Deborah Butterfield: New Sculptures
Deborah Butterfield is a renowned American sculptor celebrated for her poignant depictions of horses crafted from natural and reclaimed materials. Her lifelong passion for horses began in childhood and became the central theme of her career. Initially, Butterfield created life-sized forms using mud, clay, and sticks. By the late 1970s, she transitioned to working with scrap metal and found steel, and later began casting her wooden assemblages in bronze, preserving the texture and form of the original materials.
Butterfield鈥檚 sculptures offer more than realistic portrayals鈥攖hey serve as quiet, powerful reflections of human emotion and experience. Each work conveys a sense of calm, strength, and contemplation that captures the spirit of the animal and a deeper feeling of presence and memory. Her intuitive use of reclaimed materials expands the emotional and expressive range of contemporary sculpture.
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Deborah Butterfield is a renowned American sculptor celebrated for her poignant depictions of horses crafted from natural and reclaimed materials. Her lifelong passion for horses began in childhood and became the central theme of her career. Initially, Butterfield created life-sized forms using mud, clay, and sticks. By the late 1970s, she transitioned to working with scrap metal and found steel, and later began casting her wooden assemblages in bronze, preserving the texture and form of the original materials.
Butterfield鈥檚 sculptures offer more than realistic portrayals鈥攖hey serve as quiet, powerful reflections of human emotion and experience. Each work conveys a sense of calm, strength, and contemplation that captures the spirit of the animal and a deeper feeling of presence and memory. Her intuitive use of reclaimed materials expands the emotional and expressive range of contemporary sculpture.
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