Alex Sutcliffe (b. 1997, Chicago, IL) is interested in painting as an ever-evolving historical archive. Using altered Old Master compositions as his springboard, Sutcliffe employs a layering method of repeated painting and successive masking of the surface with stencils. The forms are alternatively concealed, revealed, and interrupted. This method emulates digital processes in an innovative use of common painting conventions, reflecting on the construction and alteration of images today and across time.