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Deborah Kay Butterfield

Deborah Kay Butterfield (Born 1949) is active/lives in Montana, California.  Deborah Butterfield is known for Abstract mixed-media horse sculpture.

Born in San Diego, California, on the day of the 75th running of the Kentucky Derby, Deborah Butterfield credits this event as determining her career as a modernist sculptor of horses.

Her work is a combination of abstraction and reality.  She uses found objects*, related to both horses and the discards of modern society, and applies these symbolic objects to armaments that are realistic shapes of horses' bodies.  The overall effect is of a large, strong, loveable animal, gentle and calm, and it is obvious from the gentle personality conveyed by the objects that she has a strong affinity and understanding of her subjects.

Butterfield received a Master of Fine Arts Degree from the University of California at Davis where she was a student of modernists William T Wiley, Robert Arneson, and Wayne Thiebaud.  Her training in ceramics and sculpture increased her interest in crafts, but she decided to pursue the subject matter that was of most inter   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 9673 characters.]  Artist bio

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