Amie LeGette
Santa Fe, NM
salted earth/ water-up
Dupont dye on silk & watercolor on paper
10” x 34”, 16” x 40” framed
2022
About
Amie LeGette was born in 1985 and grew up in Northern California. She received her MFA in Painting and Drawing from the University of New Mexico with a Graduate Certificate in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies in 2021, and her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2010. She has exhibited at Form & Concept, and Ellsworth Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Richard Levy, and the Tamarind Institute in Albuquerque, NM, Michael Strogoff Gallery in Marfa, TX, Carl & Sloan in Portland, OR and various other venues nationally and internationally. She was an Artist in Residence at AIRY in Kofu, Japan in 2019, and in 2016 was a finalist with the wilderness arts program Signal Fire. She currently lives and works in Glorieta, New Mexico.
Artist Statement
Organic structures and atmosphere arising through layers of painted translucent silk and paper. These works are physically deconstructed, torn down from large swaths and reassembled. Some layers hang loose while others are stretched or collaged. My intention is for the physical space created in the layering to evoke ephemerality and play with the viewer’s perception of solidity. Folding space with material, these layers meld as they bleed into one another with their translucent passages, mimicking the glazing techniques used with oil and acrylic paint. Reconfigured landscapes: reflected, refracted, images multiplied, layered, and mirrored.
Portfolio
Representation
Form & Concept,
Santa Fe, NM
Richard Levy Galley,
Albuquerque, NM
Art from Amie LeGette in other TAAC exhibitions