Amy Cutler

Lower East Side Printshop printed and published three prints by artist Amy Cutler during the artist's Publishing Residency Program in 2003.

Rug Beater: The women in the image are engaged in the monotonous chore of beating a rug, while the flying pigs are competing in a race. The race comes to an abrupt finish for the pigs when they collide with the women's rug paddles. The image is meant as a possible still taken from a larger story where the viewer is not aware of what happened before or what will happen after this peculiar scene.

Tiger Mending: This image deals with the concept of ideas personified by birds. The figures have bird houses for heads because this is where their ideas reside. The standing figure on the right with the billowing dress is either about to release a bunch of  "ideas" or is trying to hold onto them. The figure that is stradling the other figure in the center is either implanting or extracting an "idea" in the other's "head".

Birding: The image is based on a miniature Indian painting from 1590 that the Artist saw in a book. The painting depicts a great battle in the jungle between a prince's army and the tigers. The Artist picks up at the end of this battle and depicts a group of women mending the tiger's wounds with needle and thread while the prince and his men gallop off into the distance.