Artist Statement

American Artist Amy Hutcheson creates paintings that are a response to daily life. Her compositions explore relationships between space, line, color and form. Exploring the  world and the nature of visual representation she exams and reduces essential elements to their most basic forms. Not to simplify the form, light, line and color but rather to give the viewer the opportunity to have their own experience with each piece. Imagination has no boundaries except the ones we place on ourself. Our physical world limits us daily.  The work invites you to allow imagination and the physical world to exist and become limitless together.Each painting explores what is intimate, what is on display, what is cherished and abandoned. Many of her pieces reveal pencil marks to show the artists hand, inviting the viewer to extend their gaze along the picture plane. Hutcheson’s works are fueled by joy, physical movement and synesthesia. Her interest in mark-making originates from her background in illustration. For the artist, the marks that lay just under the surface reveal the most intimate aspects of the self. Using line, color and form as “journaling” tools to create emblems of my personality, emotions and consciousness.Each title of work further unveil hints and give pause to the viewer. Working in a large scale, each piece becomes a transformative environment.