AMY FEIGLEY-LEE
Untitled Wallpaper Abstraction #25
2023
found wallpaper collage on wood panel
12x12 Inches
Feigley-Lee is a contemporary artist, educator and mother from Detroit, Michigan. She earned her MFA in 2007 from Cranbrook Academy of Art with an emphasis in Sculpture. Her current studio practice has evolved to focus primarily on creating intricate collage pieces composed of found vintage wallpapers. She is inspired by the colors, patterns, and textures found in wallpaper as well as the formalist sensibilities that come with being an art foundations educator. Her work has been shown both nationally and internationally at venues such as the Freud Museum in London, England, the Daimler Chrysler Headquarters in Berlin Germany, The Muskegon Art Museum, and Andreas Soranon Picks Detroit at the College for Creative Studies. Her work lives in collections at the Mercedes Benz Financial Services Headquarters in Farmington Hills, MI, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI, as well as numerous private collections.
This work is slow. I am here and now, following the blade as it slices through color, pattern, and texture. The process of making is a comfort, a therapy, and a way to connect my past with my future. I delight in visual co- creation- the complexity that exists within the contrasting of hard edges with soft colors, and definitive shapes with convoluted patterns. The result is an unexpected manifestation of an ecstatic process. The dimensional quality of these works is inspired by my background as a sculptor, in terms of the physical textures of the vinyl and flocked paper, layering and weaving of materials, and the creation of the illusion of space in the rendering of geometric forms.
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