The artistic potential of a material as simple as paper is often overlooked, and one which artists Nava Lubelski and Lane Twitchell delight in exploring.
For Lubelski, such an exploration involves transforming and unravelling paper’s ordinary appearance to create something wholly new. “Paper is in such abundance and is so often wasted that I was interested in finding a way to use it artistically and honor its past even after it becomes ‘useless’.”
Creating illusions and mirroring life’s difficult questions, paper art for Lubelski stands as an allegory of rebirth.
For Twitchell, paper art is study of content and soul that is expressed through countless and varied painting and cutting techniques. Her artwork seeks to emphasize what she perceives as being the paper artist’s fundamental goal, and that is to provide creative divergences from daily monotonies.
“Distraction, as Woody Allen says, is the best an artist can hope for.”
