Amy Hutcheson

When I was 4 years old, I was painting.

When I was in my 20s trying to figure out my life, I was painting.

When I was in my 30s studying to be an illustrator, I was still painting.

The reality grasped me slowly. It took the encouragement of Fred Burton, the inspiration of the Abstract Expressionists, and years of self-examination to realize that painting is what I do and a painter is who I am. It is my natural state, my default activity. I could appreciate other forms of art, other career choices, other ways of living - but I was not engaged in any of them in the way I was with painting.
As my painting career began in earnest, my work steadily transformed. I began by combining the simplest elements of drawing - the line, the dot, the duality of black and white - with the complexity and depth of brush strokes to create a new language: my own. Being my own first audience was challenging, as any new experience can be. As I came to terms with my new career, my work continued to evolve.
Having been heavily influenced by Joan Mitchell, Willem de Kooning, Hans Hoffman, and many others from the New York scene in the 1950's, I began considering the idea of deconstruction and deformation in my art, a method that has pervaded all ...

Memphis College of Art, Bachelors in Fine Art 2004

Solo Shows

2015 "of weight and light and space..." Mongerson Gallery, Chicago Il
2013 "Pandora's Box Unhinged", Ground Floor Gallery, Nashville TN
2012 "Shifting and Being" Invitational, Memphis Collage of Art Alumni Gallery, Memphis, TN
2012 "Transformation" Invitational,Nathan and Dorothy Shainberg Gallery, Memphis, TN
2011 "Transformation" Invitational,Playhouse on the Square, Memphis, TN
2010  “Urban Jungle” Invitational,Askew, Nixon and Ferguson, Memphis, TN
    2009  “Playing in Traffic”Invite, Memphis Botanic Gardens, Memphis,TN
    2008  “Pura Vida” , Eclectic Eye, Memphis, TN
    2007  “Intersections”, Eclectic Eye, Memphis, TN
    2006  “Straight from the Hip”Eclectic Eye, Memphis, TN
    2005  “If This Is My Eden”, Eclectic Eye, Memphis, TN
    2002. “Rejoice”, Painted Planet, Memphis, TN

Group Exhibitions
   
2013 Broad Street Art Walk, "The Exhuberant Dance of the Melancholy Souls", Adam Shaw Studios, Memphis, TN.
2008 Broad Street Art Walk, Invitational, The Hungry Artist Gallery, Memphis, TN.Curated by Larry Patton.
    2007    Broad Street Art Walk, Invitational, The Hungry Artist Gallery, Memphis, TN. Curated by Larry Patton.

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