Atelier Cue is a collaborative design and fabrication studio specializing in place-making, community engagement, and the creation of architectural works of art. Partners Ioana Barac and Marissa Dionne Mead founded the Atelier as a stage for connecting the art of design and the craft of making. Essential to our method is a process of experimentation, prototyping, and fabrication which ensures a sense of both high-design and hand-craft in their work.

Each of their installations is influenced by the unique community, site, and architectural background in which it will come to life. Similarly, the design team is a creative collaboration led by Atelier Cue between client, community, and Cue's network of fabricators curated specifically for each project.

The Cue: from curlicue, a prevalent graphic in the visual and decorative arts which can be both precise and unpredictable.

Cathode ray televisions, LED monitors, digital scanners, laptops, desktop tower computers, digital photo frames, cell phone and smartphones: these are among many of the pieces of technology that Paul modifies and deploy in my practice as a new media artist. Most of these devices are used once they’ve become so ubiquitous in public life, that they are either offered up with deep discounts, passed along for free, or found curbside. These objects typically go through some form of physical intervention and manipulation, by way of the application of paint or adhering of a clamp in the minimal side, to stripping a device down to its bare bones electrical components, all the while allowing the devices to still be fully functional.

For the past three decades, Paul has worked on electronic, time-based media that avoid technology-heavy processes like coding and digital editing, and rely on basic computer / electronic components to exist in a minimal capacity.

I make work out of unconventional materials such as tarpaper, string, vinyl, foam and pom poms often combining them with paint. My work combines the handmade with industrial, and organic with geometric.. I explore how memories can be suggested, using form, color and pattern that incorporate nature, landscape, science, culture and more.

My work has been exhibited in museums and galleries internationally and nationally and can be found in corporate and public collections including Log-Me-In Headquarters in Boston, MA and Sloan Kettering Hospital in NYC.