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Press Clippings, Tear Sheets, and Reviews

 The works on view seem to reflect the musings of a fantastic and tortuous imagination... or so we thought until her subjects showed up en masse at her opening, revealing once and for all that
Butter is actually a realist.

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CLIPPINGS and TEARS MOSTLY IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER

JANUARY 2013 // FEMMELDEHYDE

 

EXCERPT 

….You don’t need the super abilities
of any kind of physics, or a degree to build one of these. But
if you can assemble Ikea furniture, and kind of get it together
without the plans… that’s about what I’m offering here. Except
for the part where you need a hexahydronomical space radio.
But if you had that, it would work. And these things were very
big back in the 1920’s. If you got a hold of that, and an alarm
clock, a pink rock, a jar with a jar inside of it, a roll of string,
a watch, an apple, and some pins, and about a handful of wire,
we could punch a hole in space-time…..


EXTERNAL LINK http://www.femmeldehyde.com/

EXTERNAL LINK 2 http://issuu.com/femmeldehyde/docs/issue03-singlepages1/21

LBL MIRROR http://www.lilybutterland.com/home/femmeldehyde-2012/

SEPTEMBER 2012 // PRETTYQUEER

EXCERPT  

Toronto-based artist Lillian Butter, who also paints under several alter egos, showed the first two installments of a giant triptych depicting her own misadventures while stranded in Amsterdam.  The triptych, called “BloedGrache: Er is Niks aan te Doen /// Blood Canal : There is Nothing you can Do” depicts the fight that ensued when Lamb showed up on (and was ejected from) BloedStraat, a street within the red light district of Amsterdam where transsexual prostitutes tap on shop front windows from the inside at prospective clients walking by.  The paintings sequentially illustrate this stunning scene in Lamb’s filthy and delicious style which captures so much detail–each window within what might be called the “background” of the larger painting shows a glimpse into the character of a different person working on BloedStraat and this creates a sense of place that left me feeling like I could smell and even taste the air of this strange and horrifying scene that only Lamb could have both survived to tell and successfully transported her audience to her experiences on BloedStraat.  Lamb’s talent and previous work should make the grotesque and stunning painful beauty of these paintings no surprise but I still found myself stunned in the presence of her paintings.
EXTERNAL LINK http://www.prettyqueer.com/2012/09/07/twatfest-2012/

NOVEMBER 2011 // UP&CUMMING

EXTERNAL LINK http://upandcumming.com/
LBL MIRROR Up$Cumming is Under Construction :/
EXCERPT Joyride

 

NOVEMBER 2011 // SEX CITY RADIO

This week on Sex City—November 12, 2011

This weekend on Sex City Bryen chats with Alison Gordon, Vice President of Rethink Breast Cancer, Torin explains the meaning behind Sapiosexuality, Sybil Lamb tells us about her porn paintings and sketches, and singer J.P. Hunter gets us hot with his hypersexual Sacramento band, Get Shot!

EXTERNAL LINK AUDIO FILE  LISTEN

EXTERNAL LINK 2 http://www.sexcityradio.webs.com/

LBL MIRROR LONG UNCUT :(  http:///lilybutterland.com/PDF/11-12-11_SexCity(LAMB%20INTERVIEW).mp3

SUMMER 2011 // MAD PRIDE

SUMMER 2011 // ART SLANT

 

Butter documents the private lives of New Orleans
gutterpunks and squatters in her mixed media drawings and paintings. At
once filled with sordid realities and psychedelic reverie, Butter’s work
captures the essence of her subjects’ lives on the street and in their
temporary shelters. The poignancy of her work comes from the permanence
of her artistic statement, with it’s bold lines and color, which
contrast with the transitory and combustible nature of her subjects’
lives.

– I think this is a Quote from Maria Batan. 

EXTERNAL LINK  http://www.artslant.com/ew/articles/show/28065

APRIL 2011 // GENDER ODYSSEY CATALOG

 

Gender Odyssey
52 Artists Including  S.Bear Burgman and Leonard Spock Nimoy.
Ridgefield Guild of Artists 
http://rgoa.org/index2.php/category/archive/page/2
Ridgefield CT
opening was april 30th but show is up all month

   POST 1730 or 1805

 

http://thevisionarypost.tumblr.com <DEADLINK 2013>

Self Absorption causes Side Eyes !!!

Lillian Butter - Fetishized Face Surgery , Barrister&#8217;s Gallery, New <br />Orleans<br />Butter documents the private lives of New Orleans gutterpunks and <br />squatters in her mixed media drawings and paintings.  At once filled <br />with sordid realities and psychedelic reverie, Butter&#8217;s work <br />captures the essence of her subjects&#8217; lives on the street and <br />in their temporary shelters. The poignancy of her work comes from the <br />permanence of her artistic statement, with it&#8217;s bold lines and<br /> color, which contrast with the transitory and combustible nature of her<br /> subjects&#8217; lives.  The similarities between Butter&#8217;s<br /> work and the work of Egon Schiele are also striking, pointing to the <br />fact that works from the &#8220;street&#8221; don&#8217;t <br />necessarily fall far from the &#8220;loftier heights&#8221; of <br />Modernism.  Schiele was a master at depicting tortured and <br />hyper-articulated physiques, as well as the erotic playfulness, <br />self-absorption, or anguish of his various sitters.  Indeed, he sought <br />these sitters out because they mirrored his own physique and psyche, <br />which one can see in his many self portraits.  With the works in <br />&#8220;Lost Little Girl&#8217;s Art Show&#8221;, Lillian <br />Butter&#8217;s taps into the rich vein of portraiture that Schiele <br />opened and makes it new once again by wedging it between the worn out <br />soles of a pair of Doc Martin Boots and the concrete her subjects tread <br />everyday.<br />-Reggie Michael Rodrigue   
Lillian Butter
“Fetishized Face Surgery”
mixed media on paper
11” x 17”
in the exhibition “Lost Little Girl’s Art Show: Work by Lillian Butter”, Barrister’s Gallery, New OrleansButter documents the private lives of New Orleans gutterpunks and squatters in her mixed media drawings and paintings.  At once filled with sordid realities and psychedelic reverie, Butter’s work captures the essence of her subjects’ lives on the street and in their temporary shelters. The poignancy of her work comes from the permanence of her artistic statement, with it’s bold lines and color, which contrast with the transitory and combustible nature of her subjects’ lives.  The similarities between Butter’s work and the work of Egon Schiele are also striking, pointing to the fact that works from the “street” don’t necessarily fall far from the “loftier heights” of Modernism.  Schiele was a master at depicting tortured and hyper-articulated physiques, as well as the erotic playfulness, self-absorption, or anguish of his various sitters.  Indeed, he sought these sitters out because they mirrored his own physique and psyche, which one can see in his many self portraits.  With the works in “Lost Little Girl’s Art Show”, Lillian Butter’s taps into the rich vein of portraiture that Schiele opened and makes it new once again by wedging it between the worn out soles of a pair of Doc Martin Boots and the concrete her subjects tread everyday.
EXTERNAL LINK    http://thevisionarypost.tumblr.com/post/5087948354/lillian-butter-fetishized-face-surgery-mixed <dead link 12.12.31>

SPRING 04/19/011 // The GAMBIT  pg43

 

EXTERNAL LINK  http://www.insidenola.org/2011/04/bedsole-at-bienvenu-butter-at.html

Lillian Butter’s paintings and drawings at Barrister’s are all about the lifestyle of a certain subculture of pierced and tattooed wanderers who locally cluster in the St. Roch neighborhood. As expressionistic as anything by George Grosz, the works on view seem to reflect the musings of a fantastic and tortuous imagination—or so we thought until her subjects showed up en masse at her opening, revealing once and for all that Butter is actually a realist. Either way, this Canadian punkster who divides her time between Toronto and Nola is a talented artist as well as the recording angel of a particular milieu. What Toulouse-Lautrec was to the Paris demimonde of the past, Butter is to the St. Roch subculture of the present.

LOST LITTLE GIRL’S ART SHOW: Paintings and Drawings by Lillian Butler, Through May 7, Barrister’s Gallery, 2331 St. Claude Ave, 710-4506; www.barristersgallery.com

-Bookhardt

 

EXTERNAL LINK 2  http://issuu.com/gambitneworleans/docs/41911/search?q=butter

EXTERNAL LINK  http://www.insidenola.org/2011/04/bedsole-at-bienvenu-butter-at.html

 

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JUNE 2010 // AORTA/ART XX

 

The Breakthrough San Francisco Arts Mag Profile That Never Happened cuz AORTA Had a Bit of a Financial Misshap. Reconstructed From the Files of Artsy Punk Provocateur Immogen Binnie
EXCERPT
I am an art school drop out, but i only realized how much i learned from art school recently. Shortly after I decided to get serious about being a professhonal artsy I discovered that everybuddy didn't
know much about 2 and 3 point perspective or color schemes or proportion in gesture drawings. Every single one of those things is actually very relevant in everyday life. they come up all the time.
oh Imi, Luv you n shit
EXTERNAL LINK http://www.myspace.com/artxxmagazine
DEAD LINK  http://www.artxxmagazine.com/

EXTERNAL LINK 2 http://remember-who-u-are.blogspot.ca/2010/02/art-xx-becomes-aorta.html

 

 

LBL MIRROR // CLICK HERE FOR FULL MISSING SECRET 2010 INTERVIEW
http://www.lilybutterland.com/home/the-lost-aorta-art-xx-interview/

 

FALL 2007 // KNYO Homesteader

Really Really Old Radio Interview With Ian Mayes on Attempting to Found an Artist Studio Co-op in a Disaster Zone
EXTERNAL LINK 

http://lilybutterland.com/PDF/Lost_At_Termite_And_Vine.mp3

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