About

Kathy Butterly creates ceramic sculpture and yet she combines it with a painters’ intuitive process of experimentation of color through glazes. Her latest body of work, made over the past 12 months in her New York studio, pushes her practice in a new direction— slightly larger clay forms are in evidence, to give herself, Butterly says, “a bigger canvas with which to work.”

Butterly has chosen to work with a restricted scale for over 30 years. “I find a strength in the intimate,” she explains, “I find power in scale shifts within the works, I enjoy making works that are not rushed and demand a …