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Throughout
her entire artistic career, Amy has never lost her deep interest
in human anatomy. After finishing her undergraduate work she
attended the University of South Carolina where she began to
draw the body much more seriously. She has taught all levels of
drawing at the University of Wisconsin, specializing in Life
Drawing.
Artist Statement
"I think in
lines that wrap around forms.
A line wraps around the body.
The body’s energy travels each wire. How long can
the body be trusted? The flesh
ultimately fails, but what do we know of the spirit other than
what comes to us through the body?
These marks
are marks of love, time, and looking.
Sight and touch in the same breath.
Breath
and Hands are images of desire.
Eros demands more than pleasure.
Eros, in its truest sense, weighs us down.
Wrenched and Veiled reveal incessant
conflict with one’s own physicality, when one wants perfection
in flesh and spirit, but fails.
Portrait of my Mother and Portrait of my Father
are tributes to those who persevere.
The story
remains the same. The
body asks for its desires.
They are granted or denied.
The body persists and desire continues.
We want more
time, and more or less weight.
Have I ever
believed that story? The
one that says the flesh is weak and the spirit is strong. These
drawings are touch-prayers.
Through these lines I learn.
Artist
Vita
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