Matthew Kavinas Analysis

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Matthew Kangas, an art critics, writing about Seattle art, and local and national artists for about three decades. He says Butler’s work of the sculpture, ““Rounds” is denser and unitary. A shift away from some of Butler’s more dispersed installations, its inner hole is an energy locus for the spiraling and radiating cedar sticks that repeat the color contrast and banding motifs of “Crust”” which means that the progression of repeatability creates the dynamic of energy. He also says about the six drawings, titled “Inventions”, “are marvelously ethereal and evocative of plant of cellular forms. But they are systematic in the manner of Agnes Denes. Closest to nature among the works on view, they portray dangling threads, clustering seeds, evanescent

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