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ARTIST STATEMENT
As a fiber/mixed media artist, I focus on conceptual art that transcends traditional artistic boundaries, focusing on shared experience, identity, and feminism to create emotional narratives. My work serves as a celebration of strength and resilience. The piece invites the viewer to question preconceived notions about femininity and reflect on the complex collective experience that binds women together.
I utilize repurposed objects historically coded as feminine to expose how women’s bodies, labor and identities are controlled and consumed. My art challenges the viewer to question the patriarchal system that demands submission while denying women full humanity. The repurposed precious objects stripped of their initial significance, hold tension between endurance and resistance, revealing how deeply this system shapes intimacy, relationships and self perception. In deconstructing these items they are transformed into symbols of empowerment, resistance, liberation and courage.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Amy Menousek is an Arizona-based conceptual mixed media artist with a BFA in Metals and Jewelry. She began her exploration of fiber art in 2010. Her latest body of work focuses on women’s shared experience within a patriarchal society. She finds it both cathartic and healing to draw from her personal experience in much of her work. Through this, she serves to strengthen the female collective, motivate others to share their voice, and provide a space where women feel seen and understood. Though much of her work addresses emotionally heavy themes, she approaches them with a sense of lighthearted humor that captures even the random passerby’s attention. She enjoys creating art that is deeply thought provoking and highlights women’s experience, strength and resilience.
© Amy Menousek