On view July 7 – July 12, 2014
EBK Gallery [small works].
218 Pearl St.
Hartford, CT
Artist Amy Genser has worked with paper and paint to explore and pursue her obsession with texture, pattern, and color. Evocative of natural forms and organic processes, her work is organic and ordered. She uses paper as pigment and constructs her pieces by layering, painting, cutting, rolling, and combining paper.
The natural world is a clear source for Amy’s work. She is fascinated by the flow of water, the shape of beehives, and the organic irregularity of plants, flowers, rock formations, barnacles, moss, and seaweed. Her pieces bring to mind aerial landscape views, satellite imagery, and biological cellular processes.
Amy’s love affair with paper began in a paper-making course at the Rhode Island School of Design, where she received a masters degree in Graphic Design. Amy lives in West Hartford, CT with her husband and three sons.
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CV / Resume
Amy Genser
Education
Rhode Island School of Design Providence, Rhode Island
2001 MFA in Graphic Design
Washington University St. Louis, Missouri
1996 BA in History with College Honors
Minor in Graphic Communications
Exhibitions/Collections
Cornell Museum of Art and American Culture, Delray, FL
From Ordinary to Extraordinary: Paper as Art group show May – Sept, 2014
Affordable Art Fair
London/Hampstead June 12 – 14, 2014
EBK Gallery [small works] Hartford, CT Paintings and Paper July 7 – 12, 2014
Architectural Digest Home Design Show
New York City MADE section March 19-22, 2015
Past Shows
Long View Gallery, Washington DC
EnterTwined, Solo Show, Nov/Dec 2013 show catalogue
Coiled Terrain, Solo Show, Nov/Dec 2011
New Gallery Artists Group Show, 2011
Elisa Contemporary Art
Affordable Art Fair NYC, 2013, 2014
The Design Studio
Bridgehampton, NY, 2013
Cut, Rolled and Burnt. Manipulated Works of Paper, group show
Riverdale, NY 2013
Architectural Digest Home Show
New York City 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010
The Chase Family Gallery at the Mandell JCC
Solo Show Bloomfield, CT April/May, 2010
Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show Philadelphia, PA 2004, 2007
Washington Craft Show
Washington, DC 2002, 2003, 2004
Westchester Craft Show
White Plains, NY 2004, 2006, 2007
Craft Boston
The World Trade Center, Boston, MA 2004
Mark Gallery,
Quatro Cambridge, MA 2004
Katie Gingrass Gallery Art for the Office
Milwaukee, WI 2003
Society of Arts and Crafts
Retail Gallery Featured Window Artist
Boston, MA May 2002
Grimshaw-Gudewicz Art Gallery, Bristol Community College
Beneath the Surface: Rock Paper Threads,
six-woman Invitational Show,
Fall River, MA 2003
ACC Baltimore Craft Show
Baltimore, MD 2003
John Slade Ely House
Six-person Invitational Show
New Haven, CT 2002
Crafts at the Castle
Boston, MA 2002, 2003
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Small Works,
Providence, RI 2002
Gallery 402, The Organization of Independent Artists
New York, NY 2002
Silvermine Art Guild, Art of the Northeast, New Canaan, CT 2002
Collections
Meditech Corporation Canton, MA
Novartis Pharmaceuticals World Headquarters Cambridge, MA
Wellington Management Boston, MA and Tokyo, Japan
Fidelity Investments, Boston, MA
Davidoff London, UK
Yale-New Haven Hospital Park Street building
Flint Hill Public House Restaurant and Inn Flint Hill, VA
Coventry First Philadelphia, PA
MacGray Corp Cambridge, MA
Merecedes Benz
Kaiser Permanente