Drawings from the Art Farm

My work concerns formal etiquette, established design rules, and the break down of language: I am interested in colloquialisms and how region informs a word’s pliability.
I find humor in phrases that reveal man’s compulsion to compartmentalize monotony; my drawings heighten this irrationality, and also pay tribute to my artistic training in fiber art, by working up a meditative line and by using a resist method to hollow out text.

Personal Paradise

Amy’s Personal Paradise
Screen shot/ studio shot
Apartmenttherapy.com entry of interior design contest
Completed September 2008

I analyzed the percentage of my time spent in the studio, which is where I spent my time reading, thinking, and making. My studio was the only sense of ownership over place. I personalized my turf by painting one wall; an earthy robins egg blue named Private Lagoon. Private lagoon was mine. It became an inside joke with my studio, while providing a metaphor for a placid workspace.
Without a result in mind, Private lagoon led me to paint all three walls in varying colors, by pursuing the interconnectedness of emotion and color in a domestic interior. I then decorated my studio to obliterate the line between a live space and workspace. I entered 10 pictures onto an apartmenttherapy.com contest, which challenged homemakers to decorate using fall colors. I entered my studio space as a studio apartment in Bloomfield Hills, MI.

Parenthis/ ease
Variable Dimensions

I like to play with words and grammatical structure in the titles of my work. This installation is constructed of sliced hand made paper, rolled into small circles and then adhered to one another. Then they were pinned to the wall in a corner to look like two parenthesis marks.

Fudgie
Popsicle sticks, Stamped text
Dimensions variable
Completed September 2008

Fudgie is a humorous approach to my interest in regional colloquialisms. When I traveled to the northern part of Michigan ‘Fudgie’, was a term used to identify a tourist. This cultural phenomenon is found often in my New England upbringing and implores me to reassess language’s dependency on location.

Working on more disclaimers and asterisks- Similar to this one, which I showed in my second year review.
*Electricity Not Included
Silkscreened Text, Painted masonite boards, dyed paintchips

Untitled (Salmon)
Nemaki Shibori
This piece is currently on temporary loan at Daimler Chrysler in Farmington Hills, Michigan. It is a type of resist dye method using acid dyes on silk knit fabric.

Picket fence
Screen-printed wall paper, molding, and laser-cut paintchip boxes
88 1/4" x 30"
Completed December 2008

These are the Paint chip Series that I started while I was at Cranbrook Academy of Art. I hand dyed gradated colors and silk screened fictional text to display a diaristic chronology, coded by the time of season. I began in January, being influenced by the gray and white Rafael Moneo building that I made the work in, and also by the bleak skies I experienced in my first Michigan Winter. As this series progressed, my color palette lightened throughout the spring months.
*As seen in Fiber Art Magazine

White I - VI

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An Homage

Painted Static Cling Vinyl on windows

29” x 48” each

Completed January 2009

Installation at the Insert Color Here show-
Titled Coffee and Cream
Do you know what I mean?

I think about this piece I made last spring a lot- I sold it within two days of completing it, which is great, but it did not leave much time to reflect on it. Time to revisit this idea.
Eternity
each panel is 8 x 10"
Silk-screened text on cotton

I am in an open studios event in Boston's South End this weekend. I have included the piece above to kick- start this new co op gallery in town.

I just found out that I will be in the Book, 1000 Artisan Textiles, due out next May!

First Blog ever

Good bye East coast for now, I am off to start a residency in Colorado. Check it out at :
www.art342.org