Anne Cutri - Fine Artist
SPECIAL NOTE ABOUT MULTIPLE CANVAS PRINTS: I SUGGEST YOU BUY THE PAPER PRINT AND THEN TAKE IT TO YOUR LOCAL FRAME SHOP AND HAVE THEM DRYMOUNT IT AND THEN CUT IT OUT ALONG THE IMAGE TAKING OUT THE BACKGROUND. THEN PICK THE MAT OF YOUR CHOICE TO MOUNT IT ON OR DISPLAY IT LIKE IT IS WITH A CLEAR LAMINATE.
You can purchase originals here at the website link to the right. I only have a few up so email me if you're interested in one that's not there and I'll put it up! Thanks and enjoy!
Anne Cutri has shown her work from Boston to Dallas and points in between. In past reviews, her work has been described as “. . . luminous, spinning, glowing celebrations of the universe housing its own consciousness as humanity...'( John Bender, 'In Pittsburgh) 'Cutri paintings communicate ideas of spirituality and metaphysics through her use of sweeping color, canvas juxtaposition, and diffuse imagery, merging Eastern and Western traditions in her vision' (Valerie Johnson, Little Rock Free Press) Most recently,Cutri ’s work embodies her personal mysticism, mystery married whimsical reverence. The thick strokes covered in rich oil glazes engage the observer in a very disarming way.
Decorative surrealism or symbolic abstraction, Cutri’s paintings are clearly the work of a visionary. Like all original voices, Anne Cutri was inspired by early influences. Odilon Redon, Jackson Pollock, William Baziotes, Mark Rothko, Agnes Pelton and many others particularly naive and folk artists, were her masters, but her first big influence was Georgia O'Keefe. In her early 20s, Cutri traveled to Taos, New Mexico, the little town where she lived. Cutri recalls, “She (Georgia O’Keefe) was still alive then, and I even found her house, but was told that she was moved to a hospital or nursing facility because of her health. I thought, why would she want to be bugged by me anyway? A better way to get to know her, would be to take in the landscape around me, and try to see what she saw. I then began to pray and meditate for her and thanking her for what she had given.”
Anne Cutri has been a practicing professional artist for over 30 years. Her paintings have been shown with Paul Laffoley at the Boston Visionary Cell (see American Visionary Art Museum) and Beth Ames Swartz and Nancy Azara at Sun Cities Art Museum. Other galleries and museums include but are not limited to: Frick Fine Arts at the University of Pittsburgh, University of Dallas, Arkansas Art Center, LaFond Gallery, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Trumbull Art Gallery, Rivermarket Art Space. Cutri is also featured in private and commercial collections, including a 15 painting commission for the pediatric office of Dr. Joseph Barber. Her children’s book illustrations, including the commercially distributed Henry the Hesitant Heron, reflect the same versatile whimsy as her two decades of painting.Cutri has written and illustrated three children’s books, and is currently working on a graphic novel.
If you are interested in the original painting, talk to me about price--it is negotiable. On the multiple canvas pieces, if you are thinking of buying a print, I suggest that you by a paper unmounted print and then take it to your local frame shop and have them drymount it to foam core and then cut out the print along the image of the canvas to eliminate the background,Then mount on a mat board a color of your choice. I tried to choose a neutral enough color for the background but really I designed the piece to work with the negative shapes the stretched canvases together as a construction makes and it loses something looking at it flat.
