Cut Me Up Issue 17: Razzle Dazzle, curated by Craig Deepen Auge, is a selection of 18 artworks that explore pattern in both overt and indirect ways. Moving between natural, biological, and constructed systems, patterns emerge and dissolve, hinting at underlying structures, perceptual shifts, and hidden connections. Together, the works reveal systems of order and repetition as structures that both reveal and conceal meaning.

Curatorial prompts for Issue 17 artists:

Consider:

• Pattern emerging from repetition of minimalist forms; rhythm; echo

• Maximalist, all-over approach to pattern; atmospheric pattern; noise

• Decorative patterns; natural, conceptual, cultural, or emotional patterns

• Spiritual or cosmic patterns

• Pattern as code or shorthand; diagrammatic strategies

• The hypnotic potential of pattern, how it can distract or define

• Combining multiple patterns; mining from previous Cut Me Up issues and elsewhere

• All eligible submissions must incorporate some portion or portions of Cut Me Up: Issue 16.

Craig Auge’s original curatorial call for Issue 17 can be found here.

Issue 17 Cover Art:
Gaetano Rizzi

Issue 17 Artists:
allison anne
Laura Cannamela
Cheryl Chudyk
Clashing Squirrel
Jennifer Gatz
Antonio Ingenito
Christine Karapetian
Helen Kauder
Clive Knights
Chad Martinez
Janice McDonald
Sylvia Mueller
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Kirk Read
Savannah Ringleben
Gaetano Rizzi
Gary Rockhold
Katlin Schneider

All of the 99 response artworks made by 69 artists for Cut Me Up Issue 17: Razzle Dazzle can be found here.