Art
#Amy Feigley-Lee
#collage
#found objects
#geometric
#paper
#vintage
From a distance, Amy Feigley-Lee’s colourful compositions are ambiguous and alluring. Are they woven? Protruding? Hole? The nearer one strikes, particulars of meticulously-layered strips of wallpaper emerge on deep, geometric panels. Emphasizing shade, sample, and distinction, the artist performs with perspective and builds visible rhythms from the rigorously organized classic materials.
“The primary wallpaper I used was a remnant from my grandmother’s lounge,” Feigley-Lee tells Colossal. “It was a pastoral toile that actually lent itself to narrative. I later discovered a cache of floral remnants in her attic. I used what I discovered, and shortly after, family and friends began giving me wallpaper that that they had laying round.” Now she sources a lot of her materials from eBay, storage gross sales, or wherever she will be able to discover it.
Feigley-Lee is captivated by the associations we now have with decorative patterns and inside furnishings. “Home patterns are supposed to be ornamental in a method that’s soothing, pacifying, demure, and reflective of cultural norms,” she says. These concepts compelled her to strategy the medium extra conceptually, specializing in installation-based works that problem conventional purposes on broad, flat surfaces.
To create the foundations for every mission, Feigley-Lee commissions Nick Pence of Pence Fine Art Services to assemble bespoke, geometric birch panels that present a clean substrate. As soon as the panels are within the studio, she begins the meditative strategy of hand-cutting the paper into skinny strips. The artist then arranges the items by measurement, saturation, and tonal values. She says, “I’m enthusiastic about confounding the viewer and their notion of house, actually participating the viewer in a method that permits them to decelerate and look deeply.”
Feigley-Lee’s work is on view in Detroit as a part of Louis Buhl & Co.’s Salon Spotlight sequence via July 17. See far more on the artist’s website, and take a look at her Instagram, the place she usually shares insights into her course of.
#Amy Feigley-Lee
#collage
#found objects
#geometric
#paper
#vintage
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