“Multiplicity” In-Gallery Experience | Featuring Tay Butler
Tay Butler
Tschabalala Self, Sprewell, 2020, fabric, thread, painted canvas, silk, jeans, painted newsprint, stamp, photographic transfer on paper, and acrylic on canvas, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, gift, image courtesy of the artist; Pilar Corrias, London; and Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich. © Tschabalala Self
April 6, 2024
Houston-based artist Tay Butler, whose work is featured in Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collage, leads a conversation in the exhibition galleries. This guided experience explores the landscape of contemporary Black collage, the artist’s work and inspirations, and perspectives on the work of mentors and peers.
Plan Your Visit
- This program is included with Museum admission.
- Attendance is offered on a first-come, first-served basis and capped at 25 guests. Meet in the lobby of the Law Building. The exhibition is located on the upper level.
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About the Speaker
Tay Butler is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Houston. After retiring from the US Army and abandoning an engineering career to search for purpose, Butler reignited a rich appreciation for Black history and a deep obsession with the Black archive. Using past and present images to create a historically layered body of work, Butler reorients cultural material from the ever-growing Black experience. His solo exhibitions include RE.Migrant I & II at Project Row Houses and We Are Still Searching at the Louise J. Moran Fine Arts Courtyard in Houston. His work has been featured in group exhibitions at ArtPace, San Antonio and the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, among other institutions. Butler currently teaches at San Jacinto College.
All Learning and Interpretation programs at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, receive generous support from Macey and Harry Reasoner; the Claire and Theodore Morse Foundation; and the Texas Commission on the Arts. Endowment funds are provided by the Louise Jarrett Moran Bequest; Caroline Wiess Law; Windgate Foundation; the William Randolph Hearst Foundation; Cyvia and Melvyn Wolff; the National Endowment for the Humanities; the Fondren Foundation; BMC Software, Inc.; the Wallace Foundation; the Neal Myers and Ken Black Children’s Art Fund; Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Ballard; Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Tate; the Eleanor and Frank Freed Foundation; Virginia and Ira Jackson; the Favrot Fund; CFP Foundation; Neiman Marcus Youth Arts Education; gifts in memory of John Wynne; gifts in memory of Peter Lotz; and gifts in honor of Beth Schneider.
“Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collage” was organized by the Frist Art Museum, Nashville, Tennessee.
Support for the national exhibition tour is provided by generous grants from the Henry Luce Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Generous support is provided by:
Bettie Cartwright
Texas Capital
Jereann and Holland Chaney
JBD Foundation
Lisa and Barron Wallace
Michael W. Dale
DIR Inc./Drs. Russell H. and Rosalind C. Jackson
Jay Jones and Terry Wayne Jones
Merinda Watkins-Martin and Reginald Martin
Ann and Alton McDowell