Gallery Artists
Teeth #1 (It was possible to feel the pain of the world)

AMY WILSON

exhibitions
Choplogic
Amy Wilson
The Armory Show 2005
NADA Art Fair 2004
Hello Chelsea
The Armory Show

 
"C.I.A. "Isolation" "It\'s Called Militarism" "Misery/Regret" "Resistance" "Simple Folk 2" "Simple Folk" "So Take Simple Cases, Take the Russian Invasion of Afghanistan" "The Descent into Chaos" "Truth" A Glimpse of What Life in a Free Country Could Be Like A Grievance Must Be Created A call to rise up, from the series, "The Inevitability and Predictability of Current Events" All Americans Have Witnessed This Idealism Assasination Awake from Your Slumber Behold Destination Blue/Red Building the city, from the series, "The Inevitability and Predictability of Current Events" Captive,  from the series, "The Inevitability and Predictability of Current Events" Caught,  from the series, "The Inevitability and Predictability of Current Events" Celebration,  from the series, "The Inevitability and Predictability of Current Events" Collusion (This Researcher Contends) Controlled situations,  from the series, "The Inevitability and Predictability of Current Events" Discovering the Body Empty (from the series, "The Value of Indebtedness") Everywhere Defeat Fact (one of the slogans you hear a lot these days) Fear/Panic Fervor Floating,  from the series, "The Inevitability and Predictability of Current Events" From Whence From the series "The Global Appeal of Liberty" From the series "The Legitimacy of Virtually Every Social Institution" From the series "The Legitimacy of Virtually Every Social Institution" Gluttony Grief (it was palpable and I felt it was poured from one person to the next) History (I thought of the Suffering of a People whose Country was in Ruins) I Would Rather Argue With the Living...(Twombly/Dinosaur Bones) I don\'t think anyone knows what they really look like I\'m Not Sure They Know History Though In waiting,  from the series, "The Inevitability and Predictability of Current Events" Invasion Invasion,  from the series, "The Inevitability and Predictability of Current Events" It Was The First Lie I Ever Remember Being Told (Barnett Newmann/Jeff Koons) It\'s Hard to Predict the Future Memory (They were not human beings. They were obstacles to the exorable triumph of American virtue) Monster (The Last Best Hope for Us All) Museum Visit #1 (How Did He Have This Prescient Moment So Long Ago/Brillo Box) Museum Visit #2 (This is the Image I Wanted to Hold in My Head/Madame X) Museum Visit #3 (I Saw Them Both as Expressions of Grief/Chris Burden/Van Gogh) Museum Visit #4 (Glee/Puppy) Museum Visit: Beauty Contest (Misery is a luxury most of us can\'t afford/Florine Stettheimer) Museum Visit: Camp-Out (I guess I was becoming increasingly unsure/Philip Guston) Museum Visit: Catching Butterflies (Art never pretends to have the answers/Ed Ruscha) Museum Visit: Easter (Things seem to crystallize for me into two camps/Paul McCarthy/Faberge egg) Museum Visit: Forever (This is what all memorials to war should be/Eva Hesse) Museum Visit: Installation (It was more about internalizing everything/Dana Schutz) Museum Visit: Picnic (Hope is a mustard seed/Wayne Theibaud) Museum Visit: Pillow Fight (Self-sufficiency felt good/Ingres) Museum Visit: Sandcastle (Every authentic painting demonstrates a collaboration/Paul Gaugin) Museum Visit: Windowsill (Everyone seemed like a potential victim/Jenny Holzer) National Security/Surveillance Political Theater Postcard series (That was the overwhelming message I received) Postcard series (What exactly do we mean when we speak of freedom?) Postcard series (the image of Valie Export encased in a box) Recruitment,  from the series, "The Inevitability and Predictability of Current Events" Sacrifice,  from the series, "The Inevitability and Predictability of Current Events" Sanctuary Silence Seemed Like a Curse (Duchamp/Johns/Pollock/Brancusi) Sleep Teeth #1 (It was possible to feel the pain of the world) Teeth #2 (The things we did to placate our guilt) Teeth #3 (Sheer willpower) Temporary Terror Becomes an Addiction The Crystal City/Gutting the Fish The Prison I Built (Vanessa Beecroft) The punch and the slap Toppled,  from the series, "The Inevitability and Predictability of Current Events" Transparency (Spring came finally) Untitled (Girls Drowning) Victory/Security Watching the Funeral on TV We Can Leave Today, of Our Own Free Will, Whenever We Want We Know It. We See it Anecdotally.

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INSTALLATION VIEWS

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Solo
2008 Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ
2005 The Global Appeal of Liberty, Bellwether, New York, NY
2005 ARTIST's OFFICIAL WEBSITE
Selected Group
2007 Talk to Me, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
2007 "Still Missing: Beauty Absent Social Life", Westport Arts Center, Westport, CT
2006 "The 'F' Word," Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA
2006 Choplogic, Bellwether Gallery, NY
2006 "Table Top", Josee Bienvenu Gallery, New York, NY
2006 "Only the Paranoid Survive", Hudson Valley Center For Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY
2006 "Still Missing: Beauty Absent Social Life", Visual Arts Museum, New York, NY
2006 Headlines, Pierro Gallery, South Orange, NJ
2006 Among the Trees, Visual Arts Center of NJ, Summit, NJ
2006 Tropicalism, Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ
2005 Greater New York, P.S.1/MOMA, Long Island City, NY
2005 'The Most Splendid Apocalypse," Curated by Jason Murison, P.P.O.W., New York
2004 Roads and Pastimes, Buzzer Thirty, Queens, NY
2004 Hello Chelsea, Bellwether, New York, NY
2004 Talespinning, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
2003 Brave New World, OIA, New York, NY
2003 Transgressing Boundaries, Paint Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2002 Into the Woods, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY
2002 The June Show, Bucheon Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2002 INBOX vol. V, Universal Concepts Unlimited, New York, NY
2002 Annual, Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ
2001 Fast Forward Miami, Bellwether booth, Miami, FL
2001 "Jeanne Lorenz/Sarah Bedford/Amy Wilson," Bellwether, Brooklyn, NY
2000 "Kosmobiologie," curated by Nancy Chaiken, Bellwether, Brooklyn, NY
2000 "The UFO Show," curated by Barry Blinderman and Bill Conger, University of Illinois at Normal/Bloomington. Travels to University of Colorado, Colorado Springs; Arts and Science Center for Southeast Arkansas, Pine Bluff.
2000 Flat File, Bellwether, Brooklyn, NY
2000 The Meat Market Art Fair, Bellwether booth, New York, NY
2000 INBOX vol. II - IV, Sleep Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
1999 Artists Books and Multiples '99, Brooke Alexander Editions, New York, NY
1999 Sightings, Gwenda Jay/Addington Gallery, Chicago, IL
1999 "The Artist in the Marketplace," Bronx Museum of Art, Bronx, NY.
1998 Ground Control, Brooklyn, NY
1997 MFA Thesis Show, Yale University, New Haven, CT
1997 Selections from Rutgers and Yale, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
1996 Curve, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
1996 Enterprise Zones, Spot, New York, NY
Residencies
1999 The Artist in the Marketplace, Bronx Museum of Art, Bronx, NY
Education
1997 MFA in Sculpture, Yale University
1995 BFA in Fine Arts, School of Visual Arts
   
   
   
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