But the idea of transformation has always been something that I romanticize in a work. I’m cautious of it but I also need it to connect my thoughts with the process of making. That’s really important.
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Nari Ward
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Tom Butter, O.B., 1982, 104 inches.
Tom Butter has been making fiberglass sculpture for several years. He handles the difficult toxic material with grace. The pieces are colored by the addition of powdered pigments or metallic powders to the resin. They are either delicately transparent or viscous and opaque.
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Originally published in
BOMB 4,
Fall 1982
Georgia Marsh, Paul Bowles, Michael McClard, Olivier Mosset & Fred Brathwaite, and Duncan Hannah. Cover by Mary Heilmann.
