Cut Me Up Magazine Issue 11: Souvenir

Written By Monica d. Church

Cut Me Up Issue 11: Souvenir, curated by Kathy Greenwood, is a selection of 18 artworks that expand upon the notion of the souvenir. While travel is often a reason for collecting such mementos, objects and images can signify all sorts of occasions and connections. Souvenirs can represent deeply personal experiences or be tokens of some shared public happening. They can even mark a fictional occurrence or something that is wished for. For this issue artists were asked to mine their associations with souvenirs while incorporating elements of Cut Me Up Issue 10: Reconnect.

The works included in this issue, and its companion in-person exhibition at Albany Airport, expand upon the notion of a souvenir as a travel trinket.

Magazine readers and airport travelers alike will discover new ways of thinking about the role objects can play in marking time.

Issue 11 Cover Art: Monica Church

Issue 11 Artists: Patty Armstrong, Sharon Bates, Todd Bartel, Laura Cannamela, Monica Church, Cheryl Chudyk, Susan Graham, Everest Hood, Tim Janchar, Stephenie Knight, Emily Marbach, Anthony Naimo, Michael Oatman with Tom Roland, Bradley Parsons, Lori Petchers, Lydia Selk, Lisa Sheets, Amy Talluto

Visitors to the Albany International Airport view the exhibition, "Souvenir."


Monica d. Church

Monica d. Church (b. 1964, Middlebury, VT USA) is an abstract artist who paints on repurposed sails. She lives and works in New York’s Hudson Valley where she sails on the Hudson River in a 1966 Ensign. She also works in printmaking, photography and collage.

Monica has a BA in visual arts from Bennington College and an MFA in painting from The University of Kentucky. Her works are in numerous collections including Manugistics, Rockville, MD; Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY; and Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY.

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