Buchmann Galerie is pleased to present an exhibition of works by Jim Butler as part of Berlin Art Week 2026.
The exhibition brings together more than a dozen small-scale, intimate paintings that Jim Butler has created the past five years in the northern New England region of the United States. They are deeply considered pictures, evoking complex emotions through a focused sense of place unique in clarity and distinct realism.
The process of plein-air painting is central to Butler’s practice and critical to the viewer’s experience of the work. Each painting is made believable through nuances of light and air that define how things feel to the touch. Importantly Butler, who grew up in this region, links his immersive perceptual encounters simultaneously with an interior world of association and memory. The results are paintings that chronicle not only his life, but also touch universally felt aspects of our larger common psyche’s need to feel part of continuums of time, nature, and relationships.
The artist’s landscape images of trees, rivers, and boats are undeniably beautiful.