Artist Reception: Thursday, November 6 at 7:00 p.m.

Basel Reception: Tuesday, December 2 at 7:00 p.m.

Butter Gallery is pleased to present “Departure,” a series of new work by Miami-based artist Yuri Tuma, on view during Miami art fair week, opening on November 6 at 7:00 p.m. with an artist reception. While the works in “Departure” are, like most of Tuma’s oeuvre, re-shaped and re-contextualized photographs, they represent a literal departure from the intricate, ornate mosaics of his earlier collections. With this Basel exhibition, the artist explores materiality, motion and color.

Reflecting the delicately geometric pieces of Sol Lewitt or Victor Vasarely and the Minimalist Op Art Movement, the large-scale chromatic works of “Departure” take their origins—cell-phone-photographed items, spaces, and colors—to their most simplified conclusion: clean shapes, simple lines, and an ephemeral quality subject to the changes of light and mood.

The symmetry and patterns found in his images are the result of both the technology used to create them—mobile software—and, more significantly, Tuma’s psychologically meditative process. The creation of his work is ultimately transformative, used for mental centering and inner quiet, from the source photography to its visual paring-down. This spirit reverberates in the work itself.

Events are free and open to the public.