Nature sculpture abstraction and clay.
Kathy butterly ceramics biography.
Impulses that form clay institute of contemporary art philadelphia pa 2007 kathy butterly yerba buena center for the arts san francisco ca.
Works on paper.
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.
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.
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.
Through her practice butterly engages with concepts ranging from materiality and line to the history of the vessel.
Kathy butterly is known for her elegantly designed and decorated small scale porcelain sculptures.
Kathy butterly and ann king lagos moore college of art design philadelphia pa.
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.
100 years of american ceramics museum of fine arts boston pretty raw.
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.
Kathy butterly and jill bonovitz locks gallery philadelphia pa 2009 big gulp shoshana wayne gallery santa monica ca solo exhibition dirt on delight.
After and around helen frankenthaler rose art museum brandeis university waltham ma.
Kathy butterly is an american sculptor born in amityville new york in 1963.
The artist creates the sculptures in response to her surroundings and topics of the day.
Kathy butterly has created distinct evocative sculptures for more than two decades contributing to and expanding the tradition of studio ceramics.
She lives and works in new york city.
Kathy butterly from her east village new york studio kathy butterly creates small ceramic sculptures that are cartoonish beautiful and grotesque.
The finished form is created by twisting pinching building and otherwise manipulating the perfect classic vessel form to create unique pieces.
Each sculpture begins with the same cast vessel form.
