Annie Vought

The work of California-based artist Annie Vought explores the notion of emotional artifacts through intricately cut paper. Often focusing on handwritten text, including found notes and letters, Vought transforms these written objects through a process of dissecting negative space with an Exacto knife. Through this painstaking process of elimination, Vought is able to investigate, “into people’s inner lives and the ways they express their thoughts through writing.”

Vought has shown her paper cut pieces and other works at a number of exhibitions in the Bay Area and abroad, including Unspeakable Projects, San Francisco, New Image Art, Los Angeles, Simonetta, Florence, Italy, Yurba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, Cornell Museum, Florida, Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA, Museum of Craft and Design, San Francisco, and the Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum, Arizona. In 2014 Vought was awarded an Irvine Fellowship, Montalvo Residency.