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2000 - 2004
Sarah Lawrence College
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Event: stART Up Art Fair
Dates: 15 Feb 2019 - 17 Feb 2019
stARTup Art Fairs are unique contemporary art experiences, a converging point in boutique hotel settings where art professionals and the art loving public gather to discover today’s most talented independent artists and engage with thought-provoking conversations, installations and performances. At our fairs, we feature over 60 independent artists selected by an ever-evolving jury of art world experts.
Event: Residual Membranes
Dates: 9 Jan 2019 - 9 Feb 2019
Residuals is an exhibition of intermedia sculptural fiberworks by Portland-based artist Amanda Triplett. Made from salvaged textiles, Amanda’s work reimagines the internal landscape of the body and its processes. This exhibition consists of wall-hung sculptural objects, cascading fiber installations, video projection, and an ongoing performance/installation piece entitled Exuviation.
Biography
Making art in the space where fine art and craftwork intersect, I manipulate, layer and embroider salvaged fibers into abstractions of biology. These sculptural fiberworks reimagine the internal landscape of the body. Working with materials gleaned from thrift stores, garbage piles and free boxes, I select well-worn items of intimacy like garments, towels, and linens. Having caressed and contained the bodies of their former owners, these textile objects are replete with bodily knowledge and shaped and marked by their wearing. For me, these secret dramas contained within the rescued fibers render the materials rich and unique.
As I dismantle these rescued fibers and sew them together in new ways, I engage in a craftwork meditation on all of the expectations and assumptions that come with inhabiting my own body and identity.
The form language of my sculptural works is biomorphic and visceral. Oozing, soft, supple, fibrous, and organic, these sculptures explore the struggles of having a body, being a body, and wearing a body. My work asks how we reconcile our fleshy masses with the culturally-designated and expected body narratives of our identities.
