Kathy butterly makes ceramics that are wobbly distorted crumpled bent and twisted.
Kathy butterly ceramics.
Nature sculpture abstraction and clay.
She lives and works in new york city.
Kathy butterly has created distinct evocative sculptures for more than two decades contributing to and expanding the tradition of studio ceramics.
Through her practice butterly engages with concepts ranging from materiality and line to the history of the vessel.
After and around helen frankenthaler rose art museum brandeis university waltham ma.
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.
Kathy butterly and ann king lagos moore college of art design philadelphia pa.
In 2019 a mid career survey consisting of 55 sculptures and works on paper were on view at the manetti shrem museum of art.
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Kathy butterly s beautiful and odd sculptures are the result of a literal manipulation of traditional ceramic forms.
2013 2015 the weight of color shoshana wayne gallery 2015 enter tibor de nagy gallery 2014 additional works.
Kathy butterly na 2017 is an artist who lives and works in new york city and searsmont maine.
Butterly makes the clay ooze drip and leak and after firing it in that state can create some unusual biomorphic shapes.
Butterly earned a bfa from moore college of art and an mfa from the university of california davis.
Like george ohr and ken price who butterly cites as key influences she is an artist whose medium is clay and whose considerable ambitions are not.
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Image gallery 2016 2017 quality of line the armory show 2017 additional work.
Each one of her creations are as unique as the other and she really manages to expose the properties of clay.
404 e 14 tibor de nagy gallery new york visionary women.
She uses traditional ceramic forms as her starting point referring to these.
Works on paper.
Kathy butterly is an american sculptor born in amityville new york in 1963.
Butterly s work consists of multi layered glazed ceramic sculptures presented on pedestals or.
Her latest exhibition of new work titled thought presence on view now at james cohan gallery in new york presents 24 new vessels that demand a full 360 degree exploration.