If you fol­low my tweets at all, you might have known that I ven­tured to New York City this week­end, largely to check out the Museum of Art and Design. It was the last week­end for their exhi­bi­tion, Slash: Paper Under the Knife.

Slash rec­og­nized that paper, while a con­ven­tional and abun­dant resource, is quickly hav­ing a resur­gence in the inter­na­tional art world. The show explored the diverse uses of paper, includ­ing the way it was pre­pared, cut, and trans­formed by a range of artists.

Over­all, I enjoyed the show, which took up two lev­els of the museum. A smat­ter­ing of dif­fer­ent artists, I saw some cut paper that I enjoyed more than oth­ers (to be expected), but at the same time I was pleased by the range of the show and my intro­duc­tion to artists and ways of work­ing I was not before famil­iar with.

For the next cou­ple of days, I’ll be fea­tur­ing some artist from the show that I really enjoyed!

Added New York City treat: I got to meet the very lovely Jen Collins and sis­ter at Giant Robot NY. We had a won­der­ful time look­ing at work and perus­ing the store, and she later pre­vented me from get­ting on the wrong train. Thanks Jen!