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Paul Butler’s multi-disciplinary practice is rooted in community, collaboration and artist-run activity. In addition to his longstanding studio practice, Butler has also produced projects that include: The Collage Party (est.1997) – a travelling participatory studio; The Other Gallery (2001-2011) – a nomadic commercial gallery with a ...
Paul Butler was the inaugural Artist-in-Residence at the Weston Family Learning Centre from September through November 2011. As part of his residency, Butler designed a public program called Post-Post Graduate Studies (PPGS) that ranas an alternative art school inspired by the writings of Ernesto Pujol and art school models like The Mountain ...
Dec 11, 2008 · Appropriating George Whiteside ’s photographs of Toronto art-scene leaders run in last year’s special Toronto issue of the magazine, Butler enacts his trademark tape-masking to turn museum directors, dealers, critics and artists into black mystery-figure silhouettes.
Paul Butler (born 1973 in Winnipeg, Manitoba) is an artist with an interest in multidisciplinary, social and alternative pedagogical practices. His practice includes hosting the collage parties, a touring experimental studio established 1997
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Paul Butler's practice merges artmaking with community building, which has inevitably led him to the work of Canadian artist Greg Curnoe (1936–1992). Based in London, Ontario, Curnoe was deeply committed to advancing the rights of artists while fostering visual arts in his hometown from the 1960s onward, until his sudden death in a cycling accident...
Since 1998 Butler has hosted the Collage Party, a travelling experimental studio that invites the public to create works in collective spaces, from museums and galleries to schools and non-profit art centres. These art events serve as a forum for ideas, inspiration and connections that engage a spectrum of communities. He has also established The O...
Tatiana Mellema is a curator and writer from Toronto. She earned her MA in Art History at Concordia University, and has worked at numerous institutions across Canada including The Banff Centre, The Power Plant and the National Gallery of Canada. Her writings on contemporary art have been published in Canadian Art, C Magazine and Akimblog, as well a...
Sep 23, 2011 · In his first act as the Art Gallery of Ontario’s first artist in residence, Paul Butler communes with the spirit of late, great artist Greg Curnoe to bring the outside in.
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Paul Butler is a Canadian Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1973. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Gallery TPW have featured Paul Butler's work in the past. Paul Butler's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 65 USD to 1,620 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork.
