Betty Butler, an internationally exhibiting, award-winning artist, is known for her unique contemporary digital collages that blend photography with digital painting. Her prints, vibrant and harmonious, evoke the beauty found in natural forms. Notably, Butler has recently turned her artistic focus towards the urgent issues of climate change and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition to her digital collages, Butler's repertoire also includes soft pastel paintings of flowers and fruit. A native Chicagoan now living in Wisconsin, she holds a B.A. in Design from the University of Illinois at Chicago, having studied at The Cooper Union School of Art in NYC.

RESUME

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

AWARDS

EVENTS

EDUCATION

 

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Snow on Colorful Flowers

01/10/2025

Wouldn't it be nice if winter snow fell on pink, orange, mint and purple flowers? Well, I imagined it as such in my new digital print, Early Snow on Flowers . For those of us in the Midwest, winter can be lovely after a fresh blanket of snow but also becomes grey and weary as it drags on.
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Dynamic Art Captures Movement and Energy

12/23/2024

I am honored to have three works in the Flow exhibition at the Naturalist Gallery of Contemporary Art. It is currently on display online through December 7, 2024. The jurors were looking for dynamic art capturing movement and energy.
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New Pastel Utilizes Yellow and Orange

07/12/2024

This pastel painting, Pear and Apricot Group, features the warm colors of yellow and orange. I added a complementary light purple-blue background to enhance its vibrancy. Unlike the following digital image, which happened in an almost accidental series of occurrences, this paste is more deliberate and traditional. While I love arranging and patterning items in collage, drawing requires close attention to proportion and accurate shapes. It is challenging, yet freeing to switch between the two media.
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Prints shown in Washington D.C. Gallery

12/12/2023

I am honored to have two digital collages in the Naturalist Gallery of Contemporary Art, Washington, D.C. It is a gallery that hosts guest exhibitions in photography like this one. It is also home to several contemporary artists.
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Betty Butler, an internationally exhibiting, award-winning artist, is known for her unique contemporary digital collages that blend photography with digital painting. Her prints, vibrant and harmonious, evoke the beauty found in natural forms. Notably, Butler has recently turned her artistic focus towards the urgent issues of climate change and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition to her digital collages, Butler's repertoire also includes soft pastel paintings of flowers and fruit. A native Chicagoan now living in Wisconsin, she holds a B.A. in Design from the University of Illinois at Chicago, having studied at The Cooper Union School of Art in NYC.

RESUME

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

  • 2024, www.gallerium.art
  • 2024, Naturalist Gallery of Contemporary Art, Online, Washington D.C.
  • 2024, Beyond the Scars, Fluent Gallery, Online, Boston, MA
  • 2024, Spring Equinox, PIX Museum, National Association of Digital Artists
  • 2023, Naturalist Gallery of Contemporary Art, Washington D.C.
  • 2023, Gologorski Gallery, Kraków, Poland
  • 2023, Inter-society Color Council, Rochester New York
  • 2022, John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto, ON, Canada
  • 2022, Transformative Power of Art Journal, Online
  • 2021, Light Space and Time Online Gallery
  • 2021, Tebbs Gallery, London, England
  • 2020, Bauhaus Home Gallery, Rome, Italy
  • 2020, Institut fur Alles Mogliche, Berlin, Germany
  • 2020, Lacuna Festivals, Canary Islands, Spain
  • 2020, Vancouver Art Space, Vancouver, Washington
  • 2019, Pennsylvania Art Center for Photography, Doylestown
  • 2019, 2018 - Fusion Art Gallery, Palm Springs, CA
  • 2018, Plaxall Gallery, Queens, NY.
  • 2018, Photography Exhibit at Colorado Environmental Film Festival, Golden, CO
  • 2017, Koehnline Museum of Art, Des Plaines, IL
  • 2016, Creative Coworking, Evanston, IL
  • 2013, 2014, 2015, Frame Warehouse, Evanston, IL
  • 2024, Flow Art Space Gallery, St Paul, MN
  • 2014, Stop and Smell the Roses, Public Art Project – Niles, IL
  • 2012, Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, IL
  • 2011, Northwest Area Arts Council, Woodstock, IL
  • 2010, Fredericksburg Center for the Creative Arts, Fredericksburg VA
  • 2010, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, WI
  • 2010, Swedish Covenant Hospital, Chicago, IL
  • 2009, Northern California Arts, Carmichael, CA
  • 2009, The Art Center, Highland Park, IL

AWARDS

  • 2020, The Artist’s Circle, Dallas, TX, Best in Show
  • 2017, Lightspacetime.com, Honorable Mention
  • 2016, Lightspacetime.com, Award in Photography, 2016
  • 2012 - 2017, ArtSlant.com, international contemporary art network, six showcase winner awards in the new-media category
EVENTS
  • Climate Change Theatre Action – Worldwide Event, 2017

EDUCATION

  • University of Illinois, Chicago BA in Design, 1979
  • The Cooper Union College of Art, NYC

 

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