Amanda Witucki, working under the moniker The Paper Committee, is a paper sculpture artist that creates large and intricate installations, as well as smaller pieces on canvas. Dubbed as "new school origami," she breaks the rules of traditional origami by incorporating adhesives and cut paper to fashion her works. Sustainability is a big part of her practice: scraps from one project become the sole paper used in the next project, and even smaller scraps are used for even smaller creations. Her work is marked by bright and complex color palettes, and her large-scale installations are marked by a sense of playfulness and whimsy.
"It is truly liberating to create something beautiful that was destined for a landfill. Once you embody this mindset, everything becomes useful and a potential player for your art practice: whether it be materials used in the art, packaging for shipping the art, or the building blocks to something totally new."
EDUCATION
2010
University of Kansas, Bachelors of Arts
GROUP & SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025
SOLO EXHIBITION 1301 Gallery, UPCOMING SEPT 13-27, Austin, TX
GROUP EXHIBITION Paggi House, UPCOMING SEPT 17th-Dec, Austin, TX
2024
GROUP SHOW, George Washington Carver Museum, Big Medium Group Show, Austin, TX
TWO-PERSON EXHIBITION, Highland Collective, Contrasting Threads, Austin, TX (with painter Kyle Saldaña)
SOLO EXHIBITION, Austin-Bergstrom Airport, Changing Exhibits Program-Moore’s Crossing Gallery, Austin, TX
2023
JURIED EXHIBITION, 440 Gallery, Small Work Show, Brooklyn, NY
SOLO EXHIBITION, Zilker Brewery, Paper Oasis, Austin, TX
FEATURED ARTIST for Art Alive
San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA
2022
JURIED EXHIBITION, Bower Center for the Arts, National Juried Paper Art Exhibition | Bedford, VA
2021
SOLO EXHIBITION, Art for the People, Colors of the Season: Stories from my Mother’s Life, Austin, TX
TWO-PERSON EXHIBITION, Contracommon Gallery, Séjour en Couleur, Bee Cave, TX (with painter Molly Knobloch)