Paper Craft Artist Research

 

Artist Research - Annie Vought

After researching through some of the artists provided on Mosaic and through my own internet searches, I came across the artist Annie Vought. She is an American artist living and working in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her work with paper revolves more around paper-cut pieces than paper-craft, but for the purposes of this research I believe her work is important because it shows the range in capabilities that paper provides. It can be very sturdy and geometric but also extremely delicate and detailed, almost like a fabric. Her work pictured above, titled Gosh I've been here before is a sheet of paper with details cut out of it until it resembles an oversized doily. 

This piece is titled 1993, and is a hand cut letter sized paper. I particularly like in this piece how the shadows have been used to create depth and a layered perspective. 

In a lot of Vought's work, she highlights the traditional use of paper, that is to hold the written word in order to communicate. I like how she maintains the history and utilitarian aspect of the material, while also elevating it into higher art. By cutting the paper she takes sketches into the 3D sculptural world, and that play between the two fields of art is very interesting to me.  

In the above piece, titled my imagination fills in the blanks of your life, Vought took her late father's sketchbook and added in paper cut details of words of his past letters, creating a collaboration with his memory. I think this is another great example of the emotional weight that paper can carry, or the notion of using found paper that already has artwork or words on it.

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