The WORK
Amy is a classically trained, figurative painter and an eternal dream worker. "I use my dreams as inspiration and cues to create work that expresses the visions and meanings within the dream space, a space that potentially reveals glimpses of the soul and universality".
Through dreams, a window to a creative subconscious, the poetic primary imagination is opened. Through my work, I push the continuum between the current and the timeless, the exact and the blurred boundaries, the individual and the shared experience, the real and disrupted real. I strive to push myself to explore and exploit that space between.
My art relies on research and experimentation, this freedom is what keeps me passionate about the process.
Through dreams, a window to a creative subconscious, the poetic primary imagination is opened. Through my work, I push the continuum between the current and the timeless, the exact and the blurred boundaries, the individual and the shared experience, the real and disrupted real. I strive to push myself to explore and exploit that space between.
My art relies on research and experimentation, this freedom is what keeps me passionate about the process.
The PAST
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Education
The School of Representational Art, Chicago Masters of Business, University of Illinois Bachelor of Arts, University of Wisconsin Workshops: Patrick Betaudier, Steven Assael, Stanka Kordik, Karen Offutt Dream Work Active Member Visual Arts Committee, International Association for the Study of Dreams (IASD) Member IASD since 2018 Intensive Jungian Dream Analysis-Ongoing, Workshops with Rodger Kamenetz, Karen Vischny, Mary Jo Heyen Self Guided Study and Research Ongoing Exhibitions 2022 IASD Dream Art Exhibition People’s Choice Award IASD Dream Conference Show, Honorable Mention 2020 Artless Bastard Gallery, Dreams , DePere WI, Group Show, Best of Show Award 2019 Old Courthouse Arts Center, Escape.The Art of What Could Be, Group Show 2019 Secondary Meanings Figural Diptychs, Zhou B Art Center, Chicago, Group Show 2019 8 x 8 Self Portrait Exhibition, 33 Contemporary Gallery, Chicago, Il, Group Show Addison Center for the Arts, Creative Insight 2018 Dream Space Gallery, Open Studio, Elmhurst,Il. 2017 Park Place Gallery, Portraits from Life 2016, Solo Show Elmhurst Art Museum, Artist Guild Group Exhibition 2014 South Haven Center for the Arts, Centered States, Chicago Art Salon 2012 South Shore Arts, Reassembled, Group Show 2011 Highland Park Art Center, Compilations, Chicago Art Salon, 2011 Addison Center for the Arts, The Resurgence of Representational Art, 2011 John Almquist Gallery: Shared Visions, Chicago Art Salon, 2010, North Park Art Walk, Chicago Art Salon, 2010, Primitive Annex: Improbability, Chicago Art Salon, 2010, The Chicago Art Salon: Kunst 10 Daagse, " Art Unites", Bergen Netherlands 2009 Barnsite Art Gallery Representation, 2008/2009 Linden Gallery: A Classic Approach to Figure Painting, 2008 Entre' Art Studio:Alternative Gallery Show 2008, Art and Soul Studio, 2006 Peter Jones Gallery; Group Figurative Show, 2005 Gallery 9: Calamity of Dust, Group Show 2004 Feltre School: Two Schools of Thought, Chicago, IL 2002 Purdue University: Atelier System, Group Show, 2002 |