Cut: Works Made by or About Cutting
Scissors, knife, saw, laser, CNC router, water... these and more may be used to cut materials to form useful, beautiful, or meaningful things, by design and artfulness. To cut is to take a simple action that may, as if by magic, turn one thing into two, many into more鈥攐r alternatively to reduce by elimination parts of a whole to achieve a different, better whole. Too many cuts leaves one with only waste. Just the right number result in, perchance, a miracle鈥攁rt.
Manifest offered this call to artists for works that address or feature cutting as a primary and dominant, but not necessarily exclusive, method of creation. All manner of interpretations and explorations involving the concept or examples of cutting were welcome, including traditional and non-traditional approaches in any media. For this exhibit 92 artists submitted 352 works from 31 states and 2 countries, Costa Rica and the United States. Eighteen works by the following 15 artists from 13 states were selected by a blind jury process for presentation in the gallery and the Manifest Exhibition Annual publication.
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Scissors, knife, saw, laser, CNC router, water... these and more may be used to cut materials to form useful, beautiful, or meaningful things, by design and artfulness. To cut is to take a simple action that may, as if by magic, turn one thing into two, many into more鈥攐r alternatively to reduce by elimination parts of a whole to achieve a different, better whole. Too many cuts leaves one with only waste. Just the right number result in, perchance, a miracle鈥攁rt.
Manifest offered this call to artists for works that address or feature cutting as a primary and dominant, but not necessarily exclusive, method of creation. All manner of interpretations and explorations involving the concept or examples of cutting were welcome, including traditional and non-traditional approaches in any media. For this exhibit 92 artists submitted 352 works from 31 states and 2 countries, Costa Rica and the United States. Eighteen works by the following 15 artists from 13 states were selected by a blind jury process for presentation in the gallery and the Manifest Exhibition Annual publication.
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