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.
Originally published in
Georgia Marsh, Paul Bowles, Michael McClard, Olivier Mosset & Fred Brathwaite, and Duncan Hannah. Cover by Mary Heilmann.
We need our own space to think and digest what we see. And we also have to trust the viewer and trust the power of the object. And the power is in simple things. I like the kind of clarity that that brings to thought. It keeps thought from being opaque.
Felix Gonzalez-Torres
