Andrea Amelung
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Germany (Deutschland)
www.artvonamelung.com
category: Painting
technique: Mixing technique
Style: Abstract
Statement:
German-born artist Andrea Amelung is deeply devoted to the experimentation of process. She has developed a special method that incorporates a variety of mediums to produce intense colors that shimmer and radiate from the canvas. Amelung is a traveler at heart, with journeys and extended stays in many locales around the world. These experiences have served her well as an artist, collecting ideas, materials, and skills along the way. Since 1995, she has studied and painted in various artist studios, master classes, and workshops, efforts that have broadened her understanding of experimental processes and the practice of painting as a whole.
The extraordinary results of Amelung�s diligent efforts are easy to discern. Her work, completed in a contemporary abstract expressionist style, is stunning to behold. Her achievements with texture produce a weathered, time-tested appearance to the appli�cation of paint. Other works are approached with gradations of a particular hue, to allow for the richest expression of the dominant color. Geometric forms and gestural lines are scrawled into or on top of the paint, evoking both modern and ancient art forms. Amelung will often employ raw pigments combined with unusual painting media such as modeling plastic, sand, ash, and marble dust. Her superb layering effects are also achieved by applying washes of beeswax and then scraping sections to reveal the layers below, providing a potent sense of texture and depth. Beyond testing the limits of the painting process, art for Amelung is a means to express emotions that are not easy to verbalize or represent. Abstract art is a visceral, instantly accessible plane of discourse with her audience. �Art is a means for me to cap�ture different moods and situations from my life,� she states. �My paintings hope to inspire, make curious, deliver surprises and ra�diate optimism, positive associations and joy of life.� Amelung has exhibited and sold to private collectors around Europe and she has recently acquired representation in New York. She lives and works in Berlin.
ARTisSpectrum Magazine New York 2007, Vol. 17, page 4
Bio / Resumee / Statement:
Art training/art academies:
ArtCenter South Florida, Miami, Freie Universität Berlin, Akademie für Malerei Berlin, Freie Akademie für Kunst Berlin and self-taught.
Main subjects: abstract compositions.
Usual techniques: acrylic, raw pigments, mixed media on canvas.
Techniques:
Acrylic- and Pigmentpaintings
Into my large-sized acrylic paintings I use different materials, like paper, fibers, gypsum or plastic-modelling masses, etc. Everything is applied on in several layers, is washed off partially again and then applied again. On this relief-like structure form will form on which the acrylic colours are then applied. Coloured, luminous paintings with various layers and overlapping structures emerge.
Since 2000 I work with pigments that lend a radiant coloured powdered sugar effect to the paintings. I partly process the pigments with modelling mass, sand, ash or marble dust and apply them in relief-like layers to give the paintings materiality. I use the pure pigment as a colour body, powdery and granular.
Encaustik
It is a very varied form of creation and goes back to a 3000 year-old tradition. In my works bleached beeswax acts as a carrier material of the pigments and at the same time as a protection. The valuable gloss has a long durability. By scraping, scratching, lining, dotting, etc. the Encaustik offers a singular variety to the creation of the painted surface. In my works a constant interplay results from applying numerous layers of wax and partially scraping it off in the constant process of preserving and destroying the work. With the Enkaustik I generate animate thermo-sculptural processes which produce tangible coloured pictures with relief-like structures.
Sand paintings
On my journeys I found that sand from different places in the whole world is different in colour and granulation. I combine the different sand types with iron, copper, wood, etc. to create a harmonious whole. The granulation and colour of the sand give an individual atmosphere to each painting.
Press
» Ico Gallery New York, Curator Eugene Hwang
"02/10/2008 Amelung's meditative paintings are chromatic experiments,
which ambitiously rely heavily on color and simple forms to relate the artist's themes. One gets the sense that all is gingerly placed, though there is a good amount of extemporaneity. Once the paint is brushed on, there is a confidence that it was meant to be, though it might not have come out as planned. There is no such thing as a rehearsal. There is no need for them because there are no mistakes, and so these pieces, while containing a melancholic element, embrace optimism. Any simplicity in good art is only apparent. Amelung takes on the challenge of maximizing expression while keeping color and forms simple. Her solution is texture and allowing her quadrilaterals to have "imperfections." There were never any rulers involved. The result is something that appears simultaneously primitive and modern, ..."
Eugene Hwang
Books
-"International Contemporary Masters 2008", Omma Center of Contemporary Art, CA, USA
– "2008 International Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Art", Casa Editrice Alba.
– "2009 International Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Art", Casa Editrice Alba.
Articles
-ARTisSpectrum Magazine New York, Vol. 17, page 4
-Artfairs International: www.artfairsinternational.com
-New York Arts Magazine: www.nyartsmagazin.com
Membership:
-Museum of Modern Art (MoMa), New York
-Berufsverband Bildender Künstler (BBK)
-Syrlin Kunstverein
Activities:
Exibitions:
2012
Temporary Gallery Berlin: 1.1.- 31.12.12
Villa Henckel, Potsdam: 7.1.- 30.3.12
Hotel AlexanderPlaza, Berlin-Mitte: 1.1.- 30.3.12
ArtExpo New York: 22.- 25.3.12
Red Dot Art Fair New York: 3.- 6.5.12
Red Dot Art Fair Miami: 5. - 9.12.12
2011
January 5 - December 31: Temporary Gallery Berlin, Berlin-Charlottenburg
January 1 - March 17: Hotel Alexander Plaza, Berlin - Mitte
February 2 - 28: Galerie Zero, Barcelona, Spain
March-April: Hotel Hackescher Markt, Berlin
March-June: European Art on Tour, Contemporary Art from Europe and the World, Palazzo Arese Borromeo, Cesano Maderno, Milano, Italy
June-July: Dallas Fort Worth, USA
August: 14th Beijing International Art Exposition, China
September: Chicago, Art District, USA
October: Tallahassee, Brogan Museum of Arts and Science, USA
November: Philadelphia, USA
December: Exhibitalia/Art Basel Miami, USA
2010
January 2 - 30: Broadway Gallery, 473 Broadway, New York, NY 10013
February/March: works will also be shown at different New York locations in March concurrent with NYC Art Fair’s week including The Armory Show.
February 20 - April 1: Southern Nevada Museum of Fine Art, Las Vegas
March: NY Arts Beijing Gallery, Beijing, China
March 20 - April 20: Foyer d'Art, Hamburg-Volksdorf, Groten Hoff 12
April 22 - 25: Tease Art, Cologne
Mai 8 - 21: Galleria De’ Marchi Bologna, Italy
October 7 - 10: Berliner Liste, Berlin
Nov/Dez: Hotel Alexanderplaza, Berlin - Mitte
Dezember 19: Temporary Gallery Berlin, Berlin-Charlottenburg
2009
Hotel InterContinental Berlin, 9.12.08 - 15.01.09
Berliner Sparkasse, Adenauerplatz, Berlin
Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, Ludwigkirchplatz 3-4, Berlin, 03.02. - 01.05.09
Art Innsbruck 19. - 22.02.09
Atelier Chris Ehlers, Goethestrasse 83, Berlin 1. - 31.03.
"works on paper" at NY Arts Venice Pavillon, Venedig Biennale, Italy 07.06.-22.11.09
TiasNimbas Business School, Tilburg, NL August bis Dezember 09
Luxemburg, Theatre des Capucins 21.11. - 04.12.09
Atelier Sadik Uslu, Berlin-Charlottenburg 1.11.-31.12.09
Bundesverband Managed Care, Berlin
2008
Icosahedron Gallery, New York, USA, 05. � 29.02.08
Art Innsbruck, Österreich, 08. - 11.02.08
Signal-Iduna Business Tower, Mannheim, 14.03. � 01.09.08
Kassenärztliche Vereinigung Bayern (KVB), München, 15.04. � 06.06.08
Galleria d�Arte Spazio 6, Verona, Italien, 16. � 29.08.08
Galerie Bertrand Kass, Innsbruck, Österreich, 10. � 20.10.08
Icosahedron Gallery, New York, USA, 02. - 31.10.08
Kunst auf dem Kudamm, Berlin, 04. - 12. 11. 08
Hotel InterContinental Berlin, Budapesterstrasse 2, 8.12.08 - 19.01.09
Bundesverband Managed Care: wechselnde Ausstellungsreihen
2007
Agora Gallery, Chelsea, New York (USA)
Internationale Kunstmesse Salzburg
Biennale Internazionale dell�Arte Contemporanea, Firenze.
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