Philip Buller
Vulnerability
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March 3 – April 16, 2010
Opening Reception: Wednesday, March 3, 2010, 5:30 - 7:30 PM

“Painting, like any process that involves remaking oneself, requires risk. And risk makes us vulnerable. In this group of paintings my intention is to explore vulnerability as both a concept and an experience.” - Philip Buller

Andrea Schwartz Gallery is pleased to announce a solo exhibition for Philip Buller opening Wednesday, March 3, 2010. Buller’s new body of work explores his experience with freeing his rational psyche and surrendering to his unconscious mind. Many of the paintings, which are a blend of realism and abstraction, depict nude women wading in water. In Chrysalis, titled for the stage at which a caterpillar morphs into a butterfly, white sheets drape loosely around the women’s bodies leaving them partially covered yet exposed. They appear to be in transition, as if experiencing a rebirth, or embarking on a new chapter in life. Here, Buller underscores the delicacy and vulnerability that lie in all of life’s transformations.

Philip Buller has exhibited at the Elliott Louis Gallery, Vancouver, BC; California Museum of Art, Santa Rosa, CA; Susan Street Fine Art, Solana Beach, CA; Bank of America Headquarters, San Francisco, CA; and Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA. Buller received his MFA from the California College of Arts and Crafts (now California College of the Arts) in 1994. This is his eighth exhibition at Andrea Schwartz Gallery.