DVAA Member since 2023
AMY BLOCK
website: amyblockstudioarts.com
About:
Amy graduated with a BFA in Selected Studies through Syracuse University’s School for Visual and Performing Arts in 1978, studying studio arts, ceramics, and special education. She also attended Widener University’s Master program in Special Education several years later. Amy currently lives in Medford, NJ.
Amy utilized her studio arts and clay background to design and implement creative curriculum as a teacher of special needs students. She continued this work as a supervisor for a day program for adults with cognitive and physical disabilities for several years and currently continues to teach pottery classes at several Adult Day Programs for special needs as well as holding clay workshops for adults.
Amy started selling and exhibiting her clay work after graduating from Syracuse University. She exhibited and sold retail and wholesale throughout the country for many years and continues to sell her clay pieces at area shows and galleries. Amy recently returned to her love of watercolor collage painting and is exploring abstract acrylic painting on canvas. Amy exhibited her watercolors at the Long Beach Island Plein Air Plus 2022 National Juried Competition Show at the Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts. Her acrylic abstract paintings have been exhibited and sold at the National Juried Ellarslie 40 National Juried Show at the Trenton Museum in June 2023. Her latest submission of her abstract paintings was also accepted to the Trenton Museum National Juried Show 'Reimagining the Future Through Art.' opening December 2023.
Amy creates artwork that celebrates nature’s beauty and music. Her ceramic pieces and paintings explore natural shapes, colors and textures, embodying the energy of movement and light found in nature. She is inspired by the organic forms and patterns present in the environment around her as well as the power of music and song and is passionate about transferring these into her work.
Artist Statement:
As a multidisciplinary artist, I create vibrant artwork that celebrates nature’s patterns and colors and most recently the expression of the strong influence of music and song. My ceramic pieces and paintings explode with bold textures and bright hues of color embodying the energy of movement and light found in nature. My work is an expression of not only the physical and visual exquisite forms and patterns present in the environment around me, but also of the emotions within me as I listen to music when I create. Music has become an integral part of my work, encouraging me to transfer the sentiments of my soul onto the canvas or clay surface.
