Deborah Butterfield
July 15 – August 29, 2009
Reception: July 16, 5:30 – 7:30pm
Gallery Paule Anglim
14 Geary Street
San Francisco, CA 94108
tel. 415.433.2710
fax 415.433.1501
anglim [at] gallerypauleanglim.com
http://www.gallerypauleanglim.com
Gallery Paule Anglim is pleased to present new work by Deborah Butterfield in two related exhibitions, one outdoors featuring four large bronze sculptures and the second at the gallery providing an overview of small sculptures in various media: bronze, found metal and copper.
The outdoor presentation at 425 Market Street, a private plaza in downtown San Francisco, will be the site of four horse sculptures. The compositions, larger than life, made from wood pieces and stone and cast in bronze, will provide an environment of contemplation and retreat in the contrast of their contained expression of rest against the urban architecture and activity. Butterfield uses the horse form as a figure for the other, the unknown that defines human experiences of curiosity, empathy and understanding.
The Gallery Paule Anglim exhibition will feature a panorama of the artist’s work in a smaller scale. The horse figures (approx. 45″ high) will be rendered in bronze, found painted steel and other materials. A series of 5 small bronze sculptures, made in Hawaii from thin sticks, appear as 3-dimensional drawings, cloud-like essential equestrian forms.
The renowned artist’s sculptures are represented in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian Institution, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Walker Art Center, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Denver Art Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Dallas Museum of Art, among other noted institutions.
Please visit the gallery’s website at http://www.gallerypauleanglim.com
