Join us for an exclusive preview of the transformational exhibition
Cut Up/Cut Out.
Cut Up/ Cut Out features
national and international artists who explore the captivating methods
of decorative piercing and cutting.
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Francesca Pastine, ArtForum 50, Hindsight, 2015
ARTFORUM magazine, Plexiglas, screws |
2017-2020 National Tour
Cut Up/Cut Out features
approximately 100, 2-D and 3-D works by a dynamic roster of national
and international artists who explore the practice of “cutting” in
various ways – from cut paper to plastic to metal.
The art of cutting paper dates back thousands of years, with early artworks coming from 6
th Century China. The artists of
Cut Up/Cut Out
explore the many methods of decorative piercing and cutting, but extend
their media to include paper, cloth, metal, wood, rubber and much more.
The transformative nature of cutting into and through a surface
provides endless possibilities for converting the material from opaque
to transparent, from flat to sculptural, from rigid to delicate, and
from ordinary to exquisite. The artist might retain the plane of the
surface and incise it to create lace-like imagery, or use thousands of
intricately cut pieces to build a sculptural object or atmosphere. The
process and precision required for this method of art-making is
laborious, technically demanding, and always astonishing.
artists include:
James Allen, Ana Bidart, Lucrezia Bieler, Tord Boontje, Nathalie
Boutté, Claire Brewster, Robert Brinker, Rogan Brown, Sarah
Burgess, Michael Buscemi, Charles Clary, Adriane Colburn, Wim Delvoye,
Lorenzo Durán, Mounir Fatmi, Hillary Waters Fayle, Adam
Feibelman, Carmen Lomas Garza, Margaret Griffith, Mayumi
Hamanaka, Adriene Heloise, Meg Hitchcock, Justine Khamara, Kyong Ae
Kim, Will Kurtz, Lauren Kussro, Cal Lane, Bovey Lee, Simone
Lourenço, Karen Margolis, Chris Natrop, Amy Oates, Francesca Pastine,
Irène Pijoan, Nikki Rosato, Donna Ruff, Rob Ryan, Lyndi Sales, Gabriel
Schama, Brian Singer, Andy Singleton, Xin Song, Jen Stark, Janna
Syvänoja, Yuken Teruya, Kako Ueda, Annie Vought, Mark Wagner, Maude
White, Barbara Wildenboer, Ty Zemelsky
exhibition schedule
Bellevue Arts Museum, WA
June 30 - October 22, 2017
Huntsville Museum of Art, AL
November 19 - February 11, 2018
Pensacola Museum of Art, FL
March 2 - June 17, 2018
Ellen Noel Art Museum, TX
July 19 - October 14, 2018
Foosaner Art Museum at the Florida Institute of Technology, FL
November 10 - February 3, 2019
Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, WI
March 2 - May 26, 2019
Amarillo Museum of Art
July 6 - September 15, 2019
Art Museum of West Virginia University, WV
October 12 - September 8, 2019
image: Margaret Griffith,
Coringa, 2012, hand cut paper, 114 x 48 x 46 inches
