“Thinking Collage as Method for an Urban Commons, a Conversation with Erin Butler,” Jade Mandrake GEM-Board Discussions — Hacking Urban Boundaries | HUB 2022

Treasures of New York: Snug Harbor Cultural Center, WLIW All Arts Public TV, premiere air date 3/30/2022 (cameo appearances)
Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden | Treasures of New York | WLIW

Portrait of Gene: An Artist, A Tribe & A Time exhibition catalog, essay and photo contributor (pp 33-34) 2020
Portrait of Gene by Judith Altruda | Blurb Book

Women in the Arts Foundation (wiaf.org)

solo exhibitions

Berkeley Gallery, Berkeley College, New York, NY: Summer Dream, curator Robert Keiber 2011

Joseph P. Addabbo Federal Building lobby/Social Security Administration, Jamaica, NY: Honoring Women’s History Month 2002

John Spellman Library Gallery, Grays Harbor College, Aberdeen, WA 1979 and 1985

selected group exhibitions

Field Gallery at the Field Library, Peekskil, NY Creative Journey 2023

Ceres Gallery, New York, NY 71-21 Celebrate Five Decades of WIA Women in the Arts Foundation, Inc. 2021

Newhouse Galleries, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY–Snug Harbor Studio Artists Summer Show 2019

Citi Center for Culture Community Showcases, Long Island City, NY 2018

Samuel J. Wood Library, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY–A Quartet of Solo Artists 2017

NYPL Riverside Community Gallery, New York, NY–WIA Doing the Math: Artists Reframe Geometry (Curator) 2016

Colonel’s Row Bldg 410, Governor’s Island, NY–People to People Island to Island 2014

310Art, Asheville, NC–WIA River of Art: from New York to Asheville 2011 and 2014

Loretto Memorial Library, St. John’s University, Staten Island, NY–Island of Art 2 2013

3 PERSON Kingsborough Community College Art Gallery, Brooklyn, NY–Women’s Work, Curator Linda Butti 2011

Callahan Gallery, St. Francis College, Brooklyn, NY–WIA SeptemberShow 2011 ‘September Show’ Art Exhibit at St. Francis | (wordpress.com)

Holiday Inn Manhattan View, Long Island City, NY–Trans-positions: Celebrating the Centennial of the Queensboro Bridge, Curator Judith Tolnick Champa 2009

Creative Spirit Arts Center, Potsdam, NY–WIA Due North from New York City 2008

Venezuelan Center Gallery, New York, NY 2007

2 PERSON Hudson Opera House, Hudson, NY–New Paintings: Gabe Brown Erin Butler 2007

QCC Art Galleries, Queensborough Community College CUNY, Bayside, NY– LIC Artists 2006-2007

NYPL Staten Island Branches, Staten Island, NY–Book Arts Showcase, Curator Betty Bressi 2006

Kimdaejung Convention Center, Gwangju, Korea–2005 Artists of Mudeung, Korea, Japan, America 2005

Julia de Burgos Cultural Center, Taller Boricua Galleries, New York, NY–Women in the Arts 2005

Office of Manhattan Borough President C. Virginia Fields, Municipal Building, New York, NY 2005

New York Mercantile Exchange, New York, NY–Organization of Independent Artists, Curator Kanitra Fletcher 2004

Queens Theatre in the Park, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, NY–Long Island City Artists 2004

Tokyo National Museum of Art, Japan and Seoul, Korea–OUGI International Fan Art Show 2001 and 2003

Bronx River Art Center, Bronx, NY & Fairleigh Dickinson University, Teaneck, NJ–911 Show Artists Respond 2002-2003

Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Artists Access, Staten Island, NY–Orihon & More: Books by Artists, Curator Helen Levin 2002

Ashforth Warburg Downtown, New York, NY–Impressions of New York 2000

Canajoharie Library and Art Galleries, Canajoharie, NY–Women in the Arts 2000

Chubb Group of Insurance Companies, Atrium Gallery, Warren, NJ, 1997

Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Steinhardt Conservatory, Brooklyn, NY 1994 and 1996

Schering-Plough Corporation, Madison, NJ–WIA Visions of Reality 1995

Art In General, New York, NY–Little Things, Curator Holly Block 1994

MTA Arts for Transit Exhibition Space, New York, NY 1990 and 1994

Queens College Art Center CUNY Rosenthal Library Atrium, Flushing, NY 1991-1992

3-PERSON Main Gallery at Old Boise, Boise, ID–Of Earth and Spirit 1991

3-PERSON Straus Gallery, New York, NY–Space and Light 1990

Haenah-Kent Gallery, New York, NY–Not Mass Media 1990

P.S.1 Museum of Contemporary Art, Long Island City, NY–China, June 4… 1990

Nabisco Brands Gallery, East Hanover, NJ–Women’s Visions: Themes from Nature 1989

Ceres Gallery/NY Feminist Art Institute, New York, NY–NEA-funded 6-week project Collaborations 1987

No Se No, New York, NY–The Rivington School Curator Toyo Tsuchiya, 1985

Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY–Park Slope Artists, Curator Richard Waller 1985

2-PERSON Gray Gull Gallery, Grayland, WA 1985

selected bibliography

Eldridge & Co. CUNY Television, New York, NY “Women in the Arts” interview with Ronnie Eldridge, premiere air date 1/13/2016

Citizen-Times, Asheville, NC–Carol Motsinger: “Asheville exhibit celebrates history of women artist activists” 4/12/2011

The Independent, Hillsdale, NY: “HOH exhibits diverse interpretations of nature” 7/20/2007

Register-Star, Hudson, NY: “HOH to present new paintings by Brown, Butler” 7/20/2007

Art in America, Elisa Decker: “Yoshiki Araki at the Asian American Arts Center” May 2007

Daily News, New York, NY–Mila Andre: Museo Drive Review: “A Garden Sprouts on Canvas” 8/4/1994

New York Newsday, New York, NY–Renee Gardner: “What & Where” section 8/21/1994

Daily Record, Morris County, NJ–Marion Filler: “Women artists don’t need special treatment” 2/26/1989

Artists Against Apartheid–DCTV documentary, aired Oct. 1984 Abyssinian Baptist Church, United Nations & Amos Enos Gallery–Touch Theatre, Ltd, 1984

The New York Times, New York, NY–Grace Glueck: Review 4/11/1980

education

Art Students League of New York, New York, NY, Certificate of Fine Arts, Painting
Studied with Knox Martin, Richard Pousette-Dart, Frank O’Cain, Michael Ponce de Leon, Michael Pellettieri, et al

New York Feminist Art Institute, NYC

Madison Area Technical College, Madison, WI, Associate of Arts, Commercial Art

University of Washington, Seattle, WA

Grays Harbor College, Aberdeen, WA, Associate of Arts, Liberal Arts & English

the day I married Art

It was a silly joke to break up a quiet day, a procession through the halls of the Art Students League to the cafeteria.

I, the “bride,” wore a canvas train carried by a young model-artist. A few random witnesses joined us in a laugh.