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Amy Cutler . By: Janelle Henry. Facts. B orn in Poughkeepsie, New York in 1974 R eceived her BFA from The Cooper Union School of Art in 1997 R eceived her first solo exhibition in 2000 Studied in Germany, and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture . . AMY CUTLER .
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Amy Cutler By: Janelle Henry
Facts • Born in Poughkeepsie, New York in 1974 • Received her BFA from The Cooper Union School of Art in 1997 • Received her first solo exhibition in 2000 • Studied in Germany, and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.
AMY CUTLER Saddlebacked- Women make their lives more stressful and harder then needed.
About the Art • Inspired by nature books, fairy tales, Japanese woodblock prints, Persian miniatures • Subjects are usually women • Show women in there struggles of being female • Influenced by personal experiences and medieval history • Themes such as transformation and evolution
Facts about Art • Cutler's characters have elongated noses, long pigtails, teapot heads, or broomstick arms • They 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
Exhibitions • ARS 06 at KIASMA • 2004 Whitney Biennial • Greater New York at PSI/MOMA in 2005 • Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas • Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia
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