Mining the most immediate and intimate objects found in domestic materiality, Cutler continues to build his investigations into the ephemeral tumult of living and working. Beginning with a process of inkjet transfer on canvas, he then collages and paints over his imagery, fashioning paintings and sculptures that collapse boundaries between the body and objects that surround, nourish and shelter it. His repetitive motifs of rib cages, trellises, vessels, cleaning products, plants, flowers, food, clothing, shipping crates, tools and domestic furniture weave throughout his disobedient surfaces, undermining the substrates that physically support the work. His objects, defying photographic practice or studied still life, are frozen moments of the precise breaking point where leaves lap the surfaces of canvases and twigs, chairs, and flowers tear the seams of their containers. His work, like Zohore’s, nods to class-based labor, while projecting a speculative realm untethered to conventional material reality.
Halsey McKay Gallery
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