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We are pleased to present CUTS, a new suite of works on paper by Reginald Sylvester II. In these recent works, the expectation of a linear, rectangular base for painting is disrupted by curved cuts which split the works into two or three pieces or remove sections entirely. Positive and negative space is examined both in the application of paint on the picture plane and beyond, with the frame becoming a key component of the work which struggles to maintain a linear structure. A disintegration of traditional art materials first appeared in Sylvester’s large-scale works when the artist began …