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Amber Maida
amber@ambermaida.com
www.ambermaida.com
Amber Maida currently lives and works in Irvine, CA and travels frequently to her place in Naugatek, CT.
Her paintings are internationally collected and represented by galleries throughout the US, Canada, and in the UK. Amber’s work has also been featured in several journals including Artscope Magazine (July/August 2010), Art World News Magazine (September 2009), and Ink Magazine (January 2008). Vermont Today referred to Maida’s paintings as “Kandinskyesque abstractions.”
She was represented by The White Space Gallery in New Haven, CT from 2007-2009, where examples of her work hung alongside Salvador Dali’s. A suite of paintings by the artist were recently selected by Richard’s of Greenwich for the 2009 Art to the Avenue public art exhibition (Greenwich, CT). Her work has also been included in juried exhibitions at museums and galleries, including Station Gallery (NYC), AIRS (New Haven, CT); The Housatonic Museum of Art (Bridgeport, CT) and The Silvermine Guild of Art (New Canaan, CT).
Most recently Amber Maida's solo exhibition titled "Labyrinth" was featured at The Gallery at Black Rock (Now known as Gallery 305K) in Bridgeport, CT June 2010.
This series of work, “A Labyrinth Line Existence” was inspired by a quote from David Bowie’s interview on the 1993 “Black Tie White Noise” film. Amber listened to his music and words repeatedly during the creation of these paintings and they were a direct inspiration to the resulting images. Bowie has been a strong influence on her work, which has developed into a visual vocabulary on the canvas.
“In my mixed media paintings, I create tactile counter-environments that express myth and uncover the mystery hidden within reality. I juxtapose dualities - fragility/strength, ancient/contemporary, external/internal - to exploit a tension where balance and meaning collide to form a coherent inner vision.
My materials are carefully chosen and strongly symbolic. My work contains recurring motifs and materials including golden labyrinths, fluid backdrops, crackled textures, vintage books, silks, feathers, eggshells, and line drawings of suspended worlds. I hope that my images take viewers deeper within their own realm of realization.” “I’m interested in reconstructing symbols. It’s about connecting with an older knowledge and trying to discover continuities in why we search for Heaven.” Anselm Kiefer
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* None of the artworks may be copied or reproduced without the written permission of the Artist