly defined. Soft subject presented in an aggressive style.”