Cut is an exhibition of international artists who use found images from contemporary culture to create new and unsettling situations and forms. 

Ukrainian-born Danish citizen Sergei Sviatchenko references photomontage collage techniques of cutting and gluing, combining those fragments digitally to create his unique work reminicent of the 1920’s Russian avant garde. 

Heini Aho, a Finnish artist, creates videocollages of inhabited landscapes made from hundreds of scanned magazine photos and postcards, cut and combined on her computer. 

Canadian Paul Butler, organizer of the traveling international experimental group studio called The Collage Party (last seen in Seattle at the Henry Art Gallery in 2007) shows work which combine pages from esoteric magazines while utilizing the negative spaces to reveal surprising layers beneath. 

New York’s Raven Schlossberg layers ink drawings, acrylic paint, torn newspapers and images cut from vintage fashion and lifestyle magazines to create large, dense visual accumulations of pop culture imagery. Her work was last exhibited in Seattle in “Intercourse” at Platform Gallery. 

Jennifer Williams, also of New York, is influenced by her city surroundings with its recurring haphazard forms of “stuff”--from household items to construction debris-that appear and disappear on the streets and in alleys. Her collages for this exhibition are made of individually-printed photographs, carefully cut and pasted to recreate those vibrant sculptural piles of detritus.

Image: Untitled (Less) Sergei Sviatchenko, digital collage on matte paper, 16 x 23 inches, 2006

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