Roger Buttles is a NH-based artist and curator. He will be showing the process behind his evocative and deeply personal paintings that incorporate pastel, graphite, hand-dyed fabrics and other materials. Often working on large-scale paper, the artist focuses on ideas of impermanence channeled through personal narratives and familiar landscapes. Buttles will be doing a demonstration in pastel and mixed media. The studio visit and demo will be live from the artist’s studio.
Roger Buttles received his BA in Anthropology from Harvard University in 2001 and his MFA in Painting & Drawing from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2014, where he was awarded The SAIC Dean Scholarship, The SAIC Rosaline Cohn Scholarship, and The SAIC Laurel Mackie Memorial Scholarship. There he worked as a teaching assistant to Candida Alvarez, Painting & Ephemera and Riva Lehrer, Figure Drawing & Anatomy. He has had solo exhibitions at The Carl and Site Red, both in Chicago; a two person exhibit with Ross Normandin at The Lens Gallery in Boston, and group exhibitions at The Condo Association in Chicago and McMillian, Wisconsin in an exhibition curated by Matthew Dale Fischer. He completed a residency at Alternative Worksite in Roanoke Virginia and currently works in Concord NH, where in 2023 he founded Outer Space, an artist-run gallery that exhibits both emerging and established artists in joint exhibitions.
My work is rooted in the concept of impermanence. In my art I hope to shed light on this inescapable concept that everyone confronts and benefits from. From this starting point I delve into matters that I am personally invested in, intrigued by, or have experienced, either directly or indirectly. Within this narrow thematic focus, a much wider world of artistic expression opens up to me that has deep-seated personal relevance.
