ARTIST STATEMENT

American Artist Amy Hutcheson’s works are a response to daily life. Each composition explores relationships between space, line, color and form. Exploring the world and the nature of visual representation she exams and reduces essential elements to their most basic forms. Not to simplify the form, light, line and color but rather to give the viewer the opportunity to have their own experience with each piece. Imagination has no boundaries except the ones we place on ourself. Our physical world limits us daily. Herwork invites you to allow imagination and the physical world to exist and become limitless together.

Many of her pieces reveal pencil marks to show the artists hand, inviting the viewer to extend their gaze along the picture plane. “My works are fueled by joy, music, physical movement and synesthesia. The marks that lay just under the surface reveal the most intimate aspects of the “self.” Each title of work further unveil hints and give pause to the viewer and invites them to forget their troubles to get lost in a joyful world of color, humor and mark making. Each piece becomes a transformative environment.

BIO

Amy Hutcheson was born in 1972 in Kalamazoo, MI. Her work has been exhibited in both solo and group exhibitions throughout the United States including, Globe Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM; LRoss Gallery, Memphis, TN, Mongerson Gallery, Chicago, IL; The Ground Floor Gallery Nashville, TN; and Jack Robinson Gallery Memphis, TN. Her work is included in several private and corporate collections including, Sedgwick, Memphis, TN; Horne, LLC Memphis, TN; Credit One Building, Chicago, IL; Askew, Nixon and Ferguson Architect Firm, Memphis, TN; and Theo’s Bistro, Memphis, TN. In 2012 Hutcheson received Best in Show, From The Ground Up, from The Ground Floor Gallery in Nashville, TN, and was a nominee for the Emmett O'Ryan Award for Artistic Inspiration, nominated by The Brooks Museum in Memphis, TN. Hutcheson received her BFA from Memphis College of Art and she currently lives and works in Memphis, TN.