{"id":10118,"date":"2023-01-04T11:00:19","date_gmt":"2023-01-04T16:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=10118"},"modified":"2023-01-04T10:59:06","modified_gmt":"2023-01-04T15:59:06","slug":"deborah-butterfield-at-marlborough-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/04\/deborah-butterfield-at-marlborough-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"Deborah Butterfield at Marlborough Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Though told as a student that horses weren\u2019t \u2018serious\u2019 subjects for contemporary art, Deborah Butterfield persevered to become renowned for sensitive and powerful sculptures of horses created in materials from salvaged metal to sea plastics.\u00a0 Best-known are her bronze pieces that still appear to be made of the wood from which they were cast, an enticing illusion.\u00a0 In a show of new work at Chelsea\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marlboroughnewyork.com\/on-view\/deborah-butterfield#tab:slideshow;tab-1:slideshow\">Marlborough Gallery<\/a>, Butterfield sourced wood from near her home\/working horse ranch in Montana and property in Hawaii to create towering horses like this one titled \u2018Sweetgrass,\u2019 which, though its assembled form is light like a sketch created in wood, has a powerful presence in keeping with its weighty bronze manufacture.\u00a0 (On view through Jan 14<sup>th<\/sup>).<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 2904px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/6c6876dc7ff53694967151f73\/images\/a3e897ee-7640-c5ca-1d85-22984c791ebd.jpg\" width=\"2904\" height=\"2460\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Deborah Butterfield, Sweetgrass, cast bronze, unique, 90 x 108 x 33 inches, 2021 \u2013 22.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though told as a student that horses weren\u2019t \u2018serious\u2019 subjects for contemporary art, Deborah Butterfield persevered to become renowned for sensitive and powerful sculptures of horses created in materials from salvaged metal to sea plastics.\u00a0 Best-known are her bronze pieces that still appear to be made of the wood from which they were cast, an &hellip; 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