ABOUT THE ARTIST
Amy Faris is an artist based in Jersey City, NJ, whose drawing practice revisits sensory memories through the repetition of shapes that echo bodily forms and architectural structures. Her work explores the relationship between internal histories and external environments, engaging themes of violence, awkwardness, joy, pain, and systemic breakdown.
Faris’s work has been included in exhibitions at Gardenship, NJ; AUTOMAT Collective, Philadelphia; The Center for Contemporary Art, NJ; The Visual Arts Center of New Jersey; Bortolami Gallery, NYC; The Ely Contemporary Art Center, New Haven, CT; Site Brooklyn, NY; The 2018 Outsider Art Fair, NYC; and Andrew Edlin Gallery, NYC.
Honors include a Sustainable Arts Foundation Studio Residence Fellowship at Gallery Aferro in Newark, NJ, selection for Creative Capital’s Professional Development Program for New Jersey Artists, and a Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Grant for residency at the Vermont Studio Center.
In addition to her studio practice, Faris has taught as Visiting Artist within the Art and Visual Studies Department at Georgian Court University and guest faculty for the Independent Study Program within Manhattanville College’s MFA creative writing program and has served as visiting critic at Tyler School of Art and Architecture. She is Assistant Professor of studio arts at Brookdale Community College in Lincroft, NJ.
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