You can read a nice review of Rick Buttari’s work by Andrew Mangravite here. Broad Street Review: Rick Buttari at F.A.N. Gallery.
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First Friday Focus: September 2013 :: Arts :: Picks :: Philadelphia City Paper
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First Friday Focus: September 2013 :: Arts :: Picks :: Philadelphia City Paper.
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Interview with Rick Buttari
Rick Buttari, Water Ice Factory, 10 X 14 inches, Oil on Linen
Rick Buttari will be showing new paintings for the month of September and F.A.N. Gallery.
We got the chance to ask him a few questions about his work.
Rick Buttari, Beach Scene With Orange And Yellow, 6 X 20, Oil on Linen
KM: What is your first creative memory?
RB: I remember seeing photos of celebrities in magazines and wondering if I could draw them, or more specifically, what about that flat image on the page translated to a three-dimensional living thing when you transferred it to a sheet of paper. I remember taking tracing paper and tracing the outline of a picture from McCall’s magazine, something my mother subscribed to. It looked crude and mechanical but something made me want to try it again and figure out what kind of marks on the paper would make it seem like that person. Then I started to draw pictures from my own Sport magazine, baseball and football players. Somewhere on a sheet of paper inside a scrapbook I have a drawing of Sandy Koufax, probably the first freehand drawing I made. I guess I was about 10 or 11.
Rick Buttari, Gawkers, 10 1/2 X 10 inches, Graphite on Paper
KM: How do you choose your subject matter?
RB: I don’t know if I choose subject matter as much as choose a sense of situation that feels right. I’ve noticed, and been told, that a lot of my work has kind of an objective distance from the subject, like I’m sitting far away and observing, not part of the scene.
Rick Buttari, Shirt Corner, 13 X 20 inches, Oil on Canvas
KM: Your paintings are so realistic and detailed. How do you know when a painting is done?
RB: I was going to say that I listen for the singing of angels to let me know, but that hasn’t worked lately. I work at home upstairs in a very small studio. When the painting’s in progress I bring it downstairs to the living room and lean it against the television cabinet and look at it from further away than I can get in my studio. When I can look at it and take in the whole image in one gulp without my eye wandering restlessly, I assume it’s done.
Rick Buttari, Lighthouse, 13 X 20 inches, Oil on Linen
KM: What inspires your work?
RB: You know, you spend a lot of time looking and thinking. You look at, say, the light that’s hitting the side of a building and you ask yourself if there’s something there for me, something I can make of it that might be a little different than what somebody else would make of it. Or something that seems so important at the time that you can’t NOT paint it.That’s the whole ballgame isn’t it, trying to figure out what it is that you’re trying to figure out.
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New Year Group Exhibition
Rick Buttari, “16th Street Biker”11×15 inches
New Year Group Exhibition
Paintings, Sculpture and Works on Paper
January 4 – 26, 2013
Opening Reception January 4, 5 to 9 PM
Featuring the work of Neil Berger, Rick Buttari, Claire Haik, Joshua Koffman, Tezh Modarressi, Kate Kern Mundie, Gregory Prestegord, Serge Zhukov
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December 2011
Rick Buttari and Joshua Koffman, December 2011
F.A.N. has a wonderful new exhibit opening in December.
Rick Buttari: New Paintings and Joshua Koffman: Sculpture
There will be a group show on the second floor featuring new work by Jesse J. Gardner, Al Gury, Kate Kern Mundie, Carlo Russo, Serge Zhukov, and introducing new artists Nick Patten, Philip Corey and Olga Nielsen, plus work by many more or FAN’s artists.
December 2nd – 31st, 2011
Opening reception:
Friday, December 2nd, 5-9:00 PM
Hours: Wednesday – Sunday, 12-6:00 PM
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F.A.N.’s 19th Year at USArtists American Fine Art Show & Sale
Serge Zhukov, Drawing Class, Right part of diptych. Acrilic, oil on canvas 36×36 inches
Al Gury, Twilight, oil on canvas, 16 x 20 inches
USArtists is the nation’s premier American art event. Many of the country’s
finest art dealers exhibit and sell an extraordinarily rich and diverse collection
of 18th- through 21st-century American art.
This will be F.A.N. Gallery’s 19th year exhibiting at USArtists American Fine Art Show & Sale. Please come and share in a selection of new paintings, sculpture and works on paper by David Bottini, Rick Buttari, Lesa Chittenden Lim, Al Gury, Robert Heilman, Tezh Modarressi, Kate Kern Mundie, Gregory Prestegord, Carlo Russo, Kathleen Weber, Serge Zhukov, and others.
Friday, Saturday & Sunday, September 23-25, 2011
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts | Samuel M.V. Hamilton Building
Opening Night Preview Gala: Thursday, September 22
New Collectors Night: Friday, September 23
Show Hours:
Friday and Saturday, 11:00 am – 8:00 pm
Sunday, 11:00 am – 5:00 pm
Admission
PAFA members & children under 12 are free!
General Admission: $15 pp
Seniors & Students with ID: $12 pp
Groups of 6 or more: $12 pp
Benefits of Admission: Receive one full-color show catalog, unlimited entry to USArtists 2011 and one free admission to PAFA valid until October 2012.
Receive a $3 discount on a full price admission ticket when you purchase online.
All proceeds from USArtists directly benefit student scholarships
at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
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Upcoming Events
Tezh Modaressi: Hard Times, Opening reception May 6, 2011
May 1-29, 2011: Tezh Modaressi
opening reception: Friday, May 6th, 5-9 PM
Opening reception for Kate Kern Mundie: New Paintings June 3, 2011
June 1-26, 2011: Kate Kern Mundie
opening reception: Friday, June 3rd, 5-9 PM
July 1-30, 2011: Matt Greenway
opening reception: Friday, July 1st, 5-9 PM
August 5-27, 2011: Group Show
opening reception: Friday, August 5th, 5-9 PM
September 2-24, 2011: Kathy Weber
opening reception: Friday, September 2nd, 5-9 PM
October 7-29, 2011: Serge Zhukov
opening reception: Friday, October 7th, 5-9 PM
November 4-26, 2011: Lesa Chittendem Lim
opening reception: Friday, November 4th, 5-9 PM
December 2-31, 2011: Rick Buttari
opening reception: Friday, December 2nd, 5-9 PM
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