Cleveland Painter of the Urban Environment Opens Show on Waterloo

 

Fri 7/8 @ 6-9PM

Stacey Bartels’ Framed Gallery on Waterloo specializes in African-American art from across the country and abroad. It displays a permanent mix of paintings, drawings, assemblage art and more.

It also displays part of its space to rotating special shows devoted to particular artists such as Urban Oasis: The Reality of Our Lives by David Buttram, which opens this Friday July 9.

Buttram happens to be from right around these parts. He attended Buttram Cleveland’s defunct Cooper School of Art and the Cleveland Institute of Art to earn his BFA, before going on to get a masters in art education from Kent State University. He’s now retied from his career as an art educator in the Cleveland Metropolitan School District and spending his time painting.

His subject is what’s close at hand: the urban environments. He cities Van Gogh, Rembrandt, Harlem Renaissance painter Henry Ossawa Tanner, the Ashcan school and the Impressionists as inspirations.

“Buttram creates images of natural and man-made objects with vivid combinations of lights, shadows, reflections and colors,” says the show’s press release. “Each work reveals a range of human emotion and mood enabling viewers to convey the toil, strife, beauty and peace within. Capturing the moment within the city that expresses the precious nuances of life, Buttram illuminates the challenge among his subjects through the diversity of looks and attitudes making each painting a uniquely joyous celebration.”

The July 9 reception is free and open to all.

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