Amanda Clyne
 
Artist Information
   

 

Images breed images in me.” – British painter Francis Bacon

Inspired by images of fantasy, glamour and seduction, my paintings confront the feelings of desire and longing inherent in our experience of images.  I am interested in the evolving dialogue between images of the past and present, and examining the continued role and relevance of painting within this context.  The pop artists and photo-realists of the 1960s and 1970s began to challenge the assumptions regarding the medium-specific traits of photography and painting by painting photographic images that, according to Michel Foucault, produced “not a painting based on a photograph, nor a photograph made up to look like a painting, but an image caught in its trajectory from photograph to painting.”  My paintings continue this work.  Referencing the many lenses through which our world is transformed into illusion – the eye, the mind, the camera, the screen – my paintings are invitations to linger and look and experience the sensation of seeing anew.

Michel Foucault, “Photogenic Painting” Gilles Deleuze and Michel Foucault, eds. Gérard Fromanger: Photogenic Painting (London: Black Dog Publishing Limited, 1999) 83-105, 91.

 

 
  Representation: p|m Gallery (www.pmgallery.ca)
     
  Art Education:

OCAD (The Ontario College of Art and Design), Toronto
- B.F.A. with distinction (Drawing and Painting major)

    School of Visual Arts, New York
       
  Scholarships/ Awards: April 2009 OCAD Drawing and Painting Medal, Graduating Class 2009
    April 2009 Nora E. Vaughan Award
    April 2009 David L. Stevenson Scholarship
    April 2009 Spoke Club Membership Prize
    June 2007 Elizabeth Blackstock Scholarship, Women's Art Association of Canada
       
  Solo Show: March 2007

David Kaye Gallery - "Trusting Desire"

       
  Group Shows: May 2010 Art School (Dismissed) - installation with Michèle White
    April 2010 Art Gallery of Ontario's Art Rental & Sales Gallery - "Merge"
    March 2010 The Artist Project, Toronto - "Untapped Emerging Artist Exhibition"
    October 2009 OCAD, Toronto - Whodunit? Gala Auction
    September 2009 Board of Directors Gallery, Toronto- "Dreamers and Screamers"
    July/August 2009 Domaine Grand Cros, France - "A Celebration of Canadian Art"
    June 2009-10 Daimler Financial, Toronto - "Experiencing Perspectives"
    May 2009 OCAD Graduate Exhibition - "OCAD+"
    February/March 2009 Toronto Music Gallery - "Permeate"
    August 2008 Elliott Louis Gallery, Vancouver - "Emergence"
    July 2008 Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition (Juried Show)
    June 2008 Xpace Cultural Centre - "When Lightening Strikes Twice"
    May 2008 Living Arts Centre, Mississauga - "Emerging Artist Exhibition"
    November 2007 Canadian Textile Museum Shadow Box Exhibition
    October 2007 Casey House Art Auction, Toronto - "Art with Heart"
    July 2007 Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition (Juried Show)
    February 2007 Sandra Goldie Gallery, Montreal - "20 x 20"
    November 2006 OCAD Student Gallery - "Surroundings"
    October 2006 David Kaye Gallery, Toronto - "Textile Tendencies"
    July 2006 Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition (Juried Show)
    May 2006 Gorilla Monsoon, Toronto - "Contemporary Collage"
    January 2006 OCAD Great Hall - "Contemporary Collage Methodologies"
     
  Commissions:

Astra Zeneca Pharmaceuticals Inc. commissioned a large painting for its Canadian head office in 2006.

     

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