{"id":4760,"date":"2016-04-18T14:25:40","date_gmt":"2016-04-18T18:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/?p=4760"},"modified":"2016-04-20T14:38:34","modified_gmt":"2016-04-20T18:38:34","slug":"artist-portfolio-lisa-mccutcheon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/content\/articles\/artist-portfolio-lisa-mccutcheon\/","title":{"rendered":"Artist Portfolio: Lisa McCutcheon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4761\" src=\"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/lisa-mccutcheon-pruning-day-series-2.jpg\" alt=\"lisa-mccutcheon-pruning-day-series-2\" width=\"700\" height=\"446\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/lisa-mccutcheon-pruning-day-series-2.jpg 700w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/lisa-mccutcheon-pruning-day-series-2-300x191.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/lisa-mccutcheon-pruning-day-series-2-600x382.jpg 600w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/lisa-mccutcheon-pruning-day-series-2-560x357.jpg 560w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/lisa-mccutcheon-pruning-day-series-2-260x166.jpg 260w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/lisa-mccutcheon-pruning-day-series-2-160x102.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Artist Portfolio: Lisa McCutcheon<\/h2>\n<p>The components Lisa McCutcheon uses in her collages are natural shapes filled with lines that mark their contours, in a muted variety of earth tones and shades of grey. The transparency of the elements is also key to the composition, where the built-up scenes mingle like smoke rising in a still room, or as algae swaying with the rising of the tide.\u00a0This effect is produced both with the use of Mylar sheets that highlight areas that have been overlapped and through the use of watercolours.<\/p>\n<p>A portfolio of Lisa McCutcheon\u2019s work appears in <a href=\"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/issues\/kolaj-15\" target=\"_blank\">KOLAJ #15<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To see the complete Artist Portfolio, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kolajmagazine.com\/shop.html\" target=\"_blank\">SUBSCRIBE to <em>Kolaj Magazine<\/em><\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kolajmagazine.com\/shop.html\" target=\"_blank\">Get a Copy of the Issue<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4762\" src=\"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/lisa-mccutcheon-pruning-day-series-5.jpg\" alt=\"lisa-mccutcheon-pruning-day-series-5\" width=\"700\" height=\"875\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/lisa-mccutcheon-pruning-day-series-5.jpg 700w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/lisa-mccutcheon-pruning-day-series-5-300x375.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/lisa-mccutcheon-pruning-day-series-5-600x750.jpg 600w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/lisa-mccutcheon-pruning-day-series-5-560x700.jpg 560w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/lisa-mccutcheon-pruning-day-series-5-260x325.jpg 260w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/lisa-mccutcheon-pruning-day-series-5-160x200.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>\u201cIn one recent body of work, the gnarled and anemic trees in my neighbourhood, victims of heavy pruning, were the influence for a number of large collages.\u201d<\/h2>\n<p>A portfolio of Lisa McCutcheon\u2019s work appears in <a href=\"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/issues\/kolaj-15\" target=\"_blank\">KOLAJ #15<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To see the complete Artist Portfolio, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kolajmagazine.com\/shop.html\" target=\"_blank\">SUBSCRIBE to <em>Kolaj Magazine<\/em><\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kolajmagazine.com\/shop.html\" target=\"_blank\">Get a Copy of the Issue<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Painter and collagist Lisa McCutcheon lives and works in the San Francisco Bay area. She earned an MFA from the San Francisco Institute of Art in 2002. You can see more of her work on her Kolaj Magazine Artist Directory page <a href=\"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/lisa-mccutcheon\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a> and on her website, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lisamccutcheon.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.lisamccutcheon.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Image (top):<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Pruning Day series, 2<\/em><br \/>\nby Lisa McCutcheon<br \/>\n60&#8243;x85&#8243;<br \/>\nmixed media collage on Mylar and watercolour on Yupo paper<br \/>\n2014<\/p>\n<p><strong>Image (centre):<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Pruning Day series, 5<\/em><br \/>\nby Lisa McCutcheon<br \/>\n31&#8243;x24&#8243;<br \/>\nmixed media collage on Arches paper<br \/>\n2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artist Portfolio: Lisa McCutcheon The components Lisa McCutcheon uses in her collages are natural shapes filled with lines that mark their contours, in a muted variety of earth tones and shades of grey. The transparency of the elements is also&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/content\/articles\/artist-portfolio-lisa-mccutcheon\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":4761,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9,45],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/lisa-mccutcheon-pruning-day-series-2.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2QTD7-1eM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6427,"url":"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/content\/articles\/encouraging-generosity-with-collage\/","url_meta":{"origin":4760,"position":0},"title":"Encouraging Generosity with Collage","author":"Christopher Byrne","date":"27 November 2017","format":"gallery","excerpt":"FROM KOLAJ #21 Postal-Collage Project Round Table [Collaboration] project founder Marty McCutcheon has begun work on Postal-Collage Project #7. 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