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Austin American Statesman

Butler Blends Influences Deftly

By Jeanne Claire van Ryzin

November 7, 2006

Kansas-born, Brooklyn-based Benjamin Butler pulls on a bunch of seemingly disparate sources to create his latest suite of paintings now on view at Lora Reynolds Gallery.

The painter gives us colorful, easel-sized portraits of trees, distilling the natural forms into color-block lines of vibrant colors, inserting backgrounds of simplified blocks of color or neat grids of lines. Read More