BIO

Annie Kammerer Butrus’ (b. Evanston, Illinois) is an award-winning artist with an M.F.A. in Painting and Printmaking from the University of Notre Dame and a B.A. from Wellesley College, where she studied architecture, landscape architecture and studio art. She exhibits her work in major cities, galleries and academic institutions. Notable public and private collections, such as the Children's Hospital of Alabama, MD Anderson Cancer Center, the Dotdash Meredith Collection and the Wellesley College Rare Book Arts Collection hold her work. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Art Papers, and The Birmingham News have reviewed her work. She was awarded an Alabama State Arts Council Grant and was given the “Emerging Artist Award” by the Magic City Art Connection in Birmingham. Butrus has taught at the University of Notre Dame, Space One Eleven, and the Birmingham Museum of Art. She lives and works in Birmingham, Alabama, where she conducts her Color Response Community Art Project and is a member of Ground Floor Contemporary.

Realized primarily through painting, Butrus’ artistic practice focuses on the intersection of science, landscape, and memory. Her interest lies in how mapping shapes our idea of place and belonging, how to document change and time, and how often the source of our interaction with nature is from the inside looking out. Her process employs many series of latex resist and layers of opaque and translucent acrylic paint, applied in succession to create lines and boundaries. Labor intensive, the resist application records the act of painting, allows complete control of the painted surface and then, once removed, transforms the painting over and over, creating positive and negative voids.