“Cutting Fine, Cutting Deep” (closing April 13), introduces viewers to parallel, complementary worlds of environmentally focused cut-paper art. Visit the University Art Gallery Sewanee page on Art Museum Touring.com. This link takes you directly to their page ((link...)).

Cut paper work, Ernst Oppliger

Organized and curated by Sewanee art professor Julie Püttgen, this exhibition showcases five artists from the Swiss Scherenschnitt (“scissor cutting”) tradition together with six contemporary artists working in North America. Drawing from traditional papercutting techniques, these artists create silhouettes, dioramas, stencils, paper lacework, pop-up drawings, and complex symmetrical designs. The resulting narratives present striking contrasts and similarities – from Ernst Oppliger’s profound environmental love affair with Swiss pastoral life, to Humberto Duque’s absurdist figures in dismembered landscapes; from Lane Twitchell’s dense Apocalyptic cities, to Ueli Hofer’s mythical Edens.

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