Statement & Resume

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"Coalescing", acrylic on paper, 22" x 42 ½"

For about the last ten years, I've been experiencing a sporadically recurring dream about the end of the world. Animals stampeding and buildings falling into dust around me, I wake up in a panic and with a heavy sense of inevitability.  Although I'm not trying to recreate this dream in my work, I think that like my dream, my paintings reflect my view of the nervous state of affairs the world seems to be in.

Inspired by natural and unnatural disasters, personal fiascoes and the never ending stream of bad news coming in from the media, a relentless mob of curious plant-like creatures and other disasters have swarmed over the painted landscapes, threatening the creatures and life within. Like us, the creatures in my work stumble through the best they can; given their circumstances. Acting out of vulnerability they try to create security but sometimes, like us, end up kicking their own asses.  I am fascinated by the resilience of life. Every disaster is followed by rebirth, where we hike up our boots, duct tape our lives back together and try to cobble together a “plan b” out of what remains.

My paintings document my love of both the urban landscape, and small twisted creatures.

1994-1999

Recipient of the Emerging Artist of the Year, Cleveland Arts Price, Cleveland, OH
Recipient of the Creative Workforce Fellowship, Community Partnership for Arts and Culture, Cleveland, OH

Ohio Art Council Individual Excellence Award Grant, Columbus, OH
South Bend Regional Museum of Art, Biennial 24, 1^st Place, Juror’s Award, South Bend, IN

The Vermont Studio Center, Full Fellowship Award, Johnson, VT
Erie Art Museum, 80^th Annual Spring Show, Juror’s Award, juror: James Yood, Erie, PA

Ellen Battell Stoeckel Fellowship- Yale Summer School of Art and Music
John Paul Wrobbel Painting Prize
Myrtle Waintrup Givelber Prize

There Goes the Neighborhood,  Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH
Halpert Biennial 09, Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, Boone, NC
Clusterf*#k, group show, Zg Gallery, Chicago, IL
The Big Three, Michael Rosenthal Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Movers and Shakers, POV Evolving Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The American Scene, Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, Wilmington, DE

Infrastructure, Zg Gallery, Chicago, IL
Aqua Art Fair, Miami, FL
Painting Pink Pajamas, curated by Heather Brammier, Contemporary Art Center of Peoria, IL
Amy Casey/Amy Kligman / Minerva Ortiz, Project Space, Kansas City, MO
URBANIC: Sightlines and Microcosm, Moxie Dada, Pittsburgh, PA
Zg Summer Show, Zg Gallery, Chicago, IL
Living in Your Imagination: SPACES 30th Anniversary, SPACES gallery, Cleveland, OH
21st Annual McNeese National Works on Paper Exhibition, McNeese State University, Lake Charles, LA
Alex Lukas, Chris Pew, Amy Casey, White Walls, San Francisco, CA

Solo Exhibition, Dead Horse Gallery, Lakewood, OH
79th Annual Spring Show, regional juried show, Erie Art Museum, Erie, PA
Art on View, juried show, The Dairy Barn Cultural Center, Athens, OH
Things That Do Not Move, invitational group show, Dead Horse Gallery, Lakewood, OH

1^st Cleveland Biennial Exhibition, regional juried show, CSU Art Gallery, Cleveland, OH
78^th Annual Spring Show, regional juried show, Erie Art Museum, Erie, PA
Twenty-something,national juried show, Appleton Art Center, Appleton, WI
Galex 35, national juried show, Galesburg Civic Art Center, Galesburg, IL

PDA, national juried show, Eye Five Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Chroma, juried show, Marilyn Philby Gallery, Evanston, IL
Drawn Together, juried show, Reinberger Gallery, Cleveland, OH

2009

2008

Pleiades: A Journal of New Writing Vol 28. 2 2008,The University of Central Missouri, cover
The Plain Dealer, “Spaces’ 30^th Anniversary Show…” by Steve Litt, May 9, 2008
Cleveland Free Times, “Finding the Future, Spaces hits the big 30,” by D.M. Utter, p.24, 4/23-29/08, illustrated
New York Times, Illustrated in the Op-Ed Section, April14, 2008, pg. A27
Living in Your Imagination, Spaces 30^th Anniversary Exhibition Catalog, Illustrated, April-July, 2008
Muse: A Quarterly Journal of The Lit, Amy Casey, Featured Artists, Illustrated. Spring 2008

2007

Portfolio, angle magazine, #30 Jan/Feb 2007
New American Paintings, Issue 71, pgs. 28 - 31, Sept. 2007
Cleveland Free Times, “You Can’t Go Home Again” by Douglas Max Utter, Vol. 15, Issue 5, June 6, 2007
Cleveland Free Times, “Suspended Degradation” by Anastasia Pantsios, Vol.15, Issue 4, May 30, 2007
South Bend Tribune, “Outward orientation local museum's exhibition looks to the environment, culture, technology” Review by Evan Gillespie, March 25, 2007
Angle Magazine, “Portfolio,”#30 Jan/Feb 2007

2006

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2002

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