By: Janelle HenryAMY CUTLER
Born in Poughkeepsie, New York in 1974Received her BFA from The Cooper Union
School of Art in 1997Received her first solo exhibition in 2000Studied in Germany, and the Skowhegan
School of Painting and Sculpture.
FACTS
AMY CUTLER
Saddlebacked- Women make their lives more stressful and harder then needed.
Inspired by nature books, fairy tales, Japanese woodblock prints, Persian miniatures
Subjects are usually womenShow women in there struggles of being
femaleInfluenced by personal experiences and
medieval historyThemes such as transformation and evolution
ABOUT THE ART
Cutler's characters have elongated noses, long pigtails, teapot heads, or broomstick
armsThey wear folk costumes, hoop skirts, or
dresses that become tents for sleeping and shelter
Mysterious actions--resonating pigs or attaching chairs and silverware to their
head
FACTS ABOUT ART
ARS 06 at KIASMA2004 Whitney Biennial
Greater New York at PSI/MOMA in 2005Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in
Kansas Institute of Contemporary Art in
Philadelphia
EXHIBITIONS
“Alteraciones”
Organized by the Indianapolis Museum of Art, Amy Cutler is the first traveling museum exhibition of the artist's work.
Women ironing other women, flattening them out and hanging them to dry
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