Linda Butti

www.lindabutti.com

Linda Butti was born in Brooklyn, and has been an artist since she was two. She is the third generation of artists in her family, as her grandfather was a  builder  and her father was a craftsman who fixed accordions and made bellows for them. “My father was amazing…he’d take plain heavy cardboard and through process after process, change them into gorgeously decorated accordion bellows…As a child, I always watched him, fascinated by their transformation, I was mesmerized- and hooked on art!”

Receiving her MFA in 1975, she began her career of painting and exhibiting and was selected for her first juried show by the Brooklyn Museum in 1977. To date, she has had twenty-two solo shows in the NYC metropolitan area, countless numbers of group exhibitions, nationally and internationally, and has won awards and grants.  Many of her pieces are placed in key collections and just recently, "Cherry Tree" was purchased by Yuko Nii for her collection at the WAH center. Numerous public, corporate and private collections own her work. Her recent solo show was reviewed and can be read at silive.com.

Ms Butti is also a firm believer in education and is an Adj. Prof of Art,  lecturing  on art history, teaching studio courses  and guest curating exhibitions in the metropolitan area.

“I am very fortunate to have been able to forge a career in something that is at the very essence of my being.   Art is my being.”