The Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) at the University of Pennsylvania is pleased to present the first one-person museum exhibition of drawings by Amy Cutler. Presented in the ICA's Project Space, this exhibition continues the museum's tradition of exhibiting the work of talented emerging artists.

In her finely crafted, highly detailed drawings, Amy Cutler creates surrealistic worlds where girls roost in trees like birds and women have tea kettles for heads. Floating in the midst of crisp, white paper, Cutler's scenes resemble children's illustrations that hark back to the Brothers Grimm. While these drawings are not meant to be literal translations of stories, they do speak to the tradition of storytelling that forms a part of childhood. In exploring these ideas Cutler has developed her own personal symbolism and her fantasies unfold with a recklessness that is both easy and inscrutable.

Cutler (b. in 1974, Poughkeepsie, NY, lives and works in New York) has had one-person gallery exhibitions at Miller Block in Boston, Massachusetts and at Leslie Tonkonow, Artworks + Projects in New York. She has also participated in group exhibitions at The Brooklyn Museum of Art and the New Langton Arts in San Francisco. This exhibition is curated by Elyse Gonzales, Assistant Curator, ICA.

The Opening Reception, which is free and open to the public, is scheduled for Wednesday, September 4, 2002 from 6:00 to 9:00 pm. Exhibition Walkthroughs will take place on Wednesday, September 4, 2002 beginning at 4:30pm. Amy Cutler and Elyse Gonzales, ICA Assistant Curator will be leading the tour of Amy Cutler's exhibition. The ICA is located at 118 South 36th Street at the University of Pennsylvania. The ICA is open to the public, except during installation, from 12:00 pm to 8:00 pm on Wednesday through Friday and from 11:00 am to 5:00 pm on Saturday and Sunday. Admission is $3 for adults; $2 for students over 12, artists, and senior citizens; and free to ICA members, children 12 and under, PENN card holders, and on Sundays from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm. For more information, call 215-898-7108/5911, or visit www.icaphila.org.