{"id":238203,"date":"2026-03-26T22:39:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T22:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/238203\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T22:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T22:39:08","slug":"annie-vought-at-traywick-contemporary-cut-paper-worlds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/238203\/","title":{"rendered":"Annie Vought at Traywick Contemporary: Cut Paper Worlds"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s a sign of something (a not-great something) when an arts writer develops a persistent eye twitch \u2014 in both eyes. <\/p>\n

In retrospect, the cause was clear: too many screens and not enough sleep. The twitch started because everything in my life was too sleek and digital, too up-close and glowing. I needed to gaze at distant vistas, or even medium-distance potted plants. I was doing neither. (It ultimately took two weeks of jury duty, enforced non-screen time, to put the twitch to rest.)<\/p>\n

Mid-twitch, though, I did experience some reprieve. Visiting Berkeley\u2019s Traywick Contemporary to see Annie Vought<\/a>\u2019s solo show opened and split<\/a>, I felt the sweet relief of absorbing actual texture, depth and detail through my eyeballs. <\/p>\n

Vought\u2019s 12 cut-paper works are intricate worlds created with a blade, oil stick, colored pencil, glitter, sequins, graphite and charcoal. Some of those worlds are small, just 12 by 9 inches of cut black paper. Others measure six feet tall, stunningly solid despite being made of such slight material. <\/p>\n

\"blackAnnie Vought, \u2018There is a loneliness that can be rocked,\u2019 2025; Hand cut paper, oil stick, glitter, sequins, glue, graphite, charcoal, colored pencil, ink. (Courtesy of the artist)<\/p>\n

The artist, who relocated to Santa Fe from the Bay Area, is incredibly adept at slicing through paper to create lace-like, mind-boggling compositions. Before making the body of work shown at Traywick, she translated handwritten pages of text into large-scale cut-outs. Pieces were held together by the meeting points of letter and line, all the while appropriating someone else\u2019s flowing cursive or gangly scrawl. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s a sign of something (a not-great something) when an arts writer develops a persistent eye twitch \u2014…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238204,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-238203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}