top of page

About Amadi.

Portrait photo of artist, Amadi Greenstein

Amadi Greenstein is a multimedia artist and textile designer based in Palo Alto, California. In 2019, she graduated from California College of the Arts, focused on Textiles and Visual Studies. Currently, in her body of work, Amadi creates a range of textiles based on her weaving practices and explores her questions of cultural and religious identities, in addition to challenging philosophical theories of the Sublime. Her ideology is formed conceptually through the connections of her identity and utilization of transparency film, natural and synthetic fibers, and found objects. Amadi’s experimental practice and nostalgic concepts are conveyed by the form of color, light, pattern, and texture expressed in her textile work. In 2019, Amadi conducted her first solo, Secluded Silence at the Oliver Center Art Gallery in Oakland, California. 

Artist Statement.

Textiles encompass life through the sentimental value of memories, materials, and evolves our ways of living. They sustain us from the moment we are born to the time of death, and our remaining cloth becomes memories of our existence. Amadi’s textile work illustrates and explores her dreams, psychological theories, and personal narratives. She weaves experimentally with conventional and unconventional materials of transparency film, found x-rays, along with natural and synthetic fibers to convey impressions of nostalgia through light, pattern, and texture.

​

Amadi connects her narratives from notions of grief, serenity, comfort, and remembrance in her process of making. Consequently, she unfolds uncertainties about her cultural and religious identities during her upbringing as an adopted child. Perceptions of disarray and isolation arise in areas of Amadi’s textiles. In the methodology of her expressive practice, weaving performs as a health-giving, restorative experience, and uses ideologies of mindfulness. These methods create a strong mental understanding between the mind and body. Along with this, she philosophically challenges the Sublime by intertwining psychological and physiological sensations, from the use of color and texture. Amadi focuses to apply these tactile details in her textiles to abstractly communicate the narratives and emotions that connects to the ideology of her work.

Artist CV.

Education

California College of the Arts, Bachelor of Fine Arts in Textiles, 2019

​

Minor: Visual Studies

Exhibition History

2024 - The Contemporary Jewish Museum, California Jewish Open, San Francisco, CA. USA.

​

2023 - Artly Mix, In Natura, São Paulo, Brazil.

​

2023 - Doncaster Art Fair, Art As A Response To Mental Health, Online Gallery, South Yorkshire, UK.

​

2022 - Oakland Museum of California, Textiles Re-Mixed, Oakland, CA. USA.

 

2021 - Sobre Mesa, Collective Exhibition, Oakland, CA. USA.


2021 - Vacant Museum, State of Repair, Online Gallery.

.
2020 - Alternative Gallery Space, The Sight, Online Gallery.

​

2020 - ARTivism Initiative, This Is A Movement, Not A Moment, Worcester, MA, USA.


2020 - Healdsburg Center for the Arts, The Next Generation, Healdsburg, CA. USA. (group)

 

2019 - Oliver Art Center Gallery, Secluded Silence, Oakland, CA. USA. (solo)

Bibliography

Riggle, Amanda, Pomona Valley Review, Issue 14, August 3, 2020, p. 25, 32, 70

 

Chen, Diane, Our Youth Today, Issue 1, November 7, 2020, p. 32-33


Phan, Libbie, Humankind Zine, Issue 2, November 28, 2020, p. 52, 53

​

Wilson, Rebecca, Saatchi Art, New This Week, May 1, 2023, https://www.saatchiart.com/art-collection/New-This-Week-05-01-2023/153961/728863/view

​

Wilson, Rebecca, Saatchi Art, New This Week, May 8, 2023, https://www.saatchiart.com/art-collection/New-This-Week-05-08-2023/153961/730821/view

Awards

Relevant Work
Experience 

Artists To Watch 2023. ArtConnect. 2023.

​

Honorable Mention for Fashion Design. Sixth Place. Alpaca Owners Association. 2017.

2021 - Studio Assistant, Josh Faught, South San Francisco, CA


2019 - Textiles Studio Assistant, California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA

 

2019 - Art Development Internship, Palacio Inc. (Canvia), Silicon Valley, CA

AmadiG_0368ii.jpg

Get in Touch.

Send me a message and let's connect!

+1 (209) 975-4213

  • Instagram
  • Facebook
  • Threads
  • Etsy
  • LinkedIn

Thanks for submitting!

  • White Instagram Icon
  • Facebook
  • LinkedIn

©2025 Amadi Greenstein I  handmade in California

bottom of page