Amy Cutler
°1974, Poughkeepsie (US) – lives and works in Brooklyn (US)
Amy Cutler is known for her highly detailed compositions of austere but immaculately attired women who, with a singular focus, engage in curious activities—from sewing stripes onto tigers to delivering elixirs while wearing boot-shaped wooden stilts. Despite their fictionalized settings, the drawings are often inspired by Cutler’s own experiences and anxieties, which she brilliantly transforms into allegorical scenarios that resonate with emotional depth and humour. Seamlessly integrating subtle allusions to contemporary politics and even stories of religious martyrdom into her work, the artist is also influenced by a range of visual sources, including Persian miniatures, Japanese Ukiyo-e prints, and ethnographic dress and textiles.
(Courtesy Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison)
Amy Cutler -Sincerity, 2019
Amy Cutler - Margaret, 2011
Amy Cutler - Late Afternoon, 2018
Amy Cutler - Harbinger’s Grove, 2019
Amy Cutler - Satiety, 2011
Amy Cutler - Marika, 2011
Amy Cutler - Marion, 2019
Amy Cutler had numerous solo exhibitions in international venues such as Museo Nacional Reina Sofía, Madrid; Indianapolis Museum of Art; Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas ; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; and Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia. Her work is featured in important public collections such as MoMA, New York; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; New Museum, New York; and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
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