Luke Butler

The End, XIX, 2014

I can see Luke Butler hanging out with Montgomery Clift and Liz Taylor, sipping daiquiris by the lake-house with not a care in the world, but then all great movies must come to “an end.” Butler specializes in these two powerfully evocative little words having dedicated the lion’s share of his exhibition at the Charlie James Gallery to the ever-familiar and all-too-satisfying denouement.  For Butler, the televised image reads like an old friend, or even more specifically here in the second part of his exhibition, a poignant “trekkian instant” when good old Mr. Spock might suddenly turn around and say “what a curious metaphor indeed.” 

–Eve Wood

Charlie James Gallery
Luke Butler
In Color And Black And White
969 Chung King Rd,
Los Angeles, CA 90012
May 31 – July 19, 2014