Around the studio

22nd Annual Fergus Scholarship Award Exhibition

Exhibition Date: Saturday, January 11, 2014 - Thursday, January 30, 2014

Reception: Saturday, January 25, 2014, 5-7PM

Exhibition view

Taped Figure / 8'10"x 7'8"/ Digital print, board

Blanket / 2'x4' / Digital Print, tar

Lawn Chair / Concrete, Chair

Leg / 15'x 36" / Concrete, wood

 

The next generation of the figures in space.

Standing Figures - with Jacci Delaney and Zac Weinberg

Standing Figures- with Michael Mercil

3RD YEAR - of graduate school.

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My current research consists of deconstructing sex and gender.  I’m innately curious about sexual orientation and whether or not this is a given or something achieved through life experience. Through my own gaze as a woman I’m conducting artistic experiments through digital representation of my body.

            Gender is a type of “doing, “ as Judith Butler states it. There are many questions I’m rooting through such as, what does gender want? Does gender exist because of social norms? Does the outside world determine oneself? What is the materiality of the body? I strive to Challenge the norms of sexuality and gender through abjection and psychosis. Can I delegitimize “sex”? The ways in which I’m approaching this subject is by stripping the body of gender clues and denying them norms of our society. The images are larger than life with the largest figure standing at 8 feet tall.  This puts the gaze higher setting the figure in the position of power. The figures eyes stare back at you with intensity. I’m interested not specifically in the “male gaze”, or the “female gaze”, but questioning what is my “self gaze.” 

Summer Work- It's that Hunty Hunt

This is a new direction that I'm taking by using my image in addition to other materials and collaging them together. Better images to come...

 

 

Specific Tasks

This is a collaborative video/performance by both myself and Kristen Coburn. The title is Specific Tasks because we had two separate scores:

Kristen: Do work

Amy: Fill it

These scores were our only limitation and the video was born out of those restrictions.

Materials used: 25lb bags of flour, random tools, glass bottles and jars.

Here is a link to the video, but its best displayed the way it looks in the picture below.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTkVwHajUv8 

Installation view

Video still

  

Video still

Post-performance images

 

 

In the Dark: Rooms to Let Temporary Art Space

In the Dark imagines the possibility of art in total darkness, positing that not all work can or should be witnessed through incandescent light, or even light at all. Each artist involved is provided with a single room, a designation for site-specific installations and performances.

On this one-night exhibition, the public will be provided with a single flashlight upon entering. Attendees will peruse the dark house, encountering choreographed dance, melancholy drumming, and art strung from the ceiling.   ---> http://roomstolettemporaryartspace.com

 I chose a bathroom and a bedroom to create site specific installations in. I had to work in complete darkness for the installation using flashlights to see what I was painting.

Me and Myself: bathroom Installation

Title: Black and Light: Stripes were cut out of center of body to create a striping light.

A light shines through the figure reflecting light on to the viewer and onto the wall opposite.

the reflecting light from figure on opposite wall.