KATHY BUTTERLY - The Marks Project

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KATHY BUTTERLY
EDUCATION
't990 MFA, University of California, Davis, CA
1986 BFA, Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2012
Lots of little love atfairs, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2010
Pantyhose & Morandi, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY
2009
Big Gulp, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2007
Between a Rock and a Soft Place, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY
Kathy Butterly, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2005
Freaks and Beauties. Opener 10: Kathy Butterly The Frances Young Tang Teaching
Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY
Body Language, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2OO4 Fall into Spring, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY
2003
Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2OO2 Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY
2001
Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY
2000
Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA
Byron C. Cohen Gallery for Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
1999
Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY
1998
Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY
1997
Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY
1996
Albers Fine Art Gallery, Memphis, TN
1995
Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY
1994
Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY
1993
The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA
1992
Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012
Figuring Color: Kathy Butterly. Felix Gonzalez-Torres. Roy McMakin. Sue Williams,
ICA Boston, MA (catalogue)
2011
Contemporary Clay, RH Gallery, New York, NY
Uberyummy: Contemporary Confections and Obiects ol Desire, Robert and Frances
Museum of Art, California State University, San Bernardino, CA
< Object > <lmage , Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY
The JewelThief, The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY
(catalogue)
2010
Brayman and Butterly, Joseloff Gallery, University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT
The JewelThief, The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY
Kathy Butterly and Jill Bonovitz, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2009
Prettv is as Prettv Does, SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM
Dirt on Delight, lnstitute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
Dirt on Delight, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
2006
The 181st Annual, NationalAcademy, New York, NY
Your Beauty's Gold is Clay, Alexandre Gallery, New York, NY
2005
New Horizon of Ceramic Art, 3rd World Ceramic Biennial 2005 Korea, lcheon, Korea
Fired at Davis, lris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for VisualArts, Stamford University, CA
lnvitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, American Academy of Arts and
Letters, New York, NY
2004
Carnegie lnternational. Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
Couples, Center for Maine Contemporary Art Rockport, ME
The Eve Aesthetic, Memorial Union Gallery, University of California, Davis, CA
Standino Room Onlv 2004 Scrioos 60th Ceramic Annual, Ruth Chandler Williamson
Gallery, Scripps College, Claremont, CA
Curators' lntuition, lnstitute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art, Portland, ME
2003
Kanazawa World Craft Forum, Kanazawa, Japan
Verv Familiar: Celebratino 50 Years of Collectino Decorative Arts. Carneoie Museum
of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
Works On Paper: Variations and Themes, Pace University, Pleasantville, NY
Re-lnventing Pleasure, University Art Gallery, San Diego State University,
San Diego, CA
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2002
Byron C. Cohen Gallery for Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
2001
The 57th Scripps Ceramic Annual, Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, Claremont, CA
Figstract Explosionism, Bridgewater/Lustberg & Blumenfeld Gallery, New York, NY
15th Anniversary Exhibition, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, NY, NY
2000
Ceramic National 2000, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY;travels to Samual P.
Harn Museum, Gainesville, FL; Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, lL; Crocker Art
Museum, Sacramento, CA
Byron C. Cohen Gallery for Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
Selections from the Allan Chasanoff Collection, Mint Museum of Craft + Design,
Charlotte, NC
Franklin Parrasch Gallery, NY, NY
Defining Craft l, The American Craft Museum, New York, NY
1999
Pioneers and Terriers: Colenbrander. Ohr & USA Clay Today, Museum Het
Paleis on Lange Voorhout, The Hague, Netherlands
The Art of Craft: Contemporary Works from the Saxe Collection, M.H. de Young
Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA
1997
Forms and Transformations of Clay, Queens Borough Public Library Gallery, Jamaica,
NY
1996
New York. NY: Clay, Norkenfjeldexke Kunstindustrimuseum,
Trondheim, Norway
1995
Robert Arneson-Changing the Face of Contemporary Ceramics,
Kingsborough Community College, Brooklyn, NY
1994
Talentborse Handwerk 1994, Munich, Germany
1992
Contemporary Ceramics, Benington College Gallery, Bennington, VT
1991
Thirtv Years of TB-9: A Tribute to Robert Arneson, John Natsoulas
Gallery, Davis, CA
The 47th Scripps Ceramic Annual, Lang Gallery, Scripps College,
Claremont, CA
1990
The Fourth Concorso Nazionale della Ceramica d'Art Savona-Fortezza
Prifu.r, Savona, ltalY
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2012
Brown, Jared. "Figuring Color at the lCA." WGHB, February 23.
Smee, Sebastian. "'Figuring Color'exhibit shows pigments of their imaginations." The
Boston Globe, February 17.
2011
Johnson, Ken, "Are You Experienced? How Psychedelic Consciousness Transformed
Modern Art," Prestel
Karlins, Nancy, "Contemporary Clay Hot and Cold," artnet Magazine, July
Princenthal, Nancy, 'The JewelThief," Art in America, January
Cottler, Holland, "New Sparkle for an Abstract Ensemble," The New York Times,
January 7
2010
Yau, John, "Kathy Butterly Pantyhose and Morandi", The Brooklyn Rail, June 4,2010
2009
Smith, Roberta, 'Crucible of Creativity, Stoking Earth into Art, New York Times, March 19
Gopnik, Blake, "Clay's Big Day: The Art World is in a Place That's Very Familiar Ground in the
Realm of Ceramics", Washington Post March 1
Smith, Roberta, "John Newman, lnstruments of Argument: Recent Sculpture",
New York Times,February 27
2008
Smith, Roberta, "Using Old Materials to Put A New Face on A Museum", New York
Times, September 26 2008
2007
Smith, Roberta, "lt's Just CIay but How About A Little Respect?", The New York Times,
September 7
Mendelsohn, Meredith, "Reviews: New York, Kathy Butterly". ARTnews, Summer
2007, p.198.
Smith, Roberta, "Kathy Butterly: Between a Rock and a Soft Place". The New York
Times, April 27, 2007, 8.26
Cohen, David, "Kathy Butterly: Betweena Rock and a Soft Place". The New York Sun,
May 3, 2007, p.21
2006
Kathy Butterly, Freaks and Beauties book, The Frances Young Tang Teaching
Museum, NY
2005
Genocchio, Benjamin, "Quirky and Textured, Works Vie for Attenion", The New York
Times, November 6, 2005.
Siegal, Kaly "2004 Carnegie International", Artforum, January
Trainor, James, "2004 Carnegie lnternational", Frieze, January
Landi, Ann, "Beautifuland Grotesque", ArtNews, Summer
2OO4 Johnson, Ken,'Kathy Butterly: Fall lnto Spring', The New York Times, October 29. 836
Johnson, Ken, 'Pittsburgh Rounds Up Work Made in NovelWays' The New York
Times, November 4
"54tr Carnegie lnternational", Carnegie Museum of Art, Carnegie lnstitute
Shaw, Kurt, "lt's A Small World", Pittsburgh Tribune-Revieuz, December 2
Schjeldahl, Peter, "Goings on About Town: Kathy Butterly", The New Yorker,
November 29
Thomas Mary, "Energy, Enthusiasm Flow Through lnternational", Pittsburgh PostGazette, October 16
Gopnik, Blake, "Pick of the Litter: At the Carnegie lnternational, Artists of All Stripes",
Washington Post, October 15
Heller-LaBelle, Greg, "lnternationalArtists Create Diverse Show", The Pitt News,
October
11
2003
Scobie, llka, "Reviews:Kathy Butterly", American Ceramics, #1412
Ollman, Leah "surprises in lrreverent Clay: Kathy Butterly", Los Angeles Times, May
30
2OO2 "Goings On About Town: Kathy Butterly," The New Yorker, March 18.
smith, Roberta, "Art in Review: Kathy Butterly," The New York Times, March 1.
2001
Chambers, Karen, "Kathy Butterly," lnternet ArtResources, January 6.
DelVecchio, Mark, Postmodern Ceramics, Thames & Hudson'
Kingsley, April, "Kathy Butterly Miniature Monuments," American
Ceramics,1313.
Long, Charles, "Top Ten," March.
Niederlander, Rebecca, "The Ambassadors from Eulipio (Why lt's Okay
to Feel Again) ;n 2OO1 Ceramic Annual: Scripp's College Ceramics Exhibition, Ruth
Chandler Williamson Gallery, Scripp's College, Claremont, CA
2O0O Sherman, Mary, "National Reviews: Tom Burckhardt and Kathy
Butterly," Artnews, December.
Koplos, Janet, "Review of Exhibitions," Art in America, June-
1999
Burgard, Timothy, The Art of Craft: Contemporary Works from the
Saxe Collection, M.H.de Young Museum, Fine Arts Museums ol San Francisco, San
Francisco, CA
Danto, Arthur C. & Janet Koplos, "Choice of America: Modern American Ceramics," in
Museum Het Kruthius Collection, Museum Het Kruthius, Hertogenbosch, Netherlands.
Johnson, Ken, "Art in Review: Kathy Butterly," The New York Times,
December 31.
1998
"Portfolio," American Craft, December/January.
1997
Glueck, Grace, "Art in Review: Kathy Butterly," The New York Times,
October 10.
1996
Adkins, Gretchen, "The Pots of Kathy Butterly," Ceramics Art and Perception,lssue 23.
Chambers, Karen, "Exhibitions: Kathy Butterly," American Ceramics, 1212.
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Clark, Garth, "Rising Above the Polemic - Organic Abstraction in Contemporary
Ceramics," Ceramics Art and Perception,lssue 22.
Smith, Robert, "Art in Review: Kathy Butterly," The New York Times, August 4.
AWARDS
2O11 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
2009
New York Foundation for the Arts Grant
Joan Mitchell Foundation:2009 Painters & Sculptors Grant
2007
The Artists'Legacy Foundation Artist Award
1999
New York Foundation for the Arts Grant
1995
Empire State Crafts Alliance Grant
1993
The Evelyn Shapiro Foundation Grant
MUSEUM COLLECTIONS
Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum, Sarasota Springs, NY
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
Detroit lnstitute of Art, Detroit, Ml
University Art Museum, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
The Mint Museum of Craft + Design, Gharlotte, NC
Renwick Gallery, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian lnstitution, Washington, D.C.
Museum of Contemporary Art, s'Hertogenbosch, Netherlands
M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA (promised gifts of the Saxe Collection)
The American Cratt Museum, New York
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse