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Game Art: Butt Johnson's game drawings (2008-2009)

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Matteo

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image from www.buttjohnson.com Butt Johnson | Starchitects | 2009- 2010 | 30 x 40 inches | Ballpoint on paper image from www.buttjohnson.com Butt Johnson | Untitled I | 2010 | 13 1/2 x 37 1/2 inches | Ballpoint on paper image from www.buttjohnson.com Butt Johnson | Urbs Aeterna | 2009 | 11 x 8.5 inches | Ballpoint on paper image from www.buttjohnson.com Butt Johnson | Study for Untitled (Eh Feck) | 2008 | edition of 10 | 11 1/4" x 6 1/2"| 1 color lithograph | Printed by Phil Sanders image from www.buttjohnson.com

Butt Johnson | Various Controllers, Maps, and a Robotic Accessory | 2007 | 26" x 20" | Ballpoint on paper image from www.crggallery.com"Butt Johnson’s elaborately detailed ballpoint pen drawings combine complex ornamentation from a range of historical repositories with various cultural iconography; some recent and some more antiquated, but together forming a compounded visual language with powerful and current significance. Such subjects as the popular “SETI” screensaver (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) within a romantic context of unrequited love and the menagerie of contemporary writers and historical figures all sharing the name “Dave” (“Postmodern Daves”) are among the diverse themes in Johnson’s work. Other cultural references often specific to the artist’s generation, such as Super Mario Bros. are combined with art-historical motifs. Johnson has also focused on the grim but again intensely detailed renderings of the aftermath of car-bombs, presumably in the middle-east. These twisted and charred remains of automotive steel have a floral quality, as if delicate and withered flower petals often ensconced in the repeating webs of hybrid Islamic patterning." (CRG GAllery, Chelsea, New York)link: Butt JohnsonButt Johnson's work is on display at CRG (548 West 22nd Street, New York) until Febraury 19. Click here for more information about his solo show, "The Name of the Rose".Submitted by Matteo Bittanti (via Kotaku)

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