Echo's Answer

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Bridging the visual and the tactile, the works that comprise the show speak to the mystic interdependence of natural and creative forces, invoked through the hand’s contact with the physical surfaces of paper or clay. Central to the exhibition are a series of sculptures inspired by clouds, whose movement and lyricism usher from Butler’s intuitive dialogue her material. These, like Butler’s drawings, reference brief encounters with the natural world, speaking to the desire to physically connect with that which is most fleeting. 

With Echo’s Answer, Butler’s mediums act as resonant surfaces akin to a canyon wall: physical planes against which the human voice finds its place within the immensity of nature. Analogies to sound recur through many of the works on view: in the waves of the cloud-inspired sculptures, the percussive pen marks by which Butler composes drawings and in the volumes of space wrapped within a number of sculptures and lighting, creating echo chambers of sorts for reverberations of form.

January 15 performance cancelled due to COVID-19.