Amanda Means

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Amanda Means (born 1945) is an American artist and photographer. She currently lives and works in

Beacon, NY
.

Early life and education

Means was born in 1945 in

Abstract Expressionist Movement such as Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, and Mark Rothko. Her transition from rural to urban environment was intensified by her family's loss of their farm and the eventual death of her father.[1] She received a Bachelor of Arts from Cornell University in 1969 and a Master of Fine Arts in photography from University at Buffalo (Visual Studies Workshop) in 1978. In 1976 she attended the Aperion Workshops and studied under Ralph Gibson.[citation needed
]

Work

"Water Glass 2, 2004 (Variant)" by Means

Known for her camera-less images, Means often uses a technique similar to the darkroom process which creates photograms, but is uniquely her own. She uses objects such as leaves, light bulbs, and water glasses, instead of photographic negatives, to produce her prints. For both her Leaves and Flowers series (both ongoing, begun in the 1990s) she places the botanical subject on a piece of glass in the head of the photographic enlarger. The enlarger light passes through the organic matter and onto the paper in a way that makes them seem to glow. Traditional photographic techniques rely on reflected light in both camera and darkroom, but her technique avoids light reflection altogether. The effect is that the prints seem to emanate their own light, aligning them with the light-emitting pigments of oil painting.[1] She used similar techniques for her subsequent Water Glass and Light Bulb series.[2] Scott Hall describes the effect of these techniques: "Her transformation of ordinary household objects into sublime Minimal art is not only evident in the bulb series, but also in the black and white prints of water glasses... Sweaty, chipped and scratched vessels monumentally fill the frame, revealing the beauty in the mundane."[3]

Career

Means has made black and white prints for clients Robert Mapplethorpe, Roni Horn, and the Smithsonian Institution. She was awarded a 2017 Guggenheim Fellowship in photography.[4]

She has taught at various universities and art schools including

Parsons The New School for Design, NY (2001); University of Memphis, Memphis, TN (2001); Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY (2002).[5]

Means has been Trustee of the John Coplans Trust in Beacon, New York since 2003.[6]

She has been a contributing editor for Bomb magazine since 1984.[7] Her early nature landscapes,[8] and early black and white photographs of leaves,[9] were published in the magazine's portfolios.

Publications with contributions by Means

Solo exhibitions

Collections

Means' work is held in the following collections:

References

  1. ^ a b c d Means, Amanda (Spring 1997). "Memory of Loss". No. 59. BOMB Magazine.
  2. ^ Gomez, Edward M. "Black and White and Filled With Light". www.riccomaresca.com. Ricco Maresca. Retrieved July 1, 2010.
  3. ^ Hall, Scott (Sep 11, 2008). "In Focus: Amanda Means". The New York Times Magazine.
  4. ^ "Amanda Means". Guggenheim Foundation. Retrieved Apr 7, 2017.
  5. ^ "Polaroid Party - Splash". www.thepolaroidparty.com.
  6. ^ Solway, Carl. "John Coplans Photographs 1984-2000". Carl Solway Gallery. Retrieved May 13, 2011.
  7. ^ "Search - BOMB Magazine".
  8. ^ Ed. Sussler, Betsy (Spring 1983). "New Mexico by Amanda Means". BOMB Magazine (5).
  9. ^ Ed. Sussler, Betsy (Winter 1985). "Untitled #6 by Amanda Means". BOMB Magazine (11).
  10. ISBN 1-931241-09-0
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  11. ISBN 0-8109-0402-0
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  12. ISBN 978-1-59711-193-5
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  13. ISBN 978-1-934137-72-7
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  14. ^ Feeney, Mark (1 June 2008). "Another green world". Boston.com – via The Boston Globe.
  15. ^ "Looking at Leaves Press Release - Harvard Museum of Natural History". Archived from the original on 2010-06-27. Retrieved 2010-01-08.
  16. ^ Remnick, David, ed. (October 8, 2001). "The Short List" (PDF). The New Yorker.
  17. ^ Hall, Scott (11 September 2008). "In Focus - Amanda Means".
  18. ^ McQuaid, Cate. "Black-and-white-world." The Boston Globe, January 21, 2009.
  19. ^ "Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville VA - Community art and outreach". www.secondstreetgallery.org.
  20. ^ exhibit-E.com. "Joseph Bellows Gallery - Amanda Means - Images". www.josephbellows.com. Archived from the original on 2015-04-02. Retrieved 2015-03-03.
  21. ^ "Lightbulb 102 (CP) - LACMA Collections". collections.lacma.org.
  22. ^ "Permanent Collection". SF MoMA.
  23. ^ "Permanent Collection". Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
  24. ^ "Permanent Collection". Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
  25. ^ "Permanent Collection". Whitney Museum of American Art.
  26. ^ "Permanent Collection". Albright-Knox Art Gallery.
  27. ^ Avon Products, Inc. (1999). Know Your Art: Avon Products, Inc. Corporate Art Collection Catalogue. Avon Products, Inc. pp. 69–70.
  28. ISBN 9781597111935
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  29. ^ "Permanent Collection". National Gallery of Canada.
  30. ISBN 0-933607-03-2
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