Volusia County Courthouse - Jerry Cutler

Wooded entrance, 2004
Oil

Jerry Cutler
Gainesville, Fla.
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A farm boy in rural Wisconsin, Cutler had a talent for drawing. At age 13, he announced that he would be an art teacher, though he had never met one himself. In high school Cutler took correspondence art courses through the University of Wisconsin Extension before receiving direct instruction from an art teacher, newly hired, in his junior and senior years.

He took his first degree at the University of Wisconsin- Stevens Point and took a teaching position with Platteville (Wisconsin) Public Schools. At the same time he began showing his paintings in juried exhibitions.  In 1977 he earned a master’s degree in painting from St. Cloud University in Minnesota and then taught there for two years. In 1980, he received a master of fine arts degree in drawing and painting from the Ohio State University. He taught at the University of Florida’s School of Art and Art History from 1981 to 2010.

Cutler's paintings have been exhibited in nearly 200 group shows and more than 30 solo shows.  His paintings are held in private, public and museum collections and his work is placed in numerous venues with Florida's Art in State Buildings Program.

“I am a landscape painter, that is, a painter who makes pictures or views of the land. Some landscape painters specialize in urban views some in agricultural. I, like many landscape painters, like to do views of nature and places where nature is relatively untouched by humans. Since I grew up on a farm I have also done images that include agricultural land. I hope that when people see my paintings they will have a new way to see nature. This is because I sometimes give emphasis to certain parts of nature that other painters might not notice. I guess this is what all artists try to do: to let others notice what they see as special or important about the world.” – Jerry Cutler