My show ‘Urban Blueprints’ is opening on Thursday May 23rd at Axis Contemporary Art, 5-8 PM!
www.axisart.ca/artists/amyDryer.php
In Galleries West, Tom Hardy writes about my work: “Amy Dryer’s hometown of Calgary, where she continues to live, has become the subject of her new work. This engagement is all inclusive, allowing her to paint outdoors and bring her attachment to the city into her painting practice… In a work like Train Through, she energetically pulls together disparate elements to create the urban atmosphere that interests her. There is open, silent, empty space transformed by the bolting passage of a grinding train, faintly outlined, like a ghost. Networks of lines organize the space like a scaffold or skeleton, and patches of colour then flesh it out, the train moving through like a memory or an emotional response. Rather than taking the body as a subject, as in earlier paintings, this new work allows Dryer to focus on more delineations of space, yet still treat the city as a body, a figure with a history.”
Ian Doig also writes about the show in Calgary’s Where Magazine:
www.myvirtualpaper.com/doc/where_calgary_magazine/where_mj13/2013042901/#26
For my part, I want to thank The Doorway and the Glenbow Museum for their influence on my work. I also want to thank Aaron who accompanied me on some of my painting expeditions around Calgary, and documented my painting process.
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