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woodblock prints, Persian miniatures, and Indonesian designs. She admits that she isn't necessarily “true to the source” as she picks and chooses elements from the source material, while also expanding on it. Ceremonial textiles based on Indian and Chinese designs are worn by some of the characters Cutler has created. The artist has stated that some of her work is inspired by her rejection of traditional gender roles in her 30s, when she chose to buy her own house instead of getting married and having children. Motherhood, though an inspiration for several of her works, is shown from a third-party perspective as the artist is now a mother. She has said of her art involving motherhood that “You ignore the woman...the woman is the life support".
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Cutler's style is characterized by intricate and linear figurative drawings, her figured are often depicted with elongated noses teapot heads, and broomstick arms. Cutler's painting work features negative space frequently around her characters, showing her desire to “...get rid of the background”,
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The characters in Cutler's prints and paintings will often be wearing elaborately patterned clothing. Cutler utilizes culturally-inspired patterns from women's clothing from around the world. She draws inspiration from sources as varied as U.S. military survival manuals, nature books, Japanese
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and archetypes. Her women characters are frequently paired in scenes with household items, wild animals and hybrid creatures. Despite her figures' childlike appearances they exhibit darker themes such as poverty, social injustice and violence.
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style clothing, doing familiar "women's work". Using this, she creates strange narratives that play off of known
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which she credits for her choice to switch from painting on wood to primarily painting with
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Cutler's drawings, paintings, and prints often focus on groups of women, dressed in
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Cutler's work is in the collections of many museums and institutions including
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Cutler has held several solo exhibitions including museum shows at the
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Global Feminisms New Directions in Contemporary Art
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Poughkeepsie, New York
Cooper Union School of Art
The Cooper Union School of Art

The Phillips Collection
Victorian
fairy tales
gouache
Art, Design & Architecture Museum
Huntington Museum of Art
Weatherspoon Art Museum
Bowdoin College Museum of Art
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina SofĂ­a
Indianapolis Museum of Art
Institute of Contemporary Art
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art
Walker Art Center
MOMA
Indianapolis Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The New Museum of Contemporary Art
The Whitney Museum of American Art
Smithsonian American Art Museum




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