Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis
September 3, 2021 - February 27, 2022
Kathy Butterly finds virtuosity and rigor in the small. She pushes each of her ceramic sculptures to the limits of its material possibilities. Hers is a painstaking process of firing porcelain, a medium that can be both luscious and unforgiving. Butterly presents two major bodies of work at CAM. Out of one, many displays Butterly’s imaginative powers and technical brilliance applied to a single pint-glass form over many years, producing astonishing variations. The sculptures are anthropomorphic, playful, intricate, provocative, and barely five inches tall. Whereas the smaller cup forms reference the body, a new series of work alludes to the human head. In Headscapes, Butterly takes formal variation to a grander scale. Including ten new works created especially for CAM, this recent series of sculptures make room for what Butterly refers to as “journeys of the mind,” entering a psychological realm of unease.
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Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis
3750 Washington Blvd.
Saint Louis, MO