Born in the small town of New Iberia, Louisiana, Bryson Boutte emerged a surrealist painter and muralist. He attended the University of Louisiana at Lafayette for 3 years in their Computer Art & Animation program, in which his efficiency with Adobe programs aided in his development and how that would translate into his painted works. In 2014 Boutte was involved in Exhibit.BE, a mural exhibition highlighting the story of an abandoned blighted area of New Orleans. In 2016, Art Share L.A. selected him for their Fall showcase and since then he’s shown in Texas, Georgia and Florida with works sold across the U.S. He’s also been a part of the Walls Project’s MLK Day Mural Project since 2015, a yearly community beautification project in Baton Rouge.
Boutte's work captures his subjects and brings aspects of their thoughts, their stories, to the forefront. Through a collage-like style of painting using acrylics, these pieces bring seemingly unrelated subjects side by side. Within that juxtaposition, a new understanding of the subject emerges, a perspective on their story is unveiled. Each piece is personal to the subject, accompanied by an answer from said subject to a question presented at the moment of inception, providing further insight and understanding to the person captured.
“He did the whole thing freehand, that’s rare that you see that.”
