Sobre Amadi.
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Amadi Greenstein es un artista textil apasionado, que actualmente vive en el Área de la Bahía de San Francisco. Crea piezas originales de trabajos textiles que narran historias de sus experiencias privadas como recuerdos personales, identidades culturales, junto con descubrimientos de narrativas de otras identidades. Tejer es la práctica principal que usa para contar sus historias. Amadi disfruta usando materiales encontrados y películas transparentes en su trabajo con combinaciones de patrón y textura en cada pieza textil.
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.
Educación
2019 BFA con Distinción, Textiles con Mención en Estudios Visuales,
Colegio de Artes de California, Oakland, California
Exposiciones
Exposición individual 2019, Secluded Silence, Oliver Art Center Gallery, Oakland, California
2020 Exposición Colectiva, La Próxima Generación, Centro Healdsburg para. las artes, Healdsburg, California
Exposición virtual grupal 2020, Esto es un movimiento, no un momento, Iniciativa ARTivismo, Massachusetts
Exposición virtual colectiva 2020, The Sight, Espacio de galería alternativo
Proyectos colaborativos
2020 Black Lives Matter Posters, San Francisco, CA (en colaboración con MUSA)
Premios
Experiencia relacionada
Amanda Riggle, Pomona Valley Review, número 14, 3 de agosto de 2020, p. 25,32,70
Diane Chen, Our Youth Today, número 1, 7 de noviembre de 2020, p. 32,33
Libbie Phan, Humankind Zine, número 2, 28 de noviembre de 2020, p. 52, 53
2019 Asistente de estudio de textiles, California College of the Arts, Oakland, California
Pasantía de Desarrollo de Arte 2019, Palacio Inc. (Canvia), Silicon Valley, CA
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