Krista Reuter

Krista Reuter is a Michigan-based artist (born 1970) recognized for hand-cut and hand-torn layered paper works that blur the line between drawing and sculpture. She earned her BFA at Iowa State University and continued her studies at the Royal College of Art in London. Before her current studio practice, she served as program director for the Saugatuck Center for the Arts for six years.

Reuter works with paper as a medium with what she calls infinite potential — folding, tearing, piercing, cutting, embroidering — and builds undulating surfaces separated by air so that shadows form from the edges. She uses hand-torn paper, oil stick, flashe paint, and cold wax. The work shifts as the viewer moves, soft gradients falling across raised edges; abstract patterns and shapes found in nature are her recurring themes. She has shown repeatedly at JG (Bainbridge Island and Park City) since 2018.