Meijer Sculpture Gardens

Meijer Sculpture Gardens

Lawrence Technological University

June 21, 2017

Cabin Creek

Deborah Butterfield

Aluzzo, Adrienne (photograph)

American

Visual Works

1999

Michigan (state)

Grand Rapids (inhabited place)

Modern (style or period)

Horses

public sculpture

View of bronze sculpture, "Cabin Creek" by Deborah Butterfield at the Meijer Sculpture Gardens in Grand Rapids, Michigan. "For the past decade, she has been making bronze work, cast from “stray, downed pieces of wood.” Butterfield carefully, intuitively, selects the branches and sticks which are used to "draw" her horses. "The lines of the branches do not simply outline the forms of horses, they create the contours through an accumulation of simple or energetic lines that seem to build up from within. This is three-dimensional gesture drawing, and the result is both skeletal and muscular." These models or “ghosts” (as the artist refers to them) are then cast, burning the wood away with molten bronze, creating one, unique sculpture to which she then methodically, expertly applies her patina"--Danese Corey Gallery website.

bronze (metal)

88 x 122.5 x 30.5 inches

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