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‘Figuring Color’ exhibit shows pigments of their imaginations

In the ICA’s sensuous antidote to winter, four artists have made works that suggest the human touch

By Sebastian Smee

 |  Globe Staff  

  February 17, 2012

“Figuring Color,’’ which includes 28 works by the brilliant New York-based ceramicist Kathy Butterly, was organized by the ICA’s Jenelle Porter. It features four artists - two women, two men; three in their 40s or 50s. (The fourth, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, died, aged 38, in 1996). Bright and lively, it’s a perfect winter show for the ICA, and a sop for those seeking relief from the varieties of conceptual minimalism that tend to hold court there.

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