Literally made by cutting into the canvas, my Cut-Outs are abstract process paintings that engage with formal concerns and exuberant colors to create tension between painted surfaces and loaded negative spaces. The players are the razor, the frame, gesture, and paint. The razor slices and obliterates, creating holes and negative spaces, leaving the canvas and painted surfaces fragmented and disjointed. Pieces of canvas push outside the frame, surrender to the frame, decorate the frame, wrap the frame, hang off the frame, and work to collapse the frame. In a tense dialogue with the constructed surfaces of gesture and paint, the framed negative spaces become loaded voids. The juxtaposition of these voids with the painted surfaces challenges conceptions of painting-as-verb and painting-as-noun, opening the site of painting beyond the frame.