Kathy Butterly at James Cohan Gallery, New York City

Kathy Butterly at James Cohan Gallery, New York City




Kathy Butterly is a much-celebrated ceramist whose eccentric forms and exuberant colors – and her art-world success with them – mark a notable female extension of the funk humor of Robert Arneson, with whom she studied. Funk was pretty much a boys’ club, but she managed to make it, if not “feminine” since it’s hard to say what that means nowadays, at least lighter in spirit and less vulgar.