Cut Me Up Issue 6: Object Lessons
38 Pages
$14

Cut Me Up Issue 6: Object Lessons, curated by Michael Oatman, is a selection of 19 artworks that dimensionally expand upon collage methods to explore assemblage, sculpture and installation. 

Reflecting on the history of the found object as Readymade, as well as the importance of personal objects within our pandemic landscape, the artists in this issue have created artworks that serve many functions. There are objects of comfort, remembrance and protection. There are objects of play, several that can be assembled by Cut Me Up readers. Artists explore physical material as possibility, inspiring us to build, and to rebuild. Artists also explore the transformative potential of waste materials, objects we use and dispose of.

As Michael Oatman describes, these artists have “plunged into art history, dreamed of un-visited lands, fabricated pandemic wear, gene-spliced, mailed themselves to friends, invented architectures, hacked the still life genre, baked a pie, conned us, charmed us, calmed and alarmed us.” 

About Cut Me Up:
Cut Me Up is a participatory magazine of visual call and response founded by Andrea Burgay. Each issue presents a call—a curated selection of original collage images that will become raw material for reader-artists to respond by cutting, reconfiguring, and transforming them into new artworks. The newly created responses will form the content of the next issue.

Issue 6 Guest Artist: 
Mark Dion

Issue 6 Cover Artist:
Yura Adams

Issue 6 Artists:
Yura Adams
Todd Bartel
Lucinda Bliss
Heidi von Conta Howard
Carla Dortic
Natalia Drachinskaya
Rubén Frejo
Kathy Greenwood
Abigail Hunt
Clive Knights
Amy Mahnick
Daniel Mantilla
Melinda McDaniel
W. David Powell
Jeff Quinn
Lisa Sheets
Dana Sherwood
Karin Stack