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About the Artist The paintings of Amy Banker continue and extend the tradition of the New York School. Her oil and acrylic paintings assert, in their energetic gestures and colors, the ongoing strength of a style which remains vigorous and also truthful in regard to contemporary urban life, in particular that of New York. Banker, a New Yorker who studied with Knox Martin for ten years, has developed an idiom which recalls the vigor and hue of the vigor and hue of the Abstract Expressionist masters, de Kooning and early Pollock especially. At the same time, her forthright, engaging style takes its cue from nature, her recent efforts include a study of an aloe plant, an apple orchard even a boy on a bicycle. Banker’s method, then, lies in a painterly treatment of real things, such that the abstraction never becomes a flight of its own. Her brushstrokes project feeling in the form of affection for the physical act of painting, its ability to record the gesture as a material decision. At the same time, her art seeks a grand ground, one in which color and composition are used for their ability to connect with a mythic truthfulness. While Banker’s logic remains resolutely painterly, her art speaks to a search for the real, as much as it exists in mind as it does in nature, While her art reflects the formal and psychological investigations of a woman coming to terms with many influences among them philosophy, poetry, music, and myth she remains committed to painting, its ability to convey feeling and thought, the world that is real and the world that is imagined. - Jonathan Goodman
Artist Statement I work in a variety of mediums: acrylic, oil, pastels, aquarelle, oil sticks, varnishes, glazes, finishing and surface techniques. I am exploring basic issues of opacity, color, form, depth, obfuscation and revelation in life, language and in art-I cannot help but be influenced by philosophy, poetry, literature, psychological symbolism, fairy tales, music, myths, conceits, and metaphors, especially of strong feminist models-women's conflicting roles in a changing time throughout the centuries. I am using background in design, 2nd and 3rd dimensional techniques and aesthetics. My background is integrated with my writing, psychology, my early childhood and life experiences evolving as a woman and mother combining international study to explore these issues in an organized but abstract way. I tend to reinvent the same themes, work from a structure and then proceed by distressing, demolishing, recreating and saving. My major themes are inner restoration and survival, challenging always reality vs. myth.
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Amy in her studio. |
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Amy is featured on the podcast series The Artist's Studio. Click here to view |
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"Recognizing the aesethetic and intellectual impact of women on the visual arts and culture." |
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