elise wehle's textured cut paper compositions

elise wehle’s intricate cut paper collages
all images courtesy elise wehle

american artist elise wehle‘s compositions are a series of collaged images that adopt a spectrum of tactile mediums for their creation. by weaving paper together, cutting lines, and folding shapes, wehle manipulates drawings, photos, and prints to create expressive landscapes. the artist incorporates intricate embroidery and tiny geometric cuttings into photo transfers, fabricating a novel, tactual reality for the existing pictures. the hand-cut designs are synthesized with layers of an assemblage of mixed media, transforming the images into distressed and textured compositions. often, the imagery references history, nature geography, capturing the personality of the place, space, and time period.

 
‘moth wings’

at scope miami 2015, aureus contemporary presents a selection of cut-paper works by elise wehle. 

‘the woman bouguereau painted’

‘observation of a leaf’

‘the gardener’

‘behind scenes’

‘the tide’ (left), ‘girl looks back’ (right)

‘the building on the corner’ (left), ‘spanish moss’ (right)

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