Amy Talluto

Amy Talluto
Hurley, New York, USA

STATEMENT

I work in both painting and collage to create landscape compositions that live in a realm of memory, color and fantasy. I love working with unique and personified natural forms and see them as characters on a kind of stage. In my work, trees and undergrowth can seemingly come to life and become actors within an outdoor theater. I enjoy investigating and repeating these forms through painting and drawing and this process generates huge amounts of material that can further be disassembled and re-combined with other painting remnants as collage. Collages help me move away from realism and penetrate further into the psychological memory of a specific place and time.

BIO

Amy Talluto was born in New Orleans, Louisiana and earned her BFA from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri and her MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York. In 2018, she was awarded a NYFA/NYSCA Artist Fellowship in Painting. Talluto works exclusively with landscape imagery in her work. She seeks out natural subjects that emanate a strong unique feeling and discovers these moments in forests when walking or on the side of the road when driving. It could be an unusual color or shape, a personified form, or a space that takes on an unexpected symmetry. She likes the experience of having images rear up in her peripheral vision and demand making.

ARTIST CONTACT

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