Ivan Butorac

Untitled Cat

2009

Ivan Butorac originally from Serbia and now living in Los Angeles, California love for art started at an early age- he was heavily influenced by his parents who are both established artists - he remembers coming home from school with friends and watching their reaction after seeing his parents art that was everywhere in the house, it was magical and he discovered the power art and color have on human emotion and mood. Butorac studied at the Arts Academy in Belgrade,and has experimented with a multitude of media. Later in 2014 he spent a year working for the artist Saint Clair Cemin in his studio in Brooklyn, NY. Seeing what is, then dreaming and creating a space for this new reality is what Butorac has done since he was a child. Butorac's work sits between meaning and no meaning; abstract and non-abstract, also geometric. He is not interested in conveying a message, but more interested in posing questions:What does this look like? Does it remind me of something? How does this make me feel? For him art is about creating a space for the viewer. It is the discovery of one's own possibilities. It's about freedom, self expression, following your interests and going beyond the rational mind.