A graduate of Moore College of Art and the University of California at Davis, Butterly has exhibited regularly in galleries and museum since 1992 (her earliest one-person exhibits were at Moore College and the Clay Studio — both in Philadelphia). Selected for the 2005 Carnegie International — the curator wrote that, “Butterly’s colorful, cartoony, and richly ornamental vessels might be seen as 3-D ‘cousins’ to the drawings of Robert Crumb.” The artist’s work was recently included in Dirt on Delight — organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia and subsequently shown at the Walker Art Center. The artist’s work is in several museum collections including The Museum of Arts and Design, MoMA and the Smithsonian Museum of Art.
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