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(4.01 - 141 votes)About Amy:
Responding to everyday stresses, anxieties and wonder, Amy Freeman creates narrative imagery that embraces the use of self portraiture. By nature, she is an actress but is too apprehensive to perform on stage. Instead, the studio becomes her theater where she actively draws and paints from direct observation. Aided by wigs and the occasional costume, Freeman alters her appearance while laboring to best portray a desired emotion and endure any necessary discomforts to fully express it. Motivated by daydreams and guided by passions that play a daily tug of war, she visually integrates reality with a spectacle of childhood fantasy, creating a transition between the simplicity of long ago and the complexity of what exists now.
Next Artist: Aerick Eisenstein
Previous Artist: Dayna Thacker
Amy Freeman @ Gallery Stokes. On view from 2/27-3/21/2009. http://www.vimeo.com/3470219. Also available on YouTube....
CZ — that story is called The Yellow Wallpaper, and I know what you mean about the feeling of the story and this painting.
Comment by caroline — June 22, 2009
great use of color and technique, but i feel lost in the wrought compostition. It lacks simplicity and loses my attention.
i believe she would have greater success focusing on single portraits.
the mood however, is very well portrayed.
Comment by emily — June 22, 2009
Nice stages of the female hormonal battle. I wonder which stage the artist was in when she painted them?
Comment by Toulouse — June 22, 2009
the tech is very good and expressive. Like the palette. But I’m hearing that kid in Merlott’s bar saying “I feel like I’m stuck in some hillbilly’s oxycontin nightmare.
Comment by m4deline — June 22, 2009
Looks like scenes form Eastenders. Really dont like this stuff. Domestics do not inspire me.
Comment by steven633 — June 22, 2009
She has a fantastic use of color! As also does her layout of the subects. But the story/title, in pieces like these, is needed to understand what one is observing.
The colors are….perfect. neutrals thrown in with trianges of contrasting colors to lift the frontal items up…Technique is flawless….it’s all good.
Perhaps if this “Artist of the Day” item could display the name of the paintings, it would help. For they seem to definitly have a story going on.
Comment by Lisa — June 22, 2009
Both amazing, could def. tell what each of you/the women are thinking about and going through. Though there is probably some deeper personl thought to each charicter I think I can, on some level, identify with each. Thanx for that.
Comment by Leigh — June 22, 2009
great paintings! Extremely expressive application of paint that compliments the expressive faces on the figures.
Comment by Phil Dahl — June 22, 2009
Amy, I am recalling a short story I read in women studies where the “hysterical”wife begins to see things then space in the wall paper… Great artist site and I cant wait to see what turns out in your new work.
Comment by cz — June 22, 2009
Wonderful skill, great color and composition. But please….please….could you please paint something other than yourself?
Comment by Faye — June 22, 2009