Description
Call to Gather by Amy Fenton
acrylic on wood panel
30 x 36 inches
Year created: 2024
Description: A woman of color dressed in a blue, red, and yellow dress, wearing a hat, lifts a yellow and red cloth into the air. Human figures surround her on a yellow and white background.
Connection to theme: This piece, “Call to Gather”, is a summoning of all to come together in solidarity, hope, and peace, for the upholding and safekeeping of the Earth and its people.
Artist Statement: I’d like to provide the viewer with a snapshot…a moment in a story…provocative and elusive…With a mystery that leaves one curious about what comes next or came before.
Improvisational in nature, my work is evolutionary.
Similar to freeform or interpretive dance I choreograph as I go, building upon and flowing into the next brushstroke,…with rhythmic interludes…The impulse of the movement informs my direction with visual cues to bring the piece to its resting place.
This piece, “Call to Gather”, is a summoning of all to come together in solidarity, hope, and peace, for the upholding and safekeeping of the Earth and its people.
Bio: Amy Fenton
Kingston, NY-based visual artist, Amy Fenton, has been developing her way of seeing for decades. Amy previously spent years touring the world as a dancer with the critically acclaimed “Fiddle Puppet Dancers”, a percussive dance company that innovatively reinterpreted traditional dance forms. The “Fiddle Puppet Dancers” were chosen by the Smithsonian Institution to represent American culture in Japan.
Amy brings the same impulse as expressed in her dancing, a well-composed ensemble of elements, to her visual art.
As a starting point, with photography, Amy captures the rich beauty of the natural world, old buildings, and impressions of daily life.
It is with the same sensibility, that her collages, mixed media work, and paintings emerge. She has developed a strong sense of design with which the elements of the artwork don’t merely exist on their own, but truly become intertwined into a satisfying and elegant conclusion.
Amy exhibits her work locally and it is included in private collections.
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