Lorin Gallery is honored to announce the opening of "Abundance & Absurdity," a comprehensive solo exhibition of Alex Cutler's interdisciplinary oeuvre. On view from 10th June, this avant-garde display of Cutler's paintings, drawings, and poetry offers audience an expansive journey through Cutler's eclectic body of work, encompassing various genres and stylistic shifts. Cutler’s creative lens uncovers the intriguing relationship between the abundance and the absurdity that underscores our visual reality, offering a new paradigm that boldly challenges and embraces these extremes. Cutler's artistic practice, manifesting in a multitude of styles, invites audiences on a unique exploration of the dichotomies and paradoxes of our visual world. The exhibited works are an in-depth presentation of Cutler’s transgressive and non-traditional methods of an artistic reception facing a myriad of visual elements, weaving together disparate concepts, colors, and forms into a cogent visual tapestry. Through a layered pastiche of iconography, his compositions capture an array of images, objects, and typography that allude to the abundant and sometimes absurd facets of everyday life. To portray chaos is as important as creating a new order, just as recognizing the abundance is as significant as pointing out the absurdity. At the heart of Cutler's oeuvre lies a juxtaposition of stylistic elements that range from the mundane to the surreal. His creations are both an ode to and a critique of contemporary visual culture, striking a balance between the ephemeral and the eternal, the common and the exceptional. It's this creative tension that adds a distinctive allure to his paintings, drawings, and poetry, infusing them with vitality and depth. His studio practice emerges as a space where creativity knows no bounds, resulting in a harmonious amalgamation of motifs, color schemes, and forms that elevate the banal and celebrate the grand, fostering an aesthetic democracy where every element holds its own significance. Apart from the meta-images created in Cutler’s large-scale paintings, the smaller size drawings, which nonetheless carry an equivalent visual gravity, showcase a light-weight, flexible field for Cutler’s artistic experiments. In the same way that a novelist may start a trilogy with a paragraph, or a poet finds her tone with a line, Cutler’s drawings work as the preliminary stage for his grand visualization, a subdued, intentionally-reserved entrance to his otherwise overwhelming oeuvre. Originally these drawings were scattered in his numerous sketchbooks that he has kept in his studio, during his worldwide travel and formative years in the America Southwest, and they provide a precious glimpse into Cutler’s deconstruction and reconstruction using mundane visual elements. Adding depth to this retrospective, Cutler's private writings will also be on display. His poetry, a synecdoche of his mind's playful yet poignant rumination, underscores the symbiotic relationship between visual and literary artistry. His verse, often infused with humor and depth, offers a candid glimpse into the artist's cognitive terrain, a landscape of serious contemplation and playfulness. This integration of visual and written works provides a comprehensive view into Cutler's artistic processes, revealing the fascinating confluence of his conscious and subconscious explorations.