INSTALLATION VIEWS


IMAGINARY FRIENDS, AT BLUELINE ARTS, ROSEVILLE, CA NOV-DEC 2024

Imaginary Friends:  A Retrospective

Consisting of the Air, Land, And Sea Series, with bodies of work in the Baggage, Boats, and Site/Sight Lines Series

Imaginary Friends is the culmination of three series over 2023 and 2024 all connected by the examination of diving into family, self, perceptions, and the search for answers and understanding, challenging my own perceptions of what is near or far, up or down, past or present.  Finding solace in the simple and raw forms, repetitious meditative weaving and knotting, and finding a safe space and a place of calm, Imaginary Friends emerged.

The Baggage series explores the baggage we carry over time, that accumulates, that we hold onto, and that we discard, examining family lineage and generational baggage.

In the Boat and Site/Sight Lines series’, the boats sit with the rawness and stillness of time, with the site/sight lines of the horizon in the distance, directing their course. The rawness of the boats become vessels of my present; sitting, carrying, holding, or transporting, but these boats do not float and cannot sail.  The materials outline their capacity to voyage and inform their fate.  The combination of the contradictions in this, open the spectrum of dichotomy of materials; each lending way to soft, hard, heavy, light.  The boats hold my present, and the sight lines of the simplistic, stripped down, almost architectural building blocks, give view to the unknown future, while the oceanic ink paintings document horizons in the distance. Almost watching from above as observers or guides, hang the insinuation of birds or air dwellers, all connected by raw materials and often stitched together by a thread, while below as if underwater, organic barnacle-esque forms sit still in the calm. 

Combined as an installation as a whole rather than one piece individually, this exhibit combines and transforms narratives of past, present, and future, connecting and integrating old and new Imaginary Friends.

AIR, LAND, AND SEA, AT THE ART STUDIOS ON I STREET, SACRAMENTO, CA, JULY 2024

Air, Land, and Sea

            Air, Land, and Sea is the culmination of a series informed by process and intuition, led by the connection of raw materials, simplicity, and time. The boats sit with the rawness and stillness of time, with the site/sight lines of the horizon in the distance, directing their course. The rawness of the boats become vessels of my present; sitting, carrying, holding, or transporting, but these boats do not float and cannot sail.  The materials outline their capacity to voyage and inform their fate.  The combination of the contradictions in this, open the spectrum of dichotomy of materials; each lending way to soft, hard, heavy, light.  The boats hold my present, and the sight lines of the simplistic, stripped down, almost architectural building blocks, give view to the unknown future, while the oceanic ink paintings document horizons in the distance. Almost watching from above as observers or guides, hang the insinuation of birds or air dwellers, all connected by raw materials and often stitched together by a thread, while below almost underwater, organic barnacle-esque forms sit still in the calm.  Combined as an installation as a whole rather than one piece individually, this series challenges perceptions of reality of what is up or down, near or far, air, land, or sea.

Air, Land, and Sea is the culmination of a series informed by process and intuition, led by the connection of raw materials, simplicity, and time. In Amy Vidra's solo installation she features mixed media boats, sculptural plaster site/sight lines and oceanic ink paintings, while almost watching from above as observers or guides, hang the insinuation of birds or air dwellers and lying below almost underwater, organic barnacle-esque forms. Combined as an installation as a whole rather than one piece individually, this series challenges perceptions of reality of what is up or down, near or far, air, land, or sea.

BAGGAGE, BOATS, SIGHT LINES: THINGS THAT SEEMINGLY DON’T GO TOGETHER BUT DO, ELK GROVE FINE ARTS CENTER, ELK GROVE, CA, MAY 2024

Baggage, Boats, Sight Lines:Things that seemingly don’t go together but do

            Baggage, Boats, and Sight Lines are three series informed by process and intuition, led by the connection of raw materials, simplicity, and time. The baggage we carry, as vessels, becomes our past and our history, informing our present and future.  Building off of that rawness, the boats become vessels of my present; sitting, carrying, holding, or transporting, but these boats do not float and cannot sail.  The materials outline their capacity to voyage and inform their fate.  The combination of the contradictions in this open the spectrum of dichotomy of materials; each lending way to soft, hard, heavy, light.  As the baggage holds my past, the boats hold my present, and the sight lines of the simplistic, stripped down, almost architectural building blocks, give view to the unknown future.  All connected by raw materials and often stitched together by a thread, they connect my past, present, and future and invite the viewer to see what these raw, simplistic forms give way for their vision.