À propos d'Amadi.
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Amadi Greenstein est un artiste textile passionné, vivant actuellement dans la région de la baie de San Francisco. Elle crée des pièces originales d'œuvres textiles qui racontent des histoires de ses expériences privées telles que des souvenirs personnels, des identités culturelles, ainsi que des découvertes de récits d'autres identités. Le tissage est la principale pratique qu'elle utilise pour raconter ses histoires. Amadi aime utiliser des matériaux trouvés et des films transparents dans son travail avec des combinaisons de motifs et de textures dans chaque pièce textile.
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.
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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.
Éducation
2019 BFA avec distinction, textiles avec mineure en études visuelles,
California College of the Arts, Oakland, Californie
Des expositions
2019 Exposition solo, Silence isolé, Oliver Art Center Gallery, Oakland, Californie
Exposition de groupe 2020, The Next Generation, Healdsburg Center for. the Arts, Healdsburg, Californie
Exposition virtuelle de groupe 2020, This Is A Movement, Not A Moment, ARTivism Initiative, Massachusetts
Exposition virtuelle de groupe 2020, The Sight, espace de galerie alternatif
Projets collaboratifs
2020 Black Lives Matter Posters, San Francisco, Californie (en collaboration avec MUSA)
Prix
Expérience similaire
Amanda Riggle, Pomona Valley Review, numéro 14, 3 août 2020, p. 25,32,70
Diane Chen, Nos jeunes aujourd'hui, numéro 1, 7 novembre 2020, p. 32,33
Libbie Phan, Humankind Zine, Numéro 2, 28 novembre 2020, p. 52, 53
2019 Assistant de studio textile, California College of the Arts, Oakland, Californie
Stage de développement artistique 2019, Palacio Inc. (Canvia), Silicon Valley, CA
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