Site Red Gallery Chicago

Our Only Day

Winter is Over

As I Walked Out One Morning

Occultural Appropriation

Rational Distance

Pliocene Park

Roger Buttles: Our Only Day

On view from April 20 – May 1st

Opening reception: Friday, April 20, 2018 6-9 PM

3201 S Morgan, Chicago IL, 60608

 

For our final event, Site Red is thrilled to present a solo exhibition of work by New York-based artist Roger Buttles. This series of monumentally-scaled scrolls is a pictorially rich exploration of themes of untimely loss and the enduring, restorative power of love. Utilizing inventive compositional structures, vibrant color, and a densely layered amalgam of personal symbolism and visual fragments pulled from memory, this body of work is a generous look inside the artistic process, and how it is shaped and fueled by life events both tragic and exuberant.

-D. Rabe

 

Installation views:

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Roger Buttles Our Only Day Site Red Gallery Chicago

Roger Buttles Our Only Day Site Red Gallery Chicago

Roger Buttles Our Only Day Site Red Gallery Chicago

Roger Buttles Our Only Day Site Red Gallery Chicago

Roger Buttles Our Only Day Site Red Gallery Chicago

Roger Buttles Our Only Day Site Red Gallery Chicago

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Roger Buttles Our Only Day Site Red Gallery Chicago

Roger Buttles Our Only Day Site Red Gallery Chicago

Roger Buttles Our Only Day Site Red Gallery Chicago

Roger Buttles Our Only Day Site Red Gallery Chicago

Roger Buttles Our Only Day Site Red Gallery Chicago

Roger Buttles Our Only Day Site Red Gallery Chicago

Roger Buttles Our Only Day Site Red Gallery Chicago

Roger Buttles Our Only Day Site Red Gallery Chicago

Roger Buttles Our Only Day Site Red Gallery Chicago

Roger Buttles Our Only Day Site Red Gallery Chicago