Philip Buller: An Other

An Other An exhibition of recent paintings by

Philip Buller

Fall 2013

Philip Buller: An Other October 24 - November 26, 2013

38 Newbury Street Boston, MA 02116 617.450.4300 www.QuidleyAndCo.com

Talking about painting thinking about swimm

but doesn’t

g is a little like ming:

it can be interesting t really keep you aoat.

The practice of painting, and swimming, requires effort, trust, and a certain kind of surrender. These qualities are necessary to work in the mysterious space between careful representation and spontaneous abstraction.

The paintings in this body of work dwell in this space because this most reects the nature of my experience.

These paintings are artifacts from an exploration of how we are separate and how we are connected.

We gather together on beaches, in cities and towns, each of us leading actors in our own dramas.

What is the nature o Is it our ability to empathize which

of our connection? h holds us in this loose embrace?

The more I work with these images the mo

ore I begin to empathize with these ďŹ gures.

The simple act of seeing opens me to our shared condition, an apparent separation.

Yet, we swim in the same sea.

And, the longer we look,

the boundaries which separate

begin to appear more like

the forces that connect.

Philip Buller 10-2013 “An Other” Artist’s Statement

Artworks 1.

Child with Blue 48 x 48 inches

8.

Cast 60 x 80 inches

2.

Wild Inside 32 x 40 inches

9.

Alone Together 48 x 56 inches

3.

Space Between 48 x 40 inches

10.

Ahead 30 x 48 inches

4.

Composition of a Day 72 x 94 inches

11.

Together Alone 30 x 36 inches

5.

Heat 48 x 60 inches

12.

Serious Play 30 x 48 inches

6.

Summer Friend 32 x 26 inches

13.

August 56 x 48 inches

7.

Sunday 48 x 52 inches

Philip Buller Born to diplomat parents, Philip Buller spent his formative years in vastly different cultures in India, Africa, Washington, DC and New England. The young artist studied graphic design, toured as a musician, and worked as a builder before formally studying painting and drawing at the California College of Arts and Crafts, where he received his MFA in 1994.

Buller’s representational paintings transcend literal narratives and signify universal themes. Buller explains, “I apply paint, remove paint - creating and obscuring forms. A form must be fully realized before it can be obscured. The ambiguity of a blurred image often encourages me to reach below a literal interpretation of form.�

Philip Buller lives and works on Galiano Island in British Columbia, Canada.

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