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"Value 5, A"
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Michael DeSutter’s collages are playful, precise studies in color, form, and the quiet power of what’s left unsaid. Working with hand-cut shapes, DeSutter builds compositions that feel both spontaneous and intentional—balancing vibrant fields of color against expanses of negative space. It’s in these open areas that the work breathes, inviting the viewer to consider how absence shapes presence. Each collage becomes a conversation between solid and void, edge and interruption, where even the quietest moments hold compositional weight. In DeSutter’s hands, abstraction becomes an active practice in restraint, rhythm, and visual clarity.
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Michael DeSutter’s collages are playful, precise studies in color, form, and the quiet power of what’s left unsaid. Working with hand-cut shapes, DeSutter builds compositions that feel both spontaneous and intentional—balancing vibrant fields of color against expanses of negative space. It’s in these open areas that the work breathes, inviting the viewer to consider how absence shapes presence. Each collage becomes a conversation between solid and void, edge and interruption, where even the quietest moments hold compositional weight. In DeSutter’s hands, abstraction becomes an active practice in restraint, rhythm, and visual clarity.
Artwork Information
Year
2024
Materials
Original collage
Authentication
Signed by Artist
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Dimensions
ARTWORK DIMENSIONS
12 x 16 inches
FRAMED DIMENSIONS
12 x 16 inches
Floated: 16 1/2 x 20 1/2 x 1 1/2 inches
Unframed: 12 x 16 inches
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About the Artist
Michael DeSutter
DeSutter's graphic & meditative collages have been featured in Full Blede and AnOther Magazine. His original collages are currently featured at Pharrell's The Goodtime Hotel in Miami. DeSutter practices includes considering the overlooked within old magazines, he uses these records of the past to consider and recontextualize the future.

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Michael DeSutter’s collages are playful, precise studies in color, form, and the quiet power of what’s left unsaid. Working with hand-cut shapes, DeSutter builds compositions that feel both spontaneous and intentional—balancing vibrant fields of color against expanses of negative space. It’s in these open areas that the work breathes, inviting the viewer to consider how absence shapes presence. Each collage becomes a conversation between solid and void, edge and interruption, where even the quietest moments hold compositional weight. In DeSutter’s hands, abstraction becomes an active practice in restraint, rhythm, and visual clarity.


BOBBY BERK ON MICHAEL DESUTTER
“From a distance, this piece feels quite simple and straightforward. But when you look up close, it's a complex and really engaging work that has a lot of layers to it.”
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