Ivan Butorac
Ivan Butorac is based in Los Angeles, CA.
"Love for art started at an early age, I remember coming home from school with friends and watching their reaction after seeing my parents art that was everywhere in the house, it was magical, I discovered the power art and color have on human emotion and mood." Ivan Butorac
Heavily influenced by his parents who are both established artists, Butorac was always in a state of motion and experimented with a multitude of media. He studied at the Arts Academy in Belgrade, and always in flux later in 2014 spent a year working for the artist Saint Clair Cemin in his studio in Brooklyn, NY. Seeing what is then dreaming and creating a space for this new reality is what Butorac has done since he was a child. His work sits between meaning and no meaning; abstract and non-abstract, also geometric. He is not interested in conveying a message, but more interested in posing questions:
What does this look like?
Does it remind me of something?
How does this make me feel?
"Art is about creating a space for the viewer. It is the discovery of one's own possibilities. It's about freedom, self expression, following your interests and going beyond the rational mind. I am interested in bringing light into the world." Ivan Butorac
Biography
Born: Belgrade, YU, 1980
Education: Arts Academy BK, Belgrade, RS
Exhibitions
Solo:
2011 Cappellini, LA
2012 Urban Hardwoods, LA
2014 Cappellini, Soho, NY
2018 Budman Studio, Venice, CA
2020 October 10th, "SPRAY CAN" The Lem HQ, Los Angeles,
2020 October 17th,"Double Optic" BG Gallery, Bergamont Station, Santa Monica
Group:
2011 Phantom Galleries, LB
2013 Ethos Gallery, LA
2014 Hale Art Space Gallery, Venice,CA
2015 MD Gallery, LA
2017 Legato Studios, DTLA
2018 Cappellini, LA
2018 Beverly Hills Art Show, BH
2018 Wndo Gallery, Venice, CA
2019 Yucca Valley Art Center, Yucca Valley, CA
2020 Art Palm Spring fair, Palm Springs
2020 La Neomudejar, Art Museum, Madrid, Spain
2021 Bg Gallery, Grayscale Wonderland 4, Bergamont Station, Santa Monica
2021 La Art Show Fair, La Convention Center, Los Angeles
2022 La Art Show Fair, La Convention Center, Los Angeles
2022 Intersect Palm Springs Fair, Palm Springs Convention Center, Palm Springs
2022 Palm Springs Modernism Week, Palm Springs Convention Center, Palm Springs
2022 Art Market San Francisco Fair, Fort Mason Center, San Francisco
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