Name/Title
Deborah Butterfield : San Diego Museum of ArtEntry/Object ID
N9500.B88.S26Description
"Deborah Butterfield has made sculptures of horses since the early 1970s of various materials such as mud, sticks, barbed wire, fencing, corrugated metal, and other found materials, including a wrecked airstream trailer and the remains of a pea cannery. They confront the viewer with the -- complexity of their formal sculptural presence, specific personality, and inner core of meaning, which, according to the artist, "isn't about horses at all". Butterfield, who was born and grew up in San Diego, developed the ideas leading to her life-size horse sculptures before moving to Montana, where she currently lives and works. Unlike the militaristic horses of western art history, Butterfield's early horses were mares, unridden and usually solitary. She has succeeded in transferring her explorations of a female sensibility into extraordinarily satisfying work that transcends but does not ignore contemporary feminist implications and artistic explorations."Context
Catalog of an exhibition entitled "Deborah Butterfield," presented at the San Diego Museum of Art, July 20-Sept. 15, 1996.Collection
Carol Westfall CollectionLexicon
Search Terms
artist monographs, horses in art, sculptors, sculpture--exhibitions, women artistsLegacy Lexicon
Category
Exhibition catalogBook Details
Author
Deborah ButterfieldPublisher
San Diego Museum of ArtPlace Published
* Untyped Place Published
San DiegoDate Published
1996Call No.
N9500.B88.S26ISBN
937108219, 9780937108215LCCN
96069294Notes
Length: 70