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Tyler Butcher: Empty Kingdoms


Craighead Green Gallery

Opening Reception, January 6, from 5-8 p.m. On view from January 6 through February 10. 

Tyler Butcher // Empty Kingdoms

Georgia based painter Tyler Butcher makes his way back to Craighead Green Gallery with a new series of work entitled “Empty Kingdoms.”  Struck by the recent refugee crisis, Butcher draws parallels with the state of bodies lost to human constructs and souls in limbo.  While Butcher’s paintings retain his signature silhouette figures, this time they are placed in landscapes that are equally nondescript and alien.  In one work, the sky above a faceless crowd is colored like a neon apocalypse.  Another painting reveals a lake scene (normally a pastoral setting) through a ghost-like figure, an unfulfilled desire.  Butcher explains that this series is meant to “…let people into our respective worlds rather than closing ourselves off into our own kingdoms.”  

Tyler Butcher is a painter living and working in Savannah, Georgia.  He is currently an educator at Savannah College of Art and Design and exhibits in Texas, Georgia, and Florida.

 

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