Kathy Butterly "Pantyhose & Morandi"
Tibor de Nagy Gallery
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This exhibition of new ceramic sculptures and works on paper by Kathy Butterly is the artist's fourth with the gallery and will comprise fourteen new sculptures that were completed over the last year. Known for her diminutive (but large in scale) ceramic vessels, the works in this exhibition measure no taller than seven inches.
In a shift from her earlier sculptures which were often brightly colored with glazes of electric pinks, blues, and oranges, this new body of work has a restrained palette, marked by subtle shifts in tone. The artist attributes this change to the recent Morandi exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum and her response to it. As she completed the sculptures and grouped them on a shelf, she came to recognize a new cohesion that did not previously exist when her colors had a broader range. In essence, the pieces came together and became still lifes in their own right.
[Image: Kathy Butterly "Burnt Sugar" (2010) clay, glaze 4 7/8 x 3 3/4 x 2 7/8 in.]
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Schedule
from April 30, 2010 to June 11, 2010