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floe

amy — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 04:02:44 +0000

New painting:

Floe
84.5″ x 48″
oil on canvas
2012

White Space

amy — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 03:51:12 +0000

New painting:

White Space 1
oil and oil pastel on canvas
10″ x 14″
2011

also on website

Of Land and Water

amy — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 01:36:59 +0000

I have work in the upcoming five-person exhibition Of Land and Water at the Noyes Cultural Arts Center in Evanston, Illinois.

Here’s the front and back of the postcard with the pertinent info:

Summer Studio

amy — Thu, 26 May 2011 02:19:14 +0000

Since school ended in April, I’ve been able to spend a lot of time in the studio. I have the help of a couple of students, one who made a big batch of stretchers for me, another who is doing all of the stretching and gessoing. It’s great to have so much help, which frees me up to work on some new paintings, all in progress. I’m working with images from Iceland and algae flows, and playing around with volcanic ash, mica and silver leaf.

Also I have the modest beginnings of a new web-based project: http://deltiophile.tumblr.com/
I’m using it as a place to post the postcards I collected while in Iceland, some collages, pages from my sketchbook and other visual sources for my work.

collaboration

amy — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 11:59:15 +0000

When I arrived in Iceland, it was my plan to make some gouache paintings of small, contained worlds, like the glassy images in these two pieces: Last Map: Osolith and Last Map: Divisadero on white or blue paper. However, on my first day in my studio, I found a collage of images from the Icelandic landscape left by a previous resident. As it depicts a self-contained world, I decided to copy it in gouache, as a sort of collaboration with this unknown artist. These are just studio snapshots. I will add more professionally documented images of the piece to my website when I get home.

We are running…

amy — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 04:34:53 +0000

Here are some images from my solo exhibition We are running… at Northeastern Illinois University’s Fine Arts Center Gallery. Much of this work appeared in my recent exhibition in at Pterodactyl in Philadelphia, but the postcard installation with the bottle of ash is new. The postcards are manipulated exhibition announcements from both solo exhibitions, mounted on Scrabble tile trays. The bottle contains sea glass and volcanic ash from the base of the Eyjafjallajökull volcano that erupted in Iceland this year. Exhibition details follow the images.

Amy Sacksteder: We are running…

October 4th-October 29th

The work included in this project is derived from the last moments of Amelia Earhart’s life and is used as a springboard to examine and confront mortality. The title is an excerpt of Earhart’s last words. The work is also influenced by the artists’s June 2010 residency in Iceland.

Artist Talk: Friday October 29th, 11am
Reception: Friday October 15th, 6-9pm

The Fine Arts Center Gallery
Northeastern Illinois University
5500 N St. Louis Ave
Chicago, IL 60625

The Gallery is located on the NEIU campus inside the Salme Harju Steinberg Fine Arts Center. Park in the lot the west side of campus via the entrances Foster or Bryn Mawr Avenues.

Directions here.

To see invividual images of pieces in the show, visit this page on my website.

new make

amy — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 23:21:13 +0000

Experiments with postcards from the show. I am starting to love multiples. The materiality of them is very satisfying in person.

installed

amy — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 22:53:36 +0000

Here are images from my show Our Improbable Existence at Pterodactyl in Philly. Here is more info about the show. The show was made possible by the support of the Philadelphia Art Hotel. To see individual pieces, peruse recent blog posts or visit my website. Off to the opening!

bring in the light

amy — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 02:57:52 +0000

More time in the studio = another finished painting. Now I need to figure out how to wrangle these three (and the rest of my schtufz) into the van for the drive to Philly. I head out Sunday and hope to stop in Pittsburgh to see some museums en route.

painting

amy — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 16:50:40 +0000

I have been painting a lot lately and it feels great. I used to be a painter exclusively and have come around to working in a variety of approaches and media depending upon what I want the outcome to be. But painting my first love and when I engage in it, it just feels right and it pretty much consumes me. I like the work I am making and am rather curious about it, as each piece is feeling like a discovery.

I have found that reading about painting and art in general gets me psyched up to be in the studio. I recently read Lives of the Artists by Calvin Tomkins, Inside the Painter’s Studio by Joe Fig and am currently reading The Daily Practice of Painting by Gerhard Richter and Mirror-Travels: Robert Smithson and History by Jennifer L. Roberts.