Amy Pryor
Primary Medium: Collage
Other media: Drawing, Pen, Paint, Installation
Amy Pryor
Email: hiamypryor (at) yahoo (dot) com
Website: http://www.amypryor.com
Artist Statement
In my studio, piles of paper trimmed from junk mail, ad circulars, bills, forms and packaging are materials for construction. As consumer and examiner of the language of capitalism, I clip and save, organize and re-use the printed matter that saturates the topography of my life.
Works are shaped through intense collaging, painting, layering and excavation of surfaces. I think of my work as landscape. One that is shaped through its material content--that is in some way an anthropological survey of the world in which I live.
I utilize both formal and linguistic strategies--visual and verbal pathways when making works. I often begin with accumulations: adjectives, prices, barcodes, recycling symbols, etc..., that when amassed achieve a visual density that is static-like, restless and more-or-less homogenous. It is through these ever-evolving strategies that I am able to explore the intersections and the enticements of the institutions that structure our world-views.
Other media: Drawing, Pen, Paint, Installation
Amy Pryor
Email: hiamypryor (at) yahoo (dot) com
Website: http://www.amypryor.com
Artist Statement
In my studio, piles of paper trimmed from junk mail, ad circulars, bills, forms and packaging are materials for construction. As consumer and examiner of the language of capitalism, I clip and save, organize and re-use the printed matter that saturates the topography of my life.
Works are shaped through intense collaging, painting, layering and excavation of surfaces. I think of my work as landscape. One that is shaped through its material content--that is in some way an anthropological survey of the world in which I live.
I utilize both formal and linguistic strategies--visual and verbal pathways when making works. I often begin with accumulations: adjectives, prices, barcodes, recycling symbols, etc..., that when amassed achieve a visual density that is static-like, restless and more-or-less homogenous. It is through these ever-evolving strategies that I am able to explore the intersections and the enticements of the institutions that structure our world-views.
Selected Works
|  Must-Have - 2009 - magazine paper, barcodes, starburst advertisement - 8 5/8" x 7 5/8" - $250.00  Less Than - 2009 - magazine paper, adjectives, starburst advertisements - 12 x 16 - $300.00 [Fundraiser]  wicked - 2008 - text, starburst advertisements, acrylic, paper - 7 x 10 - $250.00 [Fundraiser]  Amber Waves - 2009 - meter marks, manilla envelopes, text, magazine paper, acrylic - 6 1/8 x 5 1/4 - $225.00 [Fundraiser]  (important news) - 2009 - ink, acrylic, junk mail, paper - 12 x 16 - $350.00 [Fundraiser] |
Artist Bio
AMY PRYOR
www.amypryor.com b. 1973
EDUCATION
2001 Yale University, MFA Painting/Printmaking, New Haven, CT
2000 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
1996 Ohio University, BFA Sculpture and Art History, Biology minor, with Departmental
Honors in Art, Summa cum Laude, Athens, OH
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2009 Living and Dreaming, AIM 29, The Bronx Museum of Art, Bronx, NY
X, Mixed Greens, New York, NY
2005 The Space Between: Rachel Beach, Rob Carter, Amy Pryor,
Anne Polashenski, William Wegman, Mixed Greens, New York, NY
2004 Secret Life, group exhibition, Artspace, New Haven, CT
2002 Snapshot, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
and the Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD 2000
2001 MFA Thesis Show, Yale School of Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
Economy of Means, Kirsten Hassenfeld, Amy Pryor, Thad Simmerly, Artspace/untitled(space), New Haven, CT
2000 Second Year MFA Show, Yale School of Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
Norfolk Group Exhibition, Yale Summer School of Music and Art, Norfolk, CT
Laundromat Show: Karl Haendel, Rodney McMillian, Amy Pryor, Skowhegan, Maine
1999 First Year MFA Show, Yale School of Art and Architecture Gallery, New Haven, CT
Conversation Exhibition: Guy Goodwin and Amy Pryor, Art Resources Transfer,
New York, NY
Wendy Bruce, Amy Pryor, Heidi Reszies-Lewis, NOVA, Northern Virginia Community College, Woodbridge, VA
AMY PRYOR
AWARDS
2008 AIM fellow, The Bronx Museum of Art
2007 The Viewing Program, The Drawing Center, NY, NY
2001 Helen Winternitz Award, Yale School of Art
2000 Matching Fellowship, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and Yale School of Art
1994 Harriet Anderson Memorial Award, Ohio University School of Art
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Goings on About Town: ART: Bronx Museum of the Arts, “Living and Dreaming. The 29th Artist's in the Marketplace Exhibition, The New Yorker, June 29, 2009. http://www.newyorker.com/arts/events/art/2009/06/29/090629goar_GOAT_art
Peng, Qi, ASSASSINATION: Amy Pryor, Artist and Printer at Two Palms, examiner.com, April 29, 2009
Yoshida, Yoko Yamazaki, Space Between, new-york-art.com/garou-mix-spacebetween.htm, August 2005
Lane, Eva, Untitled (space) Shows Spunk in New Home, Yale Daily News.com, Sept. 15, 2000
PUBLICATIONS
A.R.T. Press, 2002, Limited edition Piezo print.
WORK EXPERIENCE
2005-present, Printer, Two Palms Press, NY, NY
2008-present, Adjunct Professor, Drawing, Etching and Engraving, Parsons the New School of Art and Design, NY, NY
2006-2008 Adjunct Professor, Color Theory and Two-Dimensional Design, Queensboro Community College, City University of New York, NY, NY