Charlie James Gallery is pleased to present Luke Butler: Color Pictures, the artist’s third solo exhibition with the gallery. San Francisco-based Butler draws inspiration from pop culture and the history of film and television in luscious, evocative paintings that invite the viewer into imagined cinematic worlds. By transforming images from his lived experience – natural and urban landscapes, objects saved or remembered – into paintings heavy with narrative potential, Butler plays with the tension between reality and artifice that is inherent to film. These invented bits of pop cultural history feel as if they have always existed, as if we should know what comes next. But however potently Butler’s Color Pictures suggest action, they never reveal it, standing continually on…