Map Collages by Matthew Cusick

Dallas-based artist Matthew Cusick cuts pages from old maps and arranged in layers creating these stunning paintings.

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"Maps have all the properties of a brushstroke: nuance, density, line, movement, and color.... [And] since each map fragment is an index of a specific place and time, I could combine fragments from different maps and construct geographical timelines within my paintings."

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"I am a painter and a collagist. I work with glue and printed material as well as acrylic paint and ink."

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"The printed materials that I work with derive from archaic educational and cognitive sources, such as maps, atlases, encyclopedias, and school textbooks. I am drawn to the ephemeral nature of this printed information and the latent content that surfaces over time."

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"I like to catalog, archive, and arrange information and then dismantle, manipulate, and reconfigure it. My creative process is informed by the visual properties and informative complexities of the material I am using."

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Check his website: http://mattcusick.com/