Amy Cutler

Who is Amy Cutler?

Amy Cutler is a contemporary artist born in Poughkeepsie, New York, in 1974. Cutler is an internationally known artist and is represented by the Leslie Tonkonow Gallery in New York City. She received her BFA degree from The Cooper Union School of Art, New York, New York, in 1997, and her MFA from The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Madison, Maine, in 1999.

Cutler's drawings, paintings, and prints often focus on groups of women, dressed in Victorian style clothing, doing familiar "women's work". Using this, she creates strange narratives that play off of known fairy tales and archetypes. Her women characters are frequently paired in scenes with household items, wild animals and hybrid creatures. Cutler's painting work features negative space frequently around her characters, showing her desire to “...get rid of the background”, which she credits for her choice to switch from painting on wood to primarily painting with gouache on paper.