Kathy Butterly Ceramics Biography

2013 2015 the weight of color shoshana wayne gallery 2015 enter tibor de nagy gallery 2014 additional works.

Kathy butterly ceramics biography.

Butterly received her bachelor of fine arts from moore college of art in philadelphia pennsylvania in 1986 and her master of fine arts from university of california davis in 1990. 100 years of american ceramics museum of fine arts boston pretty raw. Kathy butterly from her east village new york studio kathy butterly creates small ceramic sculptures that are cartoonish beautiful and grotesque. Each sculpture begins with the same cast vessel form.

Kathy butterly 1963 new york times writer ken johnson described kathy butterly s small forms as goofy yet irresistibly enticing little odalisque s 1 starting with a simple shape butterly pokes pulls adds until the form becomes what it is meant to be a process she calls a rorschach test combined. Impulses that form clay institute of contemporary art philadelphia pa 2007 kathy butterly yerba buena center for the arts san francisco ca. Kathy butterly and jill bonovitz locks gallery philadelphia pa 2009 big gulp shoshana wayne gallery santa monica ca solo exhibition dirt on delight. Kathy butterly s beautiful and odd sculptures are the result of a literal manipulation of traditional ceramic forms.

She uses traditional ceramic forms as her starting point referring to these. Nature sculpture abstraction and clay. Kathy butterly has created distinct evocative sculptures for more than two decades contributing to and expanding the tradition of studio ceramics. After and around helen frankenthaler rose art museum brandeis university waltham ma.

Works on paper. She lives and works in new york city. Kathy butterly and ann king lagos moore college of art design philadelphia pa. The artist creates the sculptures in response to her surroundings and topics of the day.

Butterly s work consists of multi layered glazed ceramic sculptures presented on pedestals or. Image gallery 2016 2017 quality of line the armory show 2017 additional work. The finished form is created by twisting pinching building and otherwise manipulating the perfect classic vessel form to create unique pieces. 404 e 14 tibor de nagy gallery new york visionary women.

Through her practice butterly engages with concepts ranging from materiality and line to the history of the vessel. Kathy butterly is an american sculptor born in amityville new york in 1963.