Artist Statement
“I look to create a tactile counter atmosphere within my acrylic and mixed media paintings that visually expresses what is hidden in our world of reality paired with the essence of myth. An inner vision created from mystery and wonder where the dualities of fragility with strength, ancient with contemporary and the outer world with the inner world collide in search of balance and meaning.
It’s important to me that even the materials are strongly symbolic creating imagery that is meant to take the viewer deeper within their own realm of realization. The paintings house several reoccurring motifs including Suspended worlds containing intricate line work atop collaged vintage book page remnants or silk, fluid backdrops, gritty/cracked textures, beds of feathers, eggshells and golden labyrinths.”
Biography
Amber Maida’s paintings are internationally collected and represented by galleries in CT, NY, VT, CA, and in the UK. Vermont Today called Maida’s paintings as “Kandinskyesque abstractions,” and her work has also been featured in journals including Art World News Magazine (September 2009) and Ink Magazine (January 2008).
At The White Space Gallery (New Haven, CT), where she was represented from 2007-2009, her paintings hung alongside Salvador Dali’s. A suite of paintings by the artist were recently selected by Richard’s of Greenwich for the 2009 Art to the Avenue public art exhibition (Greenwich, CT). Her work has also been included in juried exhibitions at museums and galleries, including AIRS (New Haven, CT); The Housatonic Museum of Art (Bridgeport, CT), The Silvermine Guild of Art (New Canaan, CT) and Lazy Pear Gallery (Montpelier, VT).
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