Kate Slater is an illus­tra­tor liv­ing in Lon­don. Her work is a com­bi­na­tion of flat col­lage and paper, cut-outs, and wire (used to cre­ate a relief sculp­ture). With her bold, eye-catching style, she’s cre­ated book cov­ers, posters, and even done animations. I find Kate’s illus­tra­tions to be beau­ti­fully com­plex. She seems to have an unend­ing ...

Camilla Eng­man is painter and illus­tra­tor whose moody and often ethe­real work fea­tures a wide cast of characters. Camilla’s col­or­ing is rather muted, and she uses rich ochre, sienna, and powder-blue as her pri­mary palette. In her painted works, the cos­tum­ing and paint­ing tech­nique is rem­i­nis­cent of Euro­pean paint­ings from the 16th and 17th century. ...

I am in the mood for cut outs today! Rob Ryan is a London-based artist whose work is com­prised of images and words cut out of paper. His work has appeared in books, mag­a­zines, and gallery shows. I find Rob’s cut outs so won­der­ful. He wields the Exacto knife well– his shapes are elon­gated and ...

Kako Ueda is an artist that I saw at Slash:Paper Under the Knife in New York. She is a Brook­lyn based artist that uses relief cut­ting to focus on organic forms (such as insects and the human body) and also explore the idea of thought and worship. I really like Kako’s rep­re­sen­ta­tion of the human ...

Judy Pfaff cre­ates beau­ti­ful, mul­ti­fac­eted works that reflect directly what is going on in her life and her reac­tion to it. Judy uses a vari­ety of mate­ri­als that make her work sculp­tural and site-specific. Her use of things like string, cut paper, and paint in her draw­ings is what has really cap­tured my eye. I love ...

Andrea Dezsö is a pro­lific visual artist whose work spans draw­ing, book mak­ing, cut paper, embroi­dery, and pub­lic art. Andrea’s work shows a keen under­stand­ing of media and visu­als, and it is obvi­ous that she appeals to a wide array of of view­ers. I am par­tic­u­larly inter­ested in her artist books and embroidery. Her tun­nel books ...

Beat­rice Coron is an artist whose work was in Slash:Paper Under the Knife. Her work is mon­u­men­tal to, say the least. It also really ben­e­fits from light and space, and a viewer that can devote ample time to study­ing the idio­syn­crasies and mul­ti­ple nar­ra­tives that are present in each of her works. Beat­rice is clearly a ...

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 ...

Michael Velli­quette has cre­ated an aston­ish­ing paper world. It is bright, impres­sive in size, and extremely detailed. The metic­u­lous­ness in his work is unmatched of any­thing I’ve really seen. The way that Michael’s pieces hang on the wall remind me of masks and almost pieces of a totem pole. The amount of paper actu­ally cut ...

Anthony Zinonos is addicted to col­lect­ing paper. His work is a prod­uct of his col­lec­tion, incor­po­rat­ing print­mak­ing, col­lage, and photo imaging. Anthony’s work tends to be min­i­mal­ist, have a large fields of a lim­ited color palette, and one focal point in the image. Aside from this, Anthony has also made his work some­what absurd and ...