David Kennedy Cutler (b. 1979, Sandgate, VT; lives and works in Brooklyn, New York) moves between painting, sculpture, photography, and digital processes. Using materials such as printed images, fabric, plastic, wood, and metal, he builds compositions through cutting, layering, and assembling. His process begins with photographs taken in his immediate surroundings, which are digitally manipulated, transferred, and reworked into physical structures that combine flat and three-dimensional elements. Cutler’s work often draws from everyday objects such as clothing, furniture, food, and plants, which are scanned, replicated, and transformed through repeated acts of construction and distortion. Surfaces are bent, folded, cut, and reconfigured, blurring distinctions between image and object.
David Kennedy Cutler holds a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design.
David Kennedy Cutler has been exhibiting at the Gallery since 2009. He has had solo exhibitions at Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton (2021); Essex Flowers, New York (2020); Centre for Contemporary Arts, Tallinn, Estonia (2016); and Nice & Fit, Berlin, Germany (2006). He has also been in numerous group exhibitions nationally and internationally. Cutler’s works can be seen in public collections at the Whitney Museum of American Art Library, New York; Rhode Island School of Design Museum; Yale University Haas Family Library Special Arts Collection; Brooklyn Museum; Chazen Museum of Art, Wisconsin; and the Wellin Museum of Art, Hamilton College, among others.