Joleen Button

+ + + + UAG Associate Member Member Since: March 23rd, 2007 Page Last Updated: August 26th, 2009 Personal Site: www.JoleenButton.com + Similar Artists: Ellen Becker, Jonathan Becker, Newbold Bohemia, Heather Brown, Ryan Carll, Thomas D'Ambrose, Robyn Diaz, George Dowse, Janet Dwyer Stutzman, Amelia Fallon, Mary Feeley, AnneMarie Fraley, Carole Fults, Adam Furgang, Susan Handy, Susan Himmel, Scott Hotaling, K.V. Khai, Barbara Klemz, Amanda Klish, Michiko Kubotera, Blair Lambert, Mary Leak, William Lowder, Ford McLain, Milton McPherson, Henry C. Meier, AWS, Guy Noerr, Natalie Paquette, Sarah Petrucci, corey pitkin, Ann Roberts, Laurie Sandy, Rebecca Schoonmaker, Sarah Schrom, Jamison Smith, Mike Sperduto, Nina Stanley, Michael Weidrich, Sharon West, Colin Wilkinson, Valerie Wolf, Evelyn Wood

Artist Bio +

Joleen Button is an upstate New York artist whos curiosity is communicated through forms of art. She creates contemporary oil paintings with an old world quality of succulent fruits and exotic animals, such as peacocks, persians cats, and primates. Button is inspired by peculiarities of life, such as existence and the passage of time, beauties of nature and human desire. Her style stems from her studies at The Sage Colleges in Albany, NY and Parson's School of Design in Paris, France. Joleen is currently an exhibiting Fine Artist and Fashion Designer and she teaches graphic design at a Digital Media Arts Colllege in Albany, NY.

Most recently, Joleen won 1st Place in Art on Lark's annual fashion show competition, Project LarkWAY 2009.

• People's Choice 2010
  Upstate Artists Guild, Albany, New York, June 2010
• The Yellow Show
  Upstate Artists Guild, Albany, New York, May 2010
• Small Works
  Upstate Artists Guild, Albany, New York, December 2009
• People's Choice 2009
  Upstate Artists Guild, Albany, New York, June 2009
• Issues
  Upstate Artists Guild, Albany, New York, March 2009
• 50/50
  Upstate Artists Guild, Albany, New York, December 2008
• Buried City
  Upstate Artists Guild, Albany, New York, October 2008
• Reflections
  Upstate Artists Guild, Albany, New York, August 2008
• 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

• Proctors Theatre, Delack Guild
  Schenectady, NY, 2009
• SLCA
  Sand Lake, NY, 2009
• Abram Lansing Elementary School
  Cohoes NY, 2008
• Visions Gallery, Albany Catholic Diocese
  Albany, NY, 2009
• Upstate Artists Guild, Art on Lark
  Albany, NY, 2009
• 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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