amy@amytouchette.com
347.216.1235
UPCOMING EXHIBITION:
Shoot the Arrow will exhibit in the Governors Island Art Fair, taking place every Saturday and Sunday from September 4-26, 2010, on Governors Island in New York City. There will be a lot of amazing art hanging in the unique setting of the island's beautiful old buildings. For more information, click here.
Amy Touchette is a photographer based in New York City who was trained at the International Center of Photography. She began her artistic career as a writer and painter, earning a BA in Literature and Studio Art and an MA in Literature, during which time her aesthetic for portraiture and her penchant for recording and observing began to evolve. (Click here to view her most recent series, 72" x 36" oil-on-canvas paintings that sold out during her solo show.) Currently she works as a teacher’s assistant at the International Center of Photography and consults with individuals privately in developing and articulating their artistic vision.
Her first major body of work, Shoot the Arrow, portraying The World Famous *BOB*, was awarded Honorable Mention by Kathy Ryan, from New York Times Magazine, for the Maine Photographic Workshops Golden Light Awards, and has exhibited in the Pingyao International Photography Festival in Shanxi, China, at the school of the International Center of Photography in New York City, in Bromfield Gallery in Boston, as well as in the Summer of Love exhibition at Noorderlicht Photogallery in the Netherlands (image 1, image 2, image 3) and the 2009 Noorderlicht International Photofestival, curated by Stuart Franklin, president of Magnum, among others. Images from Shoot the Arrow were selected by Mary Ellen Mark, among other jurors, as a finalist in the 2010 Julia Margaret Cameron Award of the Worldwide Photography Gala Awards and by Henry Horenstein for the Camera Club of New York's 2009 annual juried exhibition. Images from Shoot the Arrow have been published in Black & White Magazine, Yen magazine (Australia), and on the cover of Drexel University's literary journal, Painted Bride Quarterly. This large series has been made into a book proposal, currently being shopped to publishers nationally and internationally. To view it, click here.
These and other photographs of Amy's have exhibited and been published nationally and internationally. Her series Deborah, a portrait of homelessness, will be featured in LoudMouth Press's upcoming fine art photography publication, Why Are You Surprised I'm Still Here?, scheduled to be released November 2010. In addition, several of her photographs of Wigstock and New York City-based performing artist Taylor Mac were chosen for RuPaul's Drag Race Art Show, curated by RuPaul in Hollywood, California, to kick off her successful television series RuPaul's Drag Race. She was also commissioned by the Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning to document Jackson Heights and Far Rockaway neighborhoods in Queens, New York City. The resulting photographs exhibited at JCAL in 2009. Amy is currently at work on several personal projects, including a series about sculpture and an ongoing series about nightlife, art, and Brooklyn. She is represented by June Bateman Fine Art.
To receive announcements when new work is posted, please sign the guest book under "info" in the upper right-hand corner.
For print sales, please contact:
June Bateman Fine Art
www.junebateman.com
1133 Broadway, Suite 519
New York, NY 10010
|
