Amy Pelletier: Malaspina Printmakers

Amy Pelletier (05) examines the psychology of collectors and the compulsion of collecting through her recent body of digital prints in which images of objects from collections are layered to create strange new forms. Amy's artistic practice is based in the curation and arrangement of collected objects resulting in forms that provide insight into theoretical circumstances and anthropomorphized scenes. Through Collector she questions notions of beauty and value, the amassing of images and the way in which the individual object gains meaning through the set to which it belongs.

To make Collector Amy will photograph each individual item from purchased collections against a white background. She will then digitally assemble each collection layering them on top of one another, creating new forms from the group. Each large photographic print will then represent one collection purchased from one collector that becomes available, as a work of art, to be collected once again and reinserted into another collection.

February 10 - March 22, 2009
Opening Reception February 20, from 7-9pm
www.amypelletier.com
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