Artwork
#Amy Feigley-Lee
#collage
#discovered objects
#geometric
#paper
#classic
“Untitled Wallpaper Abstraction #36” (2024), discovered wallpaper on birch panel, 36 x 48 x 8 inches. Picture by Tim Johnson. All photos © Amy Feigley-Lee, shared with permission
From a distance, Amy Feigley-Lee’s colourful compositions are ambiguous and alluring. Are they woven? Protruding? Hole? The nearer one strikes, particulars of meticulously-layered strips of wallpaper emerge on deep, geometric panels. Emphasizing coloration, sample, and distinction, the artist performs with perspective and builds visible rhythms from the rigorously organized classic materials.
“The primary wallpaper I used was a remnant from my grandmother’s lounge,” Feigley-Lee tells Colossal. “It was a pastoral toile that actually lent itself to narrative. I later discovered a cache of floral remnants in her attic. I used what I discovered, and shortly after, family and friends began giving me wallpaper that that they had laying round.” Now she sources a lot of her materials from eBay, storage gross sales, or wherever she will be able to discover it.
Feigley-Lee is captivated by the associations we have now with decorative patterns and inside furnishings. “Home patterns are supposed to be ornamental in a method that’s soothing, pacifying, demure, and reflective of cultural norms,” she says. These concepts compelled her to method the medium extra conceptually, specializing in installation-based works that problem conventional purposes on broad, flat surfaces.
To create the foundations for every venture, Feigley-Lee commissions Nick Pence of Pence Superb Artwork Companies to assemble bespoke, geometric birch panels that present a easy substrate. As soon as the panels are within the studio, she begins the meditative strategy of hand-cutting the paper into skinny strips. The artist then arranges the items by measurement, saturation, and tonal values. She says, “I’m enthusiastic about confounding the viewer and their notion of area, actually partaking the viewer in a method that permits them to decelerate and look deeply.”
Feigley-Lee’s work is on view in Detroit as a part of Louis Buhl & Co.’s Salon Spotlight collection by July 17. See far more on the artist’s web site, and take a look at her Instagram, the place she usually shares insights into her course of.
“Untitled Wallpaper Abstraction #37” (2024), discovered wallpaper on birch panel, 36 x 32 x 6 inches. Picture by Tim Johnson
Left: “Untitled Wallpaper Abstraction #30” (2023), discovered wallpaper on birch panel, 6 x 6 x 1 inches. Proper: “Untitled Wallpaper Abstraction #24” (2023), discovered wallpaper on birch panel, 35 x 45 x 6 inches. Pictures by PD Rearick
Element of a piece in progress
“Untitled Wallpaper Abstraction #32” (2023), discovered wallpaper on birch panel, 42 x 32 x 7 inches. Picture by PD Rearick
Studio view with “Untitled Wallpaper Abstraction #24” in progress
“Untitled Wallpaper Abstraction #34” (2023), discovered wallpaper on birch panel, 53.25 x 20 x 3.5 inches. Picture by PD Rearick
“Untitled Wallpaper Abstractions #22, #29, #30, and #31” in progress
#Amy Feigley-Lee
#collage
#discovered objects
#geometric
#paper
#classic
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