Kathy Butterly Ceramics

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 ceramics.

Kathy butterly makes ceramics that are wobbly distorted crumpled bent and twisted. Each one of her creations are as unique as the other and she really manages to expose the properties of clay. 100 years of american ceramics museum of fine arts boston pretty raw. 2013 2015 the weight of color shoshana wayne gallery 2015 enter tibor de nagy gallery 2014 additional works.

After and around helen frankenthaler rose art museum brandeis university waltham ma. Butterly earned a bfa from moore college of art and an mfa from the university of california davis. Image gallery 2016 2017 quality of line the armory show 2017 additional work. Kathy butterly is an american sculptor born in amityville new york in 1963.

For more than two decades kathy butterly has created striking evocative sculptures that play between figuration and abstraction contributing to and expanding the field of contemporary ceramics. Feb 22 2019 explore linda siebert s board kathy butterly on pinterest. She lives and works in new york city. In 2019 a mid career survey consisting of 55 sculptures and works on paper were on view at the manetti shrem museum of art.

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. See more ideas about kathy ceramic sculpture ceramics. Sculptor kathy butterly thinks of herself as a painter who happens to work with clay three dimensionally she is known for abstract ceramic vessels ranging in size from small to nearly five feet tall whose twisting forms with pinched openings resemble shrunken hybrids of alien life forms and domestic objects from which something is oozing leaking or dipping as described by.

Butterly makes the clay ooze drip and leak and after firing it in that state can create some unusual biomorphic shapes. Kathy butterly has created distinct evocative sculptures for more than two decades contributing to and expanding the tradition of studio ceramics. She uses traditional ceramic forms as her starting point referring to these. Works on paper.

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. 404 e 14 tibor de nagy gallery new york visionary women. Kathy butterly s beautiful and odd sculptures are the result of a literal manipulation of traditional ceramic forms. Through her practice butterly engages with concepts ranging from materiality and line to the history of the vessel.