Amy van Helden

Amy van Helden

Buenos Aires, Outside U.S., Argentina

About Amy van Helden

I am an American artist and have been a resident of Argentina for the past 20 years. I obtained a BFA degree with a concentration in painting and printmaking from the University of Michigan in 1979. I had my first individual art show in 1991 at the Luigi Marrozzini Gallery in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico, where I lived for 11 years before moving to Argentina in 1997. I have had numerous individual art shows in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and have participated in many collective exhibitions and art fairs. My artwork is found in private collections in the US, Puerto Rico, Argentina, Mexico, Guatemala, Panama, Chile and Uruguay. I define my work as geometric abstraction and I have been painting in this vein since 1990. In the year 2012 I was awarded a Pollock-Krasner foundation grant for the year 2013. In 2012 I received the Arte Espacio prize in Buenos Aires, Argentina. I work as a K-12 Visual Arts teacher at the BAICA school (Buenos Aires International Christian Academy). My visual language is within the realm of geometric abstraction. I find this to be the perfect milieu in which I can work with simple forms, without distractions, and in which I can experiment with the pictorial elements that inspire me the most: color, texture, pattern and movement. Many of these colors and forms have been inspired by indigenous textiles, especially the ones from Guatemala, a place I have visited often. In my paintings and watercolors I strive to create a kind of visual and musical poetry of color and movement. I like to call this poetry of color "coloreography" because it combines, precisely, color and choreography.

Education:

B.F.A. University of Michigan

Events:

Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant 2013
Arte Espacio First Prize 2012

Exhibitions:

Solo Exhibitions:
2013 Arte Espacio Art Fair 2013, San Isidro, Argentina
2012 Arte Espacio Art Fair 2012, San Isidro, Argentina
2011 Arte Espacio Art Fair 2011, San Isidro, Argentina
2003 Recent Paintings: Arguibel Art Space, Las Cañitas, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2000 Color: Secuencias y Elocuencias, van Riel Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina
1991 Works on Paper, Luigi Marrozzini Gallery, San Juan, Puerto Rico

Group exhibitions:
2014 Cuatro x Dos Group Exhibition, Yacht Club, Puerto Madero, Buesnos Aires, Argentina
2014 Cuatro x Dos Group Exhibition, Rosario Chamber of Commerce, Rosario, Santa Fe province, Argentina
2014 Cuatro x Dos Group Exhibition, Galas del Rio Art Festival, La Paz, Entre Rios province, Argentina
2014 Arte Espacio Art Fair 2014, San Isidro, Argentina
2014 Cuatro x Dos Group Exhibition, Mulazzi Museum, Tres Arroyos, Buenos Aires province, Argentina
2013 Cuatro x Dos Group Exhibition, Four Artists of Dutch Descent, Milo Lockett Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2011 Group Exhibition, Boutique del Libro, San Isidro, Argentina
2010 Small Format 2010, ACAARTE33, San Isidro, Argentina
2002 Buenos Aires Art Consortium at Paseo Alcorta, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2001 Contemporary Art at the Bencich Palace, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2001 Trazos de Aquí y de Más Allá, Ayres de Pilar, Pilar, Argentina
2001 Temporada 2001, van Riel Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2000 Temporada 2000, van Riel Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina
1993 Second National Juried Art Show, Museum of Contemporary Art, Puerto Rico
1992 Small Format '93, Luigi Marrozzini Gallery, San Juan, Puerto Rico
1991 Small Format '92, Luigi Marrozzini Gallery, San Juan, Puerto Rico
1991 Rechazados y Objetores, Luigi Marrozzini Gallery , San Juan, Puerto Rico
1991 Artists of the New Era, Tourism Company, San Juan, Puerto Rico