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"John Lennon and Yoko Ono," 2008
pen, ink and graphite
©2008Amanda Michele Dellinger
I'm currently working on a new series of Paintings and Drawings. The body of work will be titled: Evelyn's Angels
I work at Lisa Harris Gallery as a Gallery Assistant. I'm an alumni of Cornish College of the Arts with a BFA in Painting, Photography and Sculpture.
Art is an essential element in my life. I am so excited to dive into a community of artists, to work together to enrich our community and strengthen our own lives with experience, relationships and art making.
My lot in life: to teach and to be taught.
Leo Buscaglia wrote, in his book, LOVE,
"Education should be the process of helping everyone to discover his uniqueness, to teach him how to develop that uniqueness, and then to show him how to share it because that's the only reason for having anything. Imagine what this world would be like if all along the way you had people say to you, 'It's good that you're unique; it's good that you're different. Show me your differences so that maybe I can learn from them.' But we still see the processes again and again of trying to make everyone like everybody else." It is my goal as a person and as an artist to be an advocate for change, evolution, and uniqueness.
Amanda Michele Dellinger
PHOTOGRAPHY and MIXED MEDIA
WWW.AMANDADELLINGER.COM
Artist Statement:
The body is ‘particular,’ ‘natural,’ ‘dangerous,’ the ‘Other.’
However, the body is a shell separate from the truth.
The truth is subjectivity and empathy.
I have chosen sculpture and photography to investigate issues of mutation, image and disguise. My intent is to create a portrait, whose subject is evolution. The figures are photographed putting on and taking off another person’s body mold; embracing or sheathing their strange and unfamiliar “body mask.†These photographs and the pile of discarded body masks provoke an emotional response to the subjectivity of the body.
"YOU DON'T TAKE A PHOTOGRAPH, YOU MAKE IT" - Ansel Adams MyGen Profile Generator
