Bio
Education: MFA, 2008, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Post-Bac, 2005, School of the Museum of Fine Arts of Boston, BA, 2002, University of Massachusetts, Boston. Exhibitions: Western Exhibitions, Chicago, IL: The Loo, Chicago, IL; Serious Topics, Inglewood, CA; Roots and Culture, Chicago, IL; Field Projects, New York, NY; Night Light Studios, Chicago,IL; MiM Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Co Prosperity Sphere, Chicago, Il, Whitdel Arts, Detroit, MI; Fundación del Centro Cultural del México Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Mexico; Onishi Civic Center Hall, Fujioka, Japan; Naomi Fine Arts, Chicago, IL; Unspeakable Projects, San Francisco, CA; and S & S project, Chicago. Her work has been published in New American Paintings and Cheap and Plastique Magazine.
Personal Statement
Amanda Joy Calobrisi tells strange and sensuous tales of womanhood. The figures that inhabit her canvases ponder the theatrics of sex—and death—in worlds less dangerous and more revealing than our own. Rendered affectionately rather than objectively, the women fold, bend, lean, and stretch in painted spaces that hover between boudoir and landscape. Individualism and agency mold their realm where self-love and self-admiration are no longer private revolutions.
Disclaimer: All work represents the views of the INDIVIDUAL ARTISTS & AUTHORS who created them, and are not those of the school or museum of the Art Institute.
