Jack Butcher — Selected work
Jack Butcher makes conceptual art exploring how people decide what to trust, what to value, and who gets to decide.
His works use images, objects and rules. In some, a collector’s choice changes what the work becomes.
Selected work
2026
Know Your Collector
Synthetic portraits shaped and selected by collectors, linking a public choice to an invented face.
2026
Wrappers
Generated images of torn card packs, ranked by the opening and distributed as collectible wrappers.
2026
Economy of Words
Words become graded cards whose auction prices and chosen material forms reflect different judgments of value.
2024-2026
Work, Luck, Play
Silver sculptures and a trading game distinguish effort, predetermined outcomes and choices made together.
2025
Stock
Campbell’s appears as a stock-market chart rather than a soup can, across six generative treatments.
2025
Self Checkout
A participatory installation where the amount paid changes a receipt’s length and the artist’s displayed balance.
2025
Gas Wars
Generative aircraft simulations that make survival, missing information and the decision to collect part of one system.
2025
Lemonade Stand
Nine poster-like images use the language of a lemonade stand to examine a market formed around online publishing.
2025
Full Set
Twenty-seven editions become parts of one grid through a collective threshold described by the artist.
2025
Hardware
Digital images borrow the appearance of physical verification to question how provenance is made credible.
2024
Work
Four silver hands trace a movement from physical labor to the action of a cursor.
2024
Latent
Generated images are paired with digital negatives and darkroom prints, making the relation between source and print visible.
2024
1 of 1 of ?
One image is issued as a unique work and an open edition, separating visual sameness from edition status.
2023–
Opepen Edition
An evolving collection in which artists propose images and collectors choose which releases to join.
2023
Checks
A work about verification in which collectors decide which images survive, combine or disappear.
2023
Trademark
A generative collection constructs images from the registered-trademark symbol, separating a sign of ownership from any one brand.
2023
Signature
Generative marks translate the victory burnout in motorsport into a system of controlled variation.
2023
Checks Elements
Monoprints paired with digital works, carrying Checks’ question of verification into a physical process.
2023
Oviators
The Opepen silhouette becomes wearable eyewear, linking a circulating image with a physical object.
2019–
Visualize Value
An ongoing practice of using constrained images and short texts to make relationships and assumptions visible.
2021–
VV Rare
Unique digital works examine ownership, belief and the language of online markets through individual images.
2021
VV Editions
Digital works use different edition sizes to make distribution and scarcity visible alongside their images.