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Artists : Samuel Butnik Class of 2001

Samuel Butnik was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1920. After graduating from the Cleveland Institute of Art, he pursued his artistic career in many places, living in Taos, New Mexico, New York City, France, Greece, Spain, England and Providence, Rhode Island. He currently lives and works in Oberlin, Ohio. Butnik's geometric, abstract works progressed from a more "soft abstraction" in the early 1960s to "hard edge" paintings in the late 1960s, 1970s. In the eighties, Butnik explored more minimal landscapes. More recently, Butnik has been creating "jackstraw" paintings in which he puts down colors and lines in reciprocal arrangements that create a composition with lively movement and fictious depth. Butnik's work can be found in the collections of the Cleveland Museum of Art, Akron Art Museum, Walker Art Museum at Bowdoin College, Providence College, Allen Memorial Art Musuem of Oberlin College and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Missouri. In Memoriam: Friend and Archived Artist Sam Butnik (1920 - 2004)

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