Toni Glotter is a Minneapolis based multi media artist. Her clean conceptual style is influenced by her earlier career as a graphic designer. Toni’s education from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design emphasized concept and purpose first. Her curiosity of different mediums always keeps her mind open to mixing mediums and exploring new ones, including encaustic painting, photography, printmaking and collage.

Toni sees art as a communication tool to start dialogue or simply to touch an emotion of the viewer.

ARTIST’S STATEMENT

I believe art is vital to the quality of human life. There is so much destruction around us.  Creating is my small contribution of balancing out what we destroy.
I use materials normally discarded and recycle them by reconstructing them in a new way to give them a new life and meaning. Newspapers, magazines, discarded prints; all can be broken down, cut, folded, twisted into new dimensions. With my “Papercuts” technique I take print media and cut the paper into strips. They are then folded and glued onto a substrate like pieces of a puzzle. What you see are the folded edges. When stacked the color or tone of the folded edges make up the image you see.
The constant flow of information through our communication tools is never ending, but our way of receiving news has changed drastically and in the end, newspapers and magazines may soon be obsolete. By using those materials I am preserving history in an abstract way.