Amy Reckley
Grand Rapids, Michigan
Amy Reckley is a multidisciplinary artist working in drawing, painting, screen printing, and installation art.
MessageAmy Reckley is a multidisciplinary artist working in drawing, painting, screen printing, and installation art. Her work embodies the investigation and process of building up and tearing down any surface. This direct action leads her in an inquiry of the complex language of contemporary drawing and painting. Often on the cusp between the representational and abstract, Reckley references architecture and landscape as a way of placing both time and experience on a single plane.
Reckley has exhibited throughout the United States and internationally. She has recently installed site-related works in the Big Santa Anita Canyon, California and at The Symphony in the Foothills Gallery in Kansas. Other significant exhibitions include The Soap Factory in Minneapolis, the Loveland Feed and Grain in Colorado, and the Saugatuck Center for the Arts in Michigan. Her residency awards include the Barstow Artist-in-Residence at Central Michigan University, ART342, and Ox-Bow Summer Schoo of Art and Artists’ Residency.
Amy Reckley received her MFA in Drawing from Colorado State University, a Post- Baccalaureate Certificate in Painting and Serigraphy from SACI College of Art & Design in Florence, Italy, and a BA from Kalamazoo College.
Reckley lives and works in West Michigan.
Statement
I consider my entire studio practice an engagement in the contemporary discourse that combines two and three dimensional practices in an expanded definition of drawing. I am interested in the potential and instant where space, location, and time teeter between reality and imagination. This is where drawing becomes object and action, decision and process, noun and verb.
Materials, marks of engagement and recognizable surfaces make up a familiar language that is meant to encourage the viewer in finding a common emotional/psychological/spatial relationship. Formally, parts of drawing (space, line, composition, movement, mark making) hold the structures together. Conceptually, the work comprehensively and concretely depicts what is not there - a sense of movement or potential energy in a stationary situation. Formally, the work speaks of process. Conceptually, the work relies upon implicit meaning.
Borrowing fragments from the natural and constructed world, my work is never completely representational nor abstract. In drawing, painting, screen printing and installation I explore the abstraction and psychology of space and scale, and the accumulation of form and material. For me, drawing is the most immediate visual method of inventing, expanding and articulating simultaneous realities. It embodies the investigation and process of building up and tearing down any surface.
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