AT THE MOMENT
I've been very busy this year! At the moment I am splitting my time between graphic design work, teaching, and studio time getting ready for my upcoming solo show at Betty's in Buffalo (tentatively titled simply, "Ghosts". The opening reception is on Monday, May 17th and I hope I will see you there! Once that's up, I will focus my attention on the next exhibition, another one-person in Binghamton, NY at ArtMission that will feature my house paintings.
I offer classes and lessons in drawing, painting, mixed media work, and bookbinding. 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. 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.
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 where others see blight and neglect. In my paintings, I reveal the currents that still run through houses, objects, and people as residue of the past.