Amanda Witucki, working under the moniker The Paper Committee, is a self-taught paper sculpture artist who works out of her home studio in Austin, Texas. She creates large and intricate installations that are marked by bright colors and abundant texture. Witucki has been an active, exhibiting artist since 2018 with work featured in exhibitions throughout the country, most notably at the San Diego Museum of Art in 2023 and the Austin-Bergstrom Airport in 2024. Her work has been published in Tribeza Magazine, EASTside Magazine, and Create! Magazine.
Witucki’s works are creations of colorful, sculptural, and experiential pieces through paper folding and pleating. Dubbed as “ new school origami,” she breaks the rules of traditional origami by incorporating adhesives and cut paper to fashion her works. With an attraction to the accessibility of paper, Witucki relishes in the contrast of creating ornate and massive works from a humble material. Repetition, abundance, and a touch of whimsy are all present in her creations.
I get inspiration for color palettes from many sources: the internet; my dreams; other artists My favorite inspiration comes from graphic design and advertisements They often have bold, punchy colors, and I like expanding these into complex palettes.
Not Another Desert Mirage, 2025
Paper, Paint chips, Wood, and Plastic Net on Canva
Loud Girl, 2023 Paper & Paint on Canvas
So Tyte, 2023 Paper & Paint on Canvas
Sweet Tooth, 2020 Paper
Dad's Ugly Car, 2021 Paper & Paint on Canvas
This is a piece from my first solo show “Colors of the Season: Stories from my Mother’s Life.” I took specific memories, objects, and experiences from my mother’s past and translated them into color.
Genuinely Likes my Art, 2024 Paper & Paint on Canvas
I Thought I Liked your Soft Voice, but Actually I Can Never Hear You, 2024 Paper, Maps, & Paint on Canvas
CANVAS-BASED WORKS
Tomboy Femme, 2023
Paper & Paint on Canvas
Flowers for your Mother, 2021
Paper & Paint on Canvas
Neon > Pastel, 2024
Paper & Paint on Canvas
Yellow # 5, 2023
Paper & Paint on Canvas
SUSTAINABILITY
Early Flight, 2024 Paper, Maps, Plastic Net
In 2024, I exhibited my work in the Austin-Bergstrom Airport Wanting to expand my skill set, I stepped away from origami and created a ‘ paper textile’ using only paper scraps from previous projects. This installation inspired me to utilize sustainability in my art moving forward. Coming Fall of 2025, I’m excited to create a new body of completely sustainable work for a solo exhibition using single-use plastics and upcycled cardboard packaging.
Full Happy Belly, Early Flight Reimagined, 2025
Soft Morning Sun, Early Flight Reimagined, 2024
Once the aiport exhibit concluded, I upcyled the installation into several pieces on canvas. See above.
COMMISSIONS
Commissions are a big part of my art practice, and they are such a rewarding step out of my comfort zone. I can explore new concepts and techniques that I don’t normally work with, creating new palettes and inspiring new ideas.
Better Days Ahead, 2025 Paper & Paint on Canvas
Sunny Side Up, 2022 Paper
Fern Forest, detail, 2022 Paper
I began dabbling in representational creations after a large commission to create a fern forest complete with mushrooms and insects. I enjoyed it so much, it inspired a whole botanical detour for a few years.
This was my very first home commission! The encouragement of this client had a big hand in me pursuing fine art.
Magic Anniversary, 2023 Paper
Memory Sponge, 2023 Paper
Electric Banana, 2018 Paper
INSTALLATIONS
Made in 2018, this is the very first installation I created using the origami shape that is prevalent in my work. At the time I still considered myself an event designer, so I didn’t name this piece It’s now the first and only “Untitled” piece I’ve ever made.
C'est Une Méduse, 2021 Paper
SAN DIEGO MUSEUM OF ART |
I was honored to be chosen as a featured artist for the annual fundraiser at the San Diego Museum of Art’s “Art Alive.” The massive room transformation was diffficut to capture in photos, but each of the four walls had 10-30 feet long installations covering them. It was by far my largest project to date. My team and I folded over 5,000 shapes and it took a full 40-hour week to install the project
ART ALIVE 2023 | INSTALLATION PROCESS
I have a visceral reaction to color, and my job is to convey these unexpected relationships to the viewer. I play with nontraditional palettes, often showcasing pastels with earth tones, or including pops of tasteful neon to add tension and moments of pause.
About
AMANDA WITUCKI
512.709.0869
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Amanda Witucki is a paper sculpture and origami artist working from her studio in Austin, Texas. She creates works on canvas as well as large experiential installations She has created over three hundred original works, as well as dozens of commissioned pieces Active, exhibiting artist since 2018 with portfolio of work available upon request
Selected Exhibitions
2024 GROUP SHOW | George Washington Carver Museum, Big Medium Group Show | Austin, TX 2024 TWO-PERSON EXHIBITION | Highland Collective, Contrasting Threads | Austin, TX (with painter Kyle Saldaña) 2024 SOLO EXHIBITION | Austin-Bergstrom Airport, Changing Exhibits Program-Moore’s Crossing Gallery | Austin, TX 2023 JURIED EXHIBITION | 440 Gallery, Small Work Show | Brooklyn, NY 2023 SOLO EXHIBITION | Zilker Brewery, Paper Oasis | Austin, TX 2021-2024 Women and Their Work, Red Dot Spree | Austin, TX 2023 FEATURED ARTIST for Art Alive 2023 | San Diego Museum of Art | San Diego, CA 2022 JURIED EXHIBITION | Bower Center for the Arts, National Juried Paper Art Exhibition | Bedford, VA 2022 SOLO EXHIBITION | Caffe Medici, Tomboy Femme | Austin, TX 2021 SOLO EXHIBITION | Art for the People, Colors of the Season: Stories from my Mother’s Life | Austin, TX 2021 TWO-PERSON EXHIBITION | Contracommon Gallery, Séjour en Couleur | Bee Cave, TX (with painter Molly Knobloch)
Selected Commissions
2023 Retail Art Commission, Paper Sculpture, Conscious Capitalism | Cedar Creek, TX 2022 Retail Art Commission, Untitled, Paper Sculpture, 2LK Design | Brooklyn, NY
2020 Retail Art Commission, Sweet Tooth, Paper Sculpture Installation, Two Tarts Bakery | New Braunfels, TX
Publications
November 2022 "Artist Eye View" | Tribeza Magazine, p 46-47
Issue #30 | "Amanda Witucki," Create! Magazine, p 108-109
October/November 2021 | “Finding Purpose,” EASTside Magazine, p 28-29
Issue 19 | “Artist Spotlight: Amanda Witucki,” Almost Real Things Magazine, p 38-39
