Overview

Amanda Ramsay’s concrete and resin sculptures activate geometric mass and void to engage dialogs between symmetry and asymmetry or repetition and randomness among other characteristics of perception. The understated pallet of these materials allow the simple play of light falling across unadorned geometric forms to be experienced in contrast to shadowed recesses. Constructing abstract simplicity without ignoring structure, the work strives to evoke a sense of place and order, as if derived from an imprint of shapes and patterns that are implanted in the depths of our memory.

 

"Creating abstract simplicity without forsaking structure, my work strives to evoke a sense of place and order, as if derived from an imprint of shapes and patterns that are implanted in the depths of our memory. Our daily lives are filled with infinite impressions from our exterior world, forms which fit into a narrative we build about where we are and what its means. My work is informed by these impressions, but is also an exploration of creating a sense of balance in the moment of observation. I would hope it honors the gift of conscious attention we understandably take for granted. In the studio, while crafting these architectonic mandalas I speculate on that unremitting project of the self, which so sincerely goes about deciphering the present moment.

 

It is a question that compels me to detach from the natural but often compulsive narrativizing of the world I experience outside the studio in the cultural landscape. Instead, I intensely engage in configuring rectilinear masses and voids, exploring tensions between symmetry and asymmetry, brilliant light and recessed shadow, repetition and randomness, ascension and descent as the eye, and my inner eye, travel the surfaces around the forms." - Amanda Ramsay

Works
Biography

 

Solo Exhibitions

2019 Forum, The Art Base Basalt, CO

 

Group Exhibitions

2019 Light Juried Exhibition, 440 Gallery, New York , NY

2019 Return to Simplicity∫Bauhaus Inspired Art and Design, Colorado Mountain College, Aspen, CO

2018 Pink Highlights Juried Show, Sky Gallery, Aspen, CO

2018 Ether, The Bird’s Nest Gallery, Aspen, CO

2017 Art Affai,r The Art Base, Basalt, CO

2017 Contemporary Visionaries, Colorado Mountain College, Aspen, CO

2016 En Hiver, Red Brick Center for the Arts, Aspen, CO

 

Informal Exhibitions

FM Architects, Snowmass Village, CO

2017 CCY Architects, Basalt, CO  2017

 

Awards & Grants

2019 Presidential Scholarship, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass Village, CO

2018 Allegheny Meadows Fellowship Grant

2017 ArtSlant Prize Showcase Winner

2017 Presidential Scholarship, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass Village, CO

2016 ArtSlant Prize Showcase Winner

 

Press

2016 Featured Artist, Aspen Public Radio, Feb 3

Bibliography

Creating abstract simplicity without forsaking structure, my work strives to evoke a sense of place and order, as if derived from an imprint of shapes and patterns that are implanted in the depths of our memory. Our daily lives are filled with infinite impressions from our exterior world, forms which fit into a narrative we build about where we are and what its means. My work is informed by these impressions, but is also an exploration of creating a sense of balance in the moment of observation. I would hope it honors the gift of conscious attention we understandably take for granted. In the studio, while crafting these architectonic mandalas I speculate on that unremitting project of the self, which so sincerely goes about deciphering the present moment.

It is a question that compels me to detach from the natural but often compulsive narrativising of the world I experience outside the studio in the cultural landscape. Instead, I intensely engage in configuring rectilinear masses and voids, exploring tensions between symmetry and asymmetry, brilliant light and recessed shadow, repetition and randomness, ascension and descent as the eye, and my inner eye, travel the surfaces around the forms