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"Difficult Extrication" (detail) gouache on paper, 30" x 42" |
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Statement: |
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For about the last eight 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. |
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Resume: |
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Education: |
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1994-1999 |
B.F.A.,
Painting major, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH |
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1998
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Yale Summer
School of Art and Music, Norfolk, CT (summer) |
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1992
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Pennsylvania
Governor’s School of the Arts, Erie, PA (summer) |
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1991-1994 |
School of the
Performing and Visual Arts, Erie, PA |
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Awards: |
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2007 |
Ohio Art Council Individual Excellence Award Grant, Columbus, OH
South Bend Regional Museum of Art, Biennial 24, 1st
Place, Juror’s Award, South Bend, IN |
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2006 |
National Arts
Program Exhibition, Kelly Randall Gallery, 1st Place Award,
Best of Show, Cleveland, OH |
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2005 |
National Arts
Program Exhibition, Kelly Randall Gallery, 1st Place Award,
Best of Show, Cleveland, OH |
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2003 |
The Vermont Studio
Center, Full Fellowship Award, Johnson, VT
Erie Art Museum, 80th Annual Spring Show, Juror’s
Award, juror: James Yood, Erie, PA |
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2002 |
Kroger Award of Excellence,
Art on View, Juror’s Award, juror: Petra Fallaux |
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2001 |
Erie Art Museum, 78th
Annual Spring Show, Juror’s Award, juror: Fred Wilson, Erie, PA |
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2000 |
Katherine and Lee Chilcote
Foundation Award for New Work, Drawn Together |
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1998 |
Ellen Battell
Stoeckel Fellowship- Yale Summer School of Art and Music
John Paul Wrobbel Painting Prize
Myrtle Waintrup Givelber Prize |
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1997 |
Selma A. Walzer
Painting Scholarship |
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Solo Exhibitions: |
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2007 |
Things Fall Apart,
Zg Gallery, Chicago, IL read reviews
Amy Casey &
Breehan James, Parish Hall, Cleveland, OH |
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2006 |
Strange Days,
Artist in Residence Exhibition, Zygote Press, Cleveland OH |
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2005 |
life as we
know it, Studio Warszawa Gallery, Cleveland, OH |
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2004 |
Creeping
Through, Dead Horse Gallery, Lakewood, OH |
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2002 |
Amy Casey, New
Paintings, Dead Horse Gallery, Lakewood, OH |
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Group Shows: |
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2007 |
Group Show, Zg Gallery, Chicago,
IL
24th Biennial, South Bend Regional Museum of Art, IN |
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2006 |
Leave 'Em Wanting More #4, 1300, Cleveland, OH
48 Hours of Art, BK Smith Gallery, Painesville, OH
3 Artists: Amathin, Amy Casey, Liz Maugans, E Gordon Gallery,
Cleveland, OH |
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2005 |
NEO+1, invitational, Murray Hill Galleries, Cleveland, OH
Amy Casey and Vesna Jovanovic, Roygbiv Gallery, Columbus, OH
Amy Casey and Lavely Miller, Miller + Weitzel Gallery, Cleveland, OH |
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2004 |
8-Hour Drawings, VII, Bowman and Penelec Galleries, Meadville, PA
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2003 |
Selections III, group show, SPACES gallery, Cleveland, OH
80th Annual Spring Show, regional juried show, Erie Art Museum, Erie,
PA
3 Artists, Cleveland Foundation, Cleveland, OH
Art on View, The Dairy Barn Cultural Center, Athens, OH |
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2002 |
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 |
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2001 |
1st Cleveland Biennial Exhibition, regional juried show,
CSU Art Gallery, Cleveland, OH
78th 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 |
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2000 |
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 |
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1999 |
Art for the New Millennium, group show, Grinning Byrd Gallery,
Cleveland Hts., OH |
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1998 |
Fellows Midterm, group show, Yale Summer School Gallery,
Norfolk, CT |
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1997 |
Wet Paint, group show, McCullough Center Gallery, Cleveland, OH |
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1996 |
Mutations, invitational group show, The Arcade, Providence, RI |
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Bibliography: |
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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
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2006 |
Douglas Max
Utter, New Edition, Cleveland Free Times, Sept 13-19, 2006
Dan Tranberg, Painter sees messages in shacks..The Cleveland
Plain Dealer, Feb 17, 2006 |
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2005 |
Douglas Max
Utter, The World As We Know It, Artefakt, Oct/Nov 2005
Lyz Bly, Creature Discomforts, Cleveland Free Times, March 2005
Douglas Max Utter, Amy Casey at Dead Horse Gallery, Art Papers,
January 2005 |
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2003 |
Amy Bracken
Sparks, Selections III @ SPACES, Angle
Magazine, September 2003
Dan Tranberg, Playful show remains provocative, The Plain
Dealer, July 30, 2003
Lyz Bly, Fractured Fairy Tales, The Cleveland Free Times, July
2, 2003
Karen Rene Merkle, Keeping the Faith, Erie Daily Times
Showcase, May 22, 2003 |
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2002 |
Amy Sparks,
And A Pig Shall Lead Them, Scene, Nov. 13, 2002
Dan Tranberg, Painter finds Meaning in the Minutiae of Everyday
Life, The Cleveland Plain Dealer, Nov.18, '02
Amy Bracken Sparks, The Stuff of Life, The Cleveland Free
Times, January 2002 |
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1996 |
Annie Rooney,
From RISD to
Rome,
The College Hill Independent, December 1996 |
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