 
Amy Sturgeon approaches art-making like a story teller who understands the constant push and pull between life’s callousness and wit. The fictions she creates within her oil paintings nimbly access perpetually relevant binaries: beauty and ugliness, loneliness and belonging, isolation and transportation. Sturgeon’s characters seem to be continuously searching for something, wandering through colloquial, ethereally painted, orange, green, red and grey landscapes. The paintings maintain a delicate balance between careful detail and folk-inspired generality. Sturgeon offers a pervasive sense of place, by depicting scenes that are familiar enough to occur anywhere. The stories in her paintings invite viewers into an imaginary world that ultimately gives them a new outlook on the themes that shape their actual lives.
Originally from New Zealand, Sturgeon established an intimate relationship with the landscape and wildlife and her international travels have fueled her work’s environmental consciousness. Amy Sturgeon currently lives and works in Queensland Australia and has exhibited in both New Zealand and Japan.
Unbound Perspectives
Reception:
Thursday November 6, 2008 6-8 PM
Exhibition Dates:
10/24/2008 - 11/13/2008
Invitation to
Amy Sturgeon's exhibition
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Cherry Fields
Oil on Canvas
18" x 21"
$1100
Cherry Fields
Oil on Canvas
18" x 21"
$1100
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Nihon No Machi
Oil on Board
15" x 18"
$920
Nihon No Machi
Oil on Board
15" x 18"
$920
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Distant Meeting
Oil on Wood
12" x 20"
$900
Distant Meeting
Oil on Wood
12" x 20"
$900
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Lipstick Lady with a Sunday Hangover
Oil on Canvas
13" x 16"
$820
Lipstick Lady with a Sunday Hangover
Oil on Canvas
13" x 16"
$820
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Island Mall
Oil on Canvas
18" x 15"
$920
Island Mall
Oil on Canvas
18" x 15"
$920
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