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I'm always working and always have tons of new work to show and not enough time to update this site. Here are a few things I've been up to:
Several new drawings from the summer. You can look at them individually or just click through the set:
We walked along the edge of the river, 2007
The world was alive I could feel it, 2007
It was harder for girls, I think, 2007
Filled with light, 2007
A strange kind of courtesy, 2007
A distinct uncomfortableness, 2007
The universe has an origin, 2007
Our world is small and crowded, 2007
What did I know about things like the nighttime sky?, 2007
A sneak-peak of a stop-motion animation I am working on. As the disclaimer says, it is very far from being done. A few people have asked about it, so I'm posting it... and plus, this will motivate me to get it done!
Nightmare drawings created to calm myself down when I was freaking out. They have lightly written on their surface the name of something I love - trying to make a positive out of a difficult situation.
My homemade catalogs are available! Hooray! Email me for info. For $25 (or a well-meaning love offering of thereabouts), you get a cool print-on-demand book of my various projects. It's basically the same content as on this site, but I'm told that some people prefer old-fashioned books. And the covers of the catalog are handmade with much care! Email me! I'm not going to make a gazillion of these, so if you want one be sure and let me know.
Drawings based on the Christoph Buchel/Mass MOCA ordeal. Not so sure I really consider these to be art per se, but this is the page where people look to see new stuff, so I thought it was best to put them here. (Eventually I will move them over to "other projects" but for now, this seemed like the best place for them.) They will be published as part of the winter issue of Artlies, a contemporary art journal that comes out of Texas.
You can see the newest-of-the-new work, uploaded while I'm still making sense of it, here on my blog amywilson.wordpress.com.
Drawings from Spring/Early Summer 2007
In Feb 07. I started on a series of drawings loosely based on a quote that I love by Philip Guston, about the futility of being an artist while all around you the world goes to hell:
The war, what was happening to America, the brutality of the world. What kind of man am I, sitting at home reading magazines, going into frustrated fury about everything - and then going into my studio to adjust a red to a blue?
You can see a preview of the series here.
In November and December 2006, I worked on a variety of new projects, including this series of tiny collage drawings (click on each one to see the next), an as-of-now untitled series of new drawings and an installation in my hotel room during the Miami art fairs.
These drawings are from The Museum Series, from the Spring of 2006. I'm still working on the series, but you can see the first four images here. I've been thinking an awful lot about the power of images and the destruction of culture in a time of war, and that's where these drawings arise from.
This is Fair Trade, an accordion-folded artist book that was published by Diane Villani Editions. It tells the story of an anarchist text that I lost and then found, and of my ongoing relationship to this text, not only when I was actively reading it but when I had forgotten its existence and then discovered it again.
This is Honey to Ashes, a series of four drawings that were shown in Bellwether's booth at the NADA fair in 2005.
This is a series of drawings that were commissioned for the New York Foundation for the Arts website. I designed them as a straightforward introduction to some of my characters and themes, for an audience that would only be viewing the work on the web and may not have seen them before. To my mind, they wound up being a fairly accurate depiction of the isolation I felt while holed in up my studio during that miserably hot summer.
This
is some of my work from 2004
and 2005.
This is the drawing that was shown at The Drawing Center in September 2004, A Glimpse of What Life in a Free Country Could Be Like. I wish the scan was better.
