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Travis Ivey // cutout

by Lorin Drexler · Mar 17, 2019

Travis Ivey // cutout

Travis Ivey (a.k.a. Hank) – Featured Artist

cutout

the heart is a cutout scene
a landscape of burning ash 
and streamers
a mountain of neon tape
a battered city in collage
filled with discarded
versatile solutions
to modern living

the feeling comes like an orchard
abundant with thousands of
animate fruit anthropomorphics
dancing in the wind
splayed in song and
graffiti along the roots
of civilization—
a habitat divided by man and god

each individual piece
attaches through cement vines,
seeds and all, and displays
another spectrum of the tirade
colorwheel.
a shade in the bouncing
aftermath of the sun
and the aftermath
of that aftermath
and each recurring
moment leading before
and into the next

the clouds shiver
waiting for this dream
to pass.
it never does

the city continues to
unravel as the horizon
changes shape.
the naturescape continues
to unfold without any consent or
reflection of awareness

it is all so pure
so alive
so present
so… effortless

by LORIN DREXLER


Travis Ivey (a.k.a. Hank)

travisivey.com

This Phoenix-based artist, 39, who earned his Master of Fine Arts degree at Arizona State University in 2017, uses scissors to shape the inside of recycled envelopes into streetscapes. He also cuts up tape (duct, packing, painter’s) into colorful landscapes and abstract pieces. His first brush with the non-traditional medium happened at age 21 in Montana – his home state – where he started taping cigarette ash into contemporary designs on cardboard.

Ivey also paints the traditional way, as “Hank,” his alter ego, who works with acrylics and oils in plain air. One of Hank’s works, a landscape featuring the Grand Canyon’s North Rim, hangs at the Downtown FOUND:RE Phoenix hotel.

Currently, Ivey is experimenting with merging his two artistic personalities. The result is lightly lined geometric patterns of paint that form a new kind of landscape.


What is Gen Society?

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