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oil, pastel, charcoal on canvas Currently housed at MAS Interior Design in Oakland, CA This was the last canvas for [Lack of] Being and one that I worked over and over. Unlike most of the others this image was not premeditated and my vision formed as the painting progressed. The space it creates might seem ominous, but the forest is a place where I feel the most content. I grew up near the Appalachians, an ancient, lush, and nurturing setting. The woods were my exploratorium, and a source of imagination and inspiration. I would wander for hours not knowing where I was going, but never got lost; I always found a direction to go in and followed it whole-heartedly. [Lack of] Being was a show at Hatch Gallery Oakland and included installation and painting. It is a dialogue of shattered truths that destroyed the self. After this destruction the previous self is non-existent, and in it's place a state of non-being. It is a place where all one's notions, groundings, pieces of the heart and mind are floating in a nothingness. Time ceases to exist. Creation has yet to begin. It is after the end but before the beginning. it is vulnerability but possibility. It is the existential human condition; existence without essence: a loss-of-self while still inhabiting a confined temporal existence.
2013
Oil on Canvas
One-of-a-kind Artwork
81 W x 54 H x 2 D in
Not Framed
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Rhea Cutillo is a contemporary artist concerned with the human-nature relationship and wide open spaces both in the physical, ecological world and in the internal, cerebral realm. She has exhibited across the United States and internationally, including the Alexandria Museum of Art, Yellowstone Art Museum and the award-winning festival List í Ljósi. Her work is in private collections across North America and the U.K. She is a graduate of The Barnes Foundation Museum Barnes-de Mazia Program, Philadelphia PA; Mills College, Oakland, CA (B.A. 2011); and attended the Leroy E. Hoffberger Graduate School of Painting at the Maryland Institute College of Art. Rhea Cutillo is both an artist and herbalist. Her studies at The School of Evolutionary Herbalism, Oregon, and the East West School of Traditional Chinese Medicine, California have informed her worldview of natural reciprocity and the need for ecological and cultural reconciliation. Currently a Dean's Merit Scholar at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design, her projects focus on the importance of embodied knowledge to understand space and place. Her work stems from a recognition that it is not just the biosphere that is disappearing, but our heritage and communion with the land is in question as well. In 2022, her work was published in New American Paintings Magazine #138 and PXV Art Mag #5. In Spring 2023 she lectures and exhibits with Philadelphia Water Works on the impacts of climate change.
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