Thank you to Claire Putney for introducing us to the work of Matthew Cusick. [image_with_animation image_url=”5955″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”]

Matthew Cusick

“Cusick uses atlases for his powerful collages, uniting pieces of the landscape that are actually quite far apart to create his own new world. Armed with scissors and a craft knife, the artist playfully rearranges the fundamental organization of modern society.” – Claire Putney [image_with_animation image_url=”5952″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] “Maps provided so much potential, so many layers. I put away my brushes and decided to see where the maps would take me.”  – Matthew Cusick [image_with_animation image_url=”5954″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] “I think collage is a medium perfectly suited to the complexities of our time. It speaks to a society that is over-saturated with disparate visual information. It attempts to put order to the clutter and to make something permanent from the waste of the temporary. A collage is a time capsule; it preserves the ephemera of the past. It reconstitutes things that have been discarded. A collage must rely on a kind of alchemy; it must combine ordinary elements into something extraordinary.” – Cusick

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