AT THE MOMENT
It's that time of year... for me not so much celebrating holidays, but reflecting on what was and what could be. 2009 was a breakthrough for me, and I was granted some great opportunities to show my work and continue to teach.
2010 has much to look forward to. I have a couple small solo exhibitions coming up in Buffalo, NY and in Binghamton, NY; I will also continue to teach at the Buffalo Arts Studio, the Burchfield-Penney Arts Center, and the Western New York Book Arts Center, as well as selected community education programs in the western New York area.
If you'd like to notified of future class offerings, or would like to arrange for your own class with your friends, or private lessons, email me or call 716.901.3291.
BIO
Amy Greenan studied painting and drawing at SUNY Purchase (BFA), and the University at Buffalo (MFA). She currently practices her art and lives in Niagara Falls, NY, in a modest but endlessly inspiring Arts & Crafts bungalow near the Niagara Gorge with her boyfriend and three cats. In addition to teaching classes and workshops at the Burchfield-Penney Art Center, the Buffalo Arts Studio, and the Western New York Book Arts Center, Amy is an adjunct professor at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh's online division. She is also a graphic designer at Prometheus Books in Amherst, NY.
As an unwavering advocate of the DIY (Do It Yourself) movement, Amy has also been making zines (self-published, photocopied magazines) and books as an alternate art form for over a decade, is a member of the Western New York Book Arts Collaborative, and has participated in the Buffalo Small Press Book Fair and Canzine in Toronto, Canada.
She has exhibited her paintings, drawings, prints, books, and zines locally and nationally, and her work is included in private collections in the US and Canada.
STATEMENT
Disappointments and shortcomings are at the heart of the human experience. Through the decaying bodies of abandoned and neglected houses, I am reconstructing a collective past and those events that occurred within it—real or imagined, dreamed of or heard about. It's an exploration that is at once intimate and universal. Many of us have experienced a house's power over the the way we construct and inhabit our daily lives.
Woven into simple visual narratives, an infusion of nostalgia, confusion, and longing helps to extrapolate a story from morsels of truth—so that it might become something else entirely. I see beauty in these houses where others see blight. In my paintings, I reveal the currents that still run through them as residue of the past.