AMANDA VALDEZ: Born before 1982, in Seattle, Washington, but currently lives and works in New York City. She makes colorful, multimedia works, populated by shapes that oscillate between representation and abstraction.
For the last five years she has developed a body of paintings that are made with fabric, embroidery, canvas, and paint. Her shapes are sewn into the surface of the painting. She has recently been featured on the Huffington Post, New American Paintings, the Stranger, and Hyperallergic. Her work can be seen at the Denny Gallery, New York, NY.
Amanda has stated about her work: "Fabric, embroidery, paint, canvas, and a frame: these ingredients in my work allow for two stories of the body to be played out in my practice. There are the abstracted and representational forms in my paintings referencing the body; its parts, processes, and experiences, as well as the physical process of my body making them."