Artist - Amy Cutler

I first connected Amy Cutler's name with her work at the American Folk Art Museum's "DARGERism: Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger" show last month. Her large and detailed paintings of women, often with long braids and dresses, in large like clusters stood out among the many Alice-inspired works. (I was reminded frequently of the photographer Anna Gaskill throughout the show.) I just checked out a book from the library, Ms. Hempel Chronicles - by Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum, probably only because a Cutler painting was on the cover. And today, the new issue of Cabinet arrives in the mail "Shame" with a spread of Amy Cutler works. Her work is so appealing as it chronicles female experience with fairytale themes and exquisite precision. Cutler live in Brooklyn.

Update - Ms. Hempel Chronicles is a very good book, I read it in one evening. It is a collection of corresponding short stories, one called "Yurt" that I actually read in the New Yorker a while back.