Ken Butler: Hybrid Visions
June 9 – August 26, 2007
Ken Butler is a highly regarded mixed media artist who creates inventive and humorous hybrid instruments from found objects, including film-reel guitars, cowboy boot violins, axe cellos, Styrofoam-packaging pianos, and related artworks. Organized in collaboration with The Art Gym at Marylhurst University, the exhibition features approximately 60 works on loan from the artist, who was raised in Portland but has lived in New York for the past 25 years.