Research Catalog

Title

Amy Cutler : Turtle fur / [Laura Steward, Aimee Bender].

Author

Cutler, Amy, 1974-

Publication

Germany : Hatje Cantz Pub c2011.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Steward, Laura
• Bender, Aimee
• Site Santa Fe (Gallery)
• University of California, Santa Barbara. University Art Museum

Description

175 p. : chiefly ill. (chiefly col.); 29 cm.

Summary

"Polite ladies in Victorian costume dancing on tabletops with chairs worn like hats on their heads; young girls with little foals strapped to their backs; a team of women dutifully mending docile tigers with needle and thread--all of these surreal antics depicted on a bare white ground--this is the jauntily disturbing imagery of Amy Cutler (born 1974), as clear-eyed in its execution as it is enigmatic in content. Cutler's gouaches and drawings on paper have won fans and collectors worldwide, and their winning amalgam of rich imagination and skillful execution, which together update lineages as various as Persian miniature painting, Surrealism, children's fairytale books and Japanese woodblock printing, offers satisfactions rarely found in contemporary art. More recently, Cutler has ventured into sculptural installation, realizing her idiosyncratic world in three dimensions with a work titled "Alteraciones," in which dozens of female figurines--produced from molds handmade by the artist--are gathered around a tabletop and are weaving a thread that binds them to each other. This volume, published for the artist's 2011 exhibition at SITE Sante Fe, is Cutler's second monograph (her first went out of print quickly and is already a rarity), and draws from private and public collections to offer a thorough survey of her work from the late 1990s to the present."--Publisher's description.

Subject

• Cutler, Amy, 1974- > Exhibitions
• Cutler, Amy, 1974- > Interviews
• 2000-2099
• Drawing
• Installations (Art)
• Art, American > 21st century > Exhibitions
• Women in art > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

• Exhibition catalogs
• Interviews

Note

• Catalog of an exhibition held at SITE, Santa Fe, Feb. 5-May 15, 2011, and the University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara, July-Sept. 2012.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (page 15) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Interview with the artist / Aimee Bender -- Paintings -- Drawings -- Prints -- Tiger Mending / Aimee Bender -- Sculpture.

ISBN

• 9783775728096
• 3775728090

OCLC

• 694827735
• SCSB-10295403

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library