Joleen Button

+ UAG Board Member + Member Since: March 23rd, 2007 + Page Last Updated: June 4th, 2008 + Personal Site: www.joleenbutton.com + Similar Artists: Robyn Diaz, George Dowse, Janet Dwyer Stutzman, Amelia Fallon, Mary Feeley, Carole Fults, Adam Furgang, Susan Handy, Scott Hotaling, Barbara Klemz, Michiko Kubotera, Elizabeth Maloney, Milton McPherson, Henry C. Meier, AWS, Sarah Petrucci, Ann Roberts, Rebecca Schoonmaker, Mike Sperduto, Nina Stanley, Michael Weidrich, Sharon West, Colin Wilkinson

Artist Bio +

As an artist I possess a certain curiosity, one that communicates intuitively through art. My oil paintings are a reflection of my curiosities as well as my experiences studying art in Western Europe. In this brief amount of time I digested the culture and history from my travels within and beyond my point of study in Paris, France.

It is intriguing to me the voice of a painting, drawing prior knowledge and perspective to govern one's experience. I am especially fascinated by the still life paintings of the 17th century. Paintings that speak about vanity and death and yet it seems these age old paintings I admire have evaded the very ideas they represent, for they have outlasted their creator and all previous possessors. It is interesting how some works of art are blessed with such an awesome power of immortality.

My paintings are reminiscent of this time in lighting and subject matter. Items that could suggest something more than what is simply visible. Images with meanings of vanity, greed, and the ever so fragile existence of human life. My paintings possess a style that can be identified, one that I feel is raw through texture and visually beautiful with exotic animals and luscious fruits of this world. In my art I juxtapose the beautiful with the repulsive and sophistication with barbarism. Though, just as the embodiment of the word art, it is in the eye of the beholder. One may be humored by the charm of a monkey seated like a human, enjoying a sweet peach, while another may interpret this as a savage act mocking humanity. A beast seated upon sophistication, illustrated by the velvet chair, greedily devouring knowledge, which is represented by the peach and green apple.

• People's Choice 2008
  Upstate Artists Guild, Albany, New York, June 2008
• The Green Show
  Upstate Artists Guild, Albany, New York, March 2008
• Fatal Abstraction
  Upstate Artists Guild, Albany, New York, February 2008
• 7x5 for $75
  Upstate Artists Guild, Albany, New York, December 2007
• Eat Me!
  Upstate Artists Guild, Albany, New York, November 2007
• Best in Show
  Upstate Artists Guild, Albany, New York, September 2007
• Members Show 2007
  Upstate Artists Guild, Albany, New York, August 2007
• People's Choice 2007
  Upstate Artists Guild, Albany, New York, June 2007
• Pot Heads: New Ideas in Ceramics
  Upstate Artists Guild, Albany, New York, March 2007

• Paris Scholars, Opalka Gallery
  Albany, NY, 2008
• Visions Gallery II, Albany Catholic Diocese
  Albany, NY, 2008
• Troy Night Out, 444 River Street
  Troy, NY, 2008
• Annual Member Show, Albany Center Gallery,
  Albany, NY, 2007
• Troy Night Out, Market Block Building
  Troy, NY, 2007
• Postcard Benefit, Albany Center Gallery,
  Albany, NY, 2007
• Paintings by Joleen Button, Spectrum 8 Theatre,
  Albany, NY, 2007
• 15 John Street Gallery,
  Hoosick Falls NY, 2007
• Paintings by Joleen Button, Madison Theatre Window,
  Albany, NY, 2006
• Bachelor of Fine Arts, Opalka Gallery,
  Albany NY, 2006
• Digital Photography Show, Rathbone Gallery,
  Albany NY, 2005
• Passing the Torch, Little Gallery,
  Albany NY, 2005
• Selections from the Student Art Show, Opalka Gallery,
  Albany NY, 2004
• Design & Processes, Rathbone Gallery,
  Albany NY, 2004
• Black &White Exhibition, Rathbone Gallery,
  Albany NY, 2004
• Selections from Paris, Sage Colleges,
  Albany NY, 2004
• Selections from the Student Art Show, Opalka Gallery,
  Albany NY, 2003
• Selections of Student Art, Rathbone Gallery,
  Albany NY, 2003
• Student Art Show, Parsons Paris,
  Paris, France, 2003
• Selections from the Student Art Show, Opalka Gallery,
  Albany NY, 2002

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