about linda butti
A New York City native, artist Linda Butti was raised in the Bath Beach section of Brooklyn, NY. Her grandfather, an
immigrant from Italy, was a builder and her father a craftsman. Linda is the third generation artist in her family.
"I remember spending a good deal of my childhood days 'hanging"out the window and watching the building going on
around me. Ours was a neighborhood in transition, from blocks of marshes and sea grass to newly built brick homes.
I loved watching the workmen lay down the bricks in the thick viscous cement, and then build them up row by row
until a wall emerged. In the evening, I'd get to watch my father work in the basement, making gorgeous accordion
bellows .....He'd take a plain piece of thick cardboard and through process after process, magically make a highly
decorative four sided bellow appear....! I loved the smell of the glue he'd have cooking on the two burner stove and
watching him cut strips of colored sateen on a glue board into fabulous stripes and attach them to the bellows......"
Linda Butti's work has been shown in twenty solo exhibitions in spaces that include The Berkeley Gallery, NYC., Elaine
Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton,NY; Snug Harbor Cultural Center, SI,NY; SUNY Institute of Technology, Utica, NY; Fulton
St Gallery, Troy, NY; Whitehall Gallery, NYC; St John's University, NYC; and the Mohawk Valley Center for the Arts, Little
Falls, NY. In addition she has been included in over 100 juried group shows in venues as diverse as the Brooklyn
Museum, Korea Invitational Exhibits, the Canajoharie Art Museum and Library, and the National Arts Club, NYC.
Her artwork is included in 32 public collections, including NBC Studios, Brenau University, Sterling Drug Inc, Mitsubishi
Capital, The Duran Group, The Kupperheimer Corporation, and The Medical Examiners' Offices of the City of New York.
In addition, her work is in numerous private collections.
Currently, Linda is an Associate Professor of Art in the NYC metropolitan area, where she also gives demonstrations and
lectures, curates exhibits, and judges shows. The recipient of numerous art awards, as well as seven NYSCA grants, she
also was elected Woman of the Year by the National Organization of Italian American Women (1992) and is included in
Who's Who of American Women and Who's Who of American Art. She is a member of the American Society of Contemporary
Artists and is the Co-cordinator of Women in the Arts Foundation, Inc. She received her Masters in Fine Art in 1975 ,
Brooklyn College (CUNY), and studied in the Masters of Art History Program at Rutgers University,1980-82. Currently, she
works in oil paint, mixed media and digital art.
You can make an appointment to see her work at her studio in Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY
by calling (718)-727-4539.
A New York City native, artist Linda Butti was raised in the Bath Beach section of Brooklyn, NY. Her grandfather, an
immigrant from Italy, was a builder and her father a craftsman. Linda is the third generation artist in her family.
"I remember spending a good deal of my childhood days 'hanging"out the window and watching the building going on
around me. Ours was a neighborhood in transition, from blocks of marshes and sea grass to newly built brick homes.
I loved watching the workmen lay down the bricks in the thick viscous cement, and then build them up row by row
until a wall emerged. In the evening, I'd get to watch my father work in the basement, making gorgeous accordion
bellows .....He'd take a plain piece of thick cardboard and through process after process, magically make a highly
decorative four sided bellow appear....! I loved the smell of the glue he'd have cooking on the two burner stove and
watching him cut strips of colored sateen on a glue board into fabulous stripes and attach them to the bellows......"
Linda Butti's work has been shown in twenty solo exhibitions in spaces that include The Berkeley Gallery, NYC., Elaine
Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton,NY; Snug Harbor Cultural Center, SI,NY; SUNY Institute of Technology, Utica, NY; Fulton
St Gallery, Troy, NY; Whitehall Gallery, NYC; St John's University, NYC; and the Mohawk Valley Center for the Arts, Little
Falls, NY. In addition she has been included in over 100 juried group shows in venues as diverse as the Brooklyn
Museum, Korea Invitational Exhibits, the Canajoharie Art Museum and Library, and the National Arts Club, NYC.
Her artwork is included in 32 public collections, including NBC Studios, Brenau University, Sterling Drug Inc, Mitsubishi
Capital, The Duran Group, The Kupperheimer Corporation, and The Medical Examiners' Offices of the City of New York.
In addition, her work is in numerous private collections.
Currently, Linda is an Associate Professor of Art in the NYC metropolitan area, where she also gives demonstrations and
lectures, curates exhibits, and judges shows. The recipient of numerous art awards, as well as seven NYSCA grants, she
also was elected Woman of the Year by the National Organization of Italian American Women (1992) and is included in
Who's Who of American Women and Who's Who of American Art. She is a member of the American Society of Contemporary
Artists and is the Co-cordinator of Women in the Arts Foundation, Inc. She received her Masters in Fine Art in 1975 ,
Brooklyn College (CUNY), and studied in the Masters of Art History Program at Rutgers University,1980-82. Currently, she
works in oil paint, mixed media and digital art.
You can make an appointment to see her work at her studio in Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY
by calling (718)-727-4539.
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