Amy Finkelstein received her MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in 2005 where she was a Deans Discretionary Award recipient. She received her BA, with honors, from Appalachian State University. Her work has been juried and shown extensively throughout the east coast in Washington DC, New York, Boston, Philadelphia, New Jersey, Vermont and the Carolinas. She has shown internationally as well in Italy and is part of the permanent collection of the Contemporary Art Museum of Casoria, Napoli. She was recently named a semi-finalist for the 2013 Janet and Walter Sondheim Prize. She currently lives and works in Washington, DC.
[photograph] 21 Oct 2012
"My work process involves photographing fields of matter and discovering what these fields, within the structure of this media, can potentially yield. Recently, I have been working with India ink applied to translucent drafting film, which is hung and backlit for photographing. I shoot with an 8x10 camera and print in a traditional color darkroom. The subject matter is not a construct of previously sketched and carefully rendered images. It is rather a documentation of collaborative happenstance with material and mark, and with the catalytic ability for photography to shift this literal matter into potential notions of reference." Read more in the description below.
6.5×9.5 in. Amy FINKELSTEIN [photograph] 10 Jan 2013
"My work process involves photographing fields of matter and discovering what these fields, within the structure of this media, can potentially yield. Recently, I have been working with India ink applied to translucent drafting film, which is hung and backlit for photographing. I shoot with an 8x10 camera and print in a traditional color darkroom. The subject matter is not a construct of previously sketched and carefully rendered images. It is rather a documentation of collaborative happenstance with material and mark, and with the catalytic ability for photography to shift this literal matter into potential notions of reference." Read more in the description below.
7.5×9.5 in. Amy FINKELSTEIN [photograph] 16 Jan 2013
"My work process involves photographing fields of matter and discovering what these fields, within the structure of this media, can potentially yield. Recently, I have been working with India ink applied to translucent drafting film, which is hung and backlit for photographing. I shoot with an 8x10 camera and print in a traditional color darkroom. The subject matter is not a construct of previously sketched and carefully rendered images. It is rather a documentation of collaborative happenstance with material and mark, and with the catalytic ability for photography to shift this literal matter into potential notions of reference." Read more in the description below.
