Continuity, 35th Anniversary Exhibition III
Interim Series II are paper cut-outs suspended over a gouache on paper paintings. The Interim Series is a project exploring the idea of emotional responses experienced during the pandemic using nature as both the medium and screen. Nature is portrayed as a cut-out, with its shadow reaching out over the page. Revealed through the cut-out is an interior world, hidden from view, reflecting a secret view of various emotional states experienced throughout the pandemic.
Annie Kammerer Butrus is an artist who received her Master of Fine Arts from the University Notre Dame in Painting and Printmaking and her undergraduate degree in Studio Art from Wellesley College. Butrus is a Birmingham-based artist who has exhibited her work nationally in galleries and museums. Her work is featured in the collection of MD Anderson, UAB/AEIVA, the Children’s Hospital of Alabama, the Dot Dash/Meredith collection and many prominent private collections across the country. She has been awarded an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Alabama State Council of the Arts and was a featured artist with The Westobou Festival in Augusta, GA and an Emerging Artist for the Magic City Art Connection.
Paper, gouache
11.25×8.75″
Butrus has showed nationally at such places as Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, The Rockford Art Museum, The Huntsville Museum of Art, The University of Alabama, Birmingham, The Snite Museum of Art at the University of Notre Dame, The Wiregrass Museum, Space 301 in Mobile, Space One Eleven in Birmingham, Wellesley College, and the Alabama School of Fine Arts’ Vulcan Materials Gallery. She is a member of Ground Floor Contemporary Gallery in Birmingham, AL and serves on the Alabama Women’s Tribute Statue Commission.
Butrus is interested in the intersection of place, landscape and memory. She uses fundamentals of landscape painting- foreground, middle-ground and background- as metaphors for the way we interact in space. Her projects have ranged from focusing on the way new subdivisions frame-out nature to the tracking of time by tracing shadows of peach trees over years in the orchards in Chilton County, Alabama. She is currently involved in a study of the earth’s surface by portraying Star Wounds as well as creating garden biographies. She is deeply moved by the stories that shadows tell by capturing time and place, functioning as a contemporary memento-mori.
Space One Eleven Involvement: Teaching Artist 2001; Exhibiting Artist: Windows 2002, Bama 2004