| Ken Butler Is Drawing And Driving At The ArtMovingProjects |
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Ken Butler--Drawing and DrivingSeptember 8 - October 14artMovingProjects 166 N.12th St. (Bedford and Berry) Williamsburg 917-301-6680, 917-301-0306 Gallery Hours: Thu-Sun, 1pm - 6pm artmovingprojects.com mindspring.com/~kbhybrid  The "Drawing and Driving" exhibition includes 40ft slot car track with a stable of "hybrid" cars made by Ken Butler  Ken Butler with a selection of his modified instruments  Butler has been modifying instruments for years - this exhibition is a collection of his auto-themed works Also, the artist presents a sit-down race-driving simulator (with steering wheel and pedals) utilizing a Playstation 2 and GranTurismo 4. While in high school in Portland, Oregon, the artist won a first-in-state award from The Fischer Body Company Craftsman's Guild for the design and construction of a sports car prototype, laboriously carved from sugar pine. He had dreams of going to Europe to work with high-end automobile design firms like Pininfarina, Bertone, Zagato, and the like. Ken Butler is an artist and musician whose hybrid musical instruments, collage drawings, performances, and installations explore the interaction and transformation of common objects, altered images, sounds and silence. His works have been featured in numerous exhibitions and performances throughout the USA, Canada, and Europe including The Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam and Exit Art, Thread Waxing Space, The Kitchen, The Brooklyn Museum, Lincoln Center and The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City as well as in South America, Thailand, and Japan. His works have been reviewed in The New York Times, The Village Voice, Artforum, Smithsonian, and Sculpture Magazine and have been featured on PBS, CNN, MTV, and NBC, including a live appearance on The Tonight Show. Awards include fellowships from the Oregon Arts Commisssion, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts.Ken Butler studied viola as a child and maintained an interest in music while studying visual arts in France, at Colorado College, and Portland State University where he completed his MFA in painting in 1977. He has performed with John Zorn, Laurie Anderson, Butch Morris, The Soldier String Quartet, The Tonight Show Band, and The Master Gnawa musicians of Morocco. His CD, "Voices of Anxious Objects" is on Zorn’s Tzadik label. |
