Based in Brooklyn, David Kennedy Cutler is known for transforming and revealing the beauty in everyday materials. His practice blends sculpture, printmaking, and performance to address themes of survival, technology, and the human body. He is especially interested in exploring concepts of destruction and rebirth through the process of cutting, breaking, and recreating common and unremarkable materials into new forms. Cutler’s interest in the boundaries between physical and virtual realities is manifest in his 2023 project Hedge, which combines digital media and traditional materials to represent the interplay between the real and the virtual. In 2018, he participated in a performance installation that dealt with human survival and perseverance within specific contexts by becoming a “living sculpture.” The artist’s inquiries into identity, especially at the intersection of material and technological spaces, is salient to this exhibit because it reflects the multifaceted identities of contemporary individuals associated with diverse cultural backgrounds.