#Deborah Butterfield

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For #MetalMonday :

Deborah Butterfield (USA, b. 1949)

Riot, c. 1990

Steel, 81.5 × 120 × 34 in. (207 × 304.8 × 86.4 cm)

On display at Delaware Art Museum DAM 1991-126

“Deborah Butterfield used found objects - scraps of metal, including letters from discarded movie theater signs - in her sculpture, Riot. Butterfield's work drew its title from the letters she featured.”

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Deborah Butterfield at Marlborough Gallery

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Deborah Butterfield, Monekana, 2001, bronze, 96 x 129 1⁄2 x 63 1⁄2 in. (243.8 x 328.9 x 161.3 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the American Art Forum, Mr. and Mrs. Frank O. Rushing, Shelby and Frederick Gans and museum purchase, 2002.3, © 2001, Deborah Butterfield

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horse sculpture by Deborah Butterfield, Columbus Museum of Art.

photo by me.

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Horse No. 1, Deborah Butterfield, 1983. metal, wood, mud.

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shadow works vi

Sculpture pictured: Ancient Forest 2009 Deborah Butterfield (American, born 1949)

Cast bronze

Located in the Pappajohn Sculpture Park in Des Moines, IA

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Deborah Butterfield

Small Dry Fork Horse, 1978

Wood and wire

28 1/4 × 49 × 10 1/2 in | 71.8 × 124.5 × 26.7 cm

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Guided By Voices - Toad's Place, New Haven, Connecticut, October 30, 1995

Back to the Alex Butterfield Archives. This terrific tape captures Guided By Voices opening for Urge Overkill back in the Alien Lanes era — kind of an odd matchup, in hindsight. It was the 1990s, I guess. The tour was fraught with difficulties; in fact, a few days after this Toad's Place gig, GBV was unceremoniously booted by UO. What happened?! Well, fortunately, MTV News was on the case all those years ago:

When we last left Guided By Voices, they had either: 1) Been kicked off the Urge Overkill tour; or 2) Left the tour because things were going so bad for the group. Yesterday, we got the band's side of the story from the one and only Deborah Orr, publicist for Matador Records. "GBV has nothing against Urge Overkill," said Orr, insisting that GBV was not kicked off the Urge tour. "It was completely their own decision to leave the tour. The two bands got along together fine, (Editor: Is that a euphemism?) and leaving the tour had to do with [GBV singer Robert] Pollard's injuries. The most important injury being to Pollard's voice." Being restrained in a choke hold tends to do something nasty to the vocal cords. According to Orr, the whole dispute in Toronto, in which a security guard got violent with the singer, occurred after Pollard walked back out on stage to explain to an insistent audience that, given time constraints, they would not be able to deliver an encore. Pollard, who had been drinking (as usual) believed that he needed to personally explain the circumstances to one fan, but unfortunately the security guards didn't agree, and overreacted. Orr also informed us that GBV will be off the road until March, when they go out to promote their next album, The World Series Of Psychic Phenomena.

So there you have it ... all things considered, Pollard and co. sound magnificent here despite the indie rock drama, parallel lines on a slow decline. Their opening act status means that it's a truncated set — only 18 songs in 41 minutes! With fill-in drummer Craig-O in the lineup, GBV wastes no time, playing plenty of the hits, plus a few previews of Under the Bushes, Under the Stars, which (as the MTV News report shows) was not called that yet. There were a lot of different names for that album: The Power of Suck, The Flying Party Is Here, Mustard Man & Mother Monkey ... There are also a few rarities, like "Delayed Reaction Brats," "The Worryin' Song" and "Uprooted Before Seeding." Thank you once again for the tape, Alex!

PS - You can check out Alex’s own tunes over here and here, too …

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Deborah Butterfield (b. 1949)

Whitebark, 2014, unique cast bronze with patina, 86.75 x 108 x 25 inches

Millie Fire, 2017, unique cast bronze with patina, 96 x 132 x 36 inches

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Birthdays 5.7

Beer Birthdays

Anton Dreher (1810)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Gary Cooper; actor (1901)

David Hume; Scottish philosopher (1711)

Traci Lords; actress, singer (1968)

Pytor Ilyich Tschaikovsky; composer (1840)

Johnny Unitas; Baltimore Colts QB (1933)

Famous Birthdays

Anne Baxter; actor (1923)

Johannes Brahms; composer (1833)

Teresa Brewer; country singer (1931)

Robert Browning; English writer (1812)

Deborah Butterfield; sculptor (1949)

Peter Carey; Australian writer (1943)

Angela Carter; writer (1940)

"Tex" Cobb, American boxer and actor (1950)

Olympe de Gouges; French playwright and philosopher (1748)

Willem Elsschot; Belgian author (1882)

Totie Fields; actor (1930)

Gabby Hayes; actor (1885)

Amy Heckerling; film director (1954)

Thelma Houston; R&B/disco singer (1946)

Janis Ian; pop singer (1951)

Joseph Joubert; French writer (1754)

Bill Kreutzmann; rock drummer (1946)

Edwin H. Land; inventor, photography pioneer (1909)

Archibald MacLeish; writer (1892)

Gavin McGavin; actor (1922)

Brecklin Meyer; actor (1974)

Eva Peron; Argentine royalty (1919)

Thomas Reid; Scottish philosopher (1710)

Tim Russert; television host (1950)

Rabindranath Tagore; Indian author (1861)

Jimmy Ruffin; soul singer (1936)

Gene Wolfe; author (1931)

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Appendage (2023)

Appendage (2023) #AnnaZlokovic #EmilyHampshire #HadleyRobinson #DeborahRennard #KausarMohammed #PatDortch Mehr auf:

Jahr: 2023 (Oktober) Genre: Drama / Horror Regie: Anna Zlokovic Hauptrollen: Emily Hampshire, Hadley Robinson, Deborah Rennard, Kausar Mohammed, Pat Dortch, Annie Pisapia, Carrie Stauber, Adam Butterfield, Daniel Chioco, Craig Kolkebeck, Ashley Rose Folino … Filmbeschreibung: Hannah (Hadley Robinson) ist eine talentierte junge Modedesignerin, wird aber von ihrem Boss Cristean (Desmin Borges)…

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Silver Bow, a 2010 bronze horse sculpture (top and middle) by Deborah Butterfield, once graced a grassy sward outside Pao Hall on Purdue’s campus.  It was struck twice by errant auto drivers who somehow missed the utter lack of street where said sculpture stood (first in 2014 then again in 2018), and both times the thing was removed to Ms. Butterfield’s studio for repair.

For the better part of five years, the display site retained both an identifying plaque, as well as a ring of stones that were placed (and failed) to protect the bronze from automotive trespass (both can be seen in the first image).  I was told maybe a year ago that Silver Bow was returned, but located near another building on campus, presumably where it is in less danger of being struck by a car.  “One of these days” I’ll hike over and get a shot of it at its new placement.

This past Wednesday, the display area outside Pao Hall was turned over with a backhoe, and as can be seen in the last photo, it appears that Silver Bow’s new siting will be permanent.  What, if anything, will replace the sculpture (other than grass) is yet to be seen.

Photos: R. Jake Wood; top: 2016; middle: 2011; bottom: 2023.

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Follow-up

Stories You May Have Missed

You can check out other posts on this Crawford High Alumna, Deborah Butterfield at the following posts: Retro Report @ https://epacer.tumblr.com/post/125064954327/retro-report, Back Story @ https://epacer.tumblr.com/post/13093969569/back-story, On View through August 14, 2011 @ https://epacer.tumblr.com/post/4829829760/on-view-through-august-14-2011, Colt Honored at 2010 Monty Awards @ https://epacer.tumblr.com/post/1720467999/colt-honored-at-2010-monty-awards and California Artist @ https://epacer.tumblr.com/post/1385833481/california-artist.

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just woke back up hi!! i had written some ideas for them on toyhouse that ill just paste here

there is a shifting, branchy mass that is entirely connected because some fucker organism covered its own planet. (ive found a personal motif with "branching" patterns like in trees, coral, antlers, etc.)

while learning language, it chose the name "Yet" because it liked that we had such a simple word for resilience

uses any pronouns variably (heads up for if/when i write more about it)

it's like a dense, living, self-manipulating forest. it is not made of wood, but rather very harsh flesh(?) and if struck hard enough it can bleed

the entire world looks like this uniformly except where rainwater covers it. there is no ground to walk on.

it pierces into its planet as far as it can go before heat and pressure could harm its roots

if it finds wildlife, it is very gentle with it because it values the company (i have not decided whether native wildlife exists or not ? if not, its probably entirely alone until found)

it is probably omniscient to whatever organisms live on it, and it cannot speak except telepathically.

to relate to whatever lives on it, it might form "twig animals" from the ground which mimic them. luckily i found some examples in art that are kind of similar in that idea:

(Left) From "The Forest of Coexistence" - Donghyun Kang, 2023

(Middle) "Alert Fawn" - Wendy Klemperer, 2023

(Right) "Rocky Creek" - Deborah Butterfield, 2019

concept for Yet, and Yet is a planet.

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Deborah Butterfield