CURATOR FAVORITE

Barbara Kuebel

Austrian artist Barbara Kuebel seeks to challenge the boundaries of twodimensional art through her life-sized paintings and woodcut prints. Human forms bend and stretch to creatively fill large canvases, resulting in abstract images that speak to Barbara’s ultimate source of inspiration: the endless ways two entities can knit together and combine into one monumental shape.

Barbara participated in The Other Art Fair, London, in 2022 and was a selected artist at the Tokyo International Art Fair in 2021.

“I use cutting tools for my woodcuts the same way I would a pencil. I see myself almost as a sculptor, as my cutting process is closest to three-dimensional art. My subject matter starts from the idea of a knot, where two parts can combine into endless possibilities.”