Amy Cutler’s gouache narratives explore womanhood and the Western experience through surrealism and icons of domestication. The Poughkeepsie-artist plays with pattern and texture in these scenes, pulled from both contemporary design and historical fashions. Her work has been shown in solo shows from New York to Stockholm.
Amy Cutler's bizarre, delicate paintings are an unsettling kind of folksy. We talked to the internationally acclaimed, Brooklyn-based artist about goats, anxiety dreams, and "women's work."
Amy Cutler’s gouache narratives explore womanhood and the Western experience through surrealism and icons of domestication. The Poughkeepsie-artist plays with pattern and texture in these scenes, pulled from both contemporary design and historical fashions. Her work has been shown in solo shows from New York to Stockholm.
The above picture byArtist Amy Cutler is titled Safekeeping and it's about feelings of stagnation. I found her `artist explination' in an o...
Three drawings
In Amy Cutler’s paintings and drawings, folklore, fairy tales, and personal iconography all vie for attention—and presence on the page.
The face is not a perfectly oval stage for sight and emotion. For Amy Cutler, it’s a cancerously misshapen gestalt—marked like a knuckle or a fist with venous blue smudges and faint red lines—whose…
During a recent chat on a Brooklyn park bench, artist Amy Cutler described her unexpected role as a confidant to strangers.
In Amy Cutler’s paintings and drawings, folklore, fairy tales, and personal iconography all vie for attention—and presence on the page.
There is a strain of contemporary art that has to do with investigations of the artistic imagination as applied to social history and natural history.
Fantastical narrative is a guiding principle for many artists who have come to prominence in the past decade; Amy Cutler and Dana Schutz are foremost among these. Both possess extraordinary imaginative powers, creating worlds that are entirely fresh and singular. This month’s and the subsequent post of Ink will focus on the prints of