ARTIST STATEMENT
Structure Seeking Behavior visualizes the act of establishing and redefining personal spaces and limits in response to trauma. Survivors practice setting new boundaries, much like a calculated, drawn line distinct from a rising dark entity.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Ingrid Butterer is an artist living and working in Brooklyn, New York. Her practice focuses on the intersection of motherhood and violence, represented through clay, fiber sculpture, earth art, and photo/video/performance. Ingrid earned her BFA from the University of Michigan and her Ed.M. from Columbia University, Teachers College, where she is a frequent lecturer. Her work has been published in Orenda Arts Journal, Quarantine Magazine, and Womxn Artist Project. Ingrid’s work has been shown at Lincoln Center, Atlantic Gallery, Rochester Contemporary Art Center, Yamashita Gallery, and Kyoto Shibori Museum in Japan, among others. She has been a featured speaker at The Women of Kansai Association (Japan), SLA Gallery, Gallery at St. Francis College, Brooklyn College and Yardmeter Editions in New York City. She is currently a member of Zero Space Collective and Woman Made Gallery, Chicago. Ingrid’s recent endeavors include curating CONSTELLATION: SLA Art Space’s Women’s Invitational in New York City. Her work is held in private collections throughout the U.S. and Japan.
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