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Pleasant has participated in group exhibitions at venues such as the [[Knoxville Museum of Art]] ([[Knoxville, TN]]), the [[Weatherspoon Art Museum]] ([[Greensboro, NC]]), [[Columbus Museum of Art]] ([[Columbus, GA]]), the Wiregrass Museum of Art ([[Dothan, AL]]), the [[National Museum of Women in the Arts]] ([[Washington, DC]]), the [[Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art]] ([[Winston-Salem, NC]]), the [[Art Museum of the University of Memphis]] ([[Memphis, TN]]), the [[Mobile Museum of Art]] ([[Mobile, AL]]), the United States Embassy in [[Prague, Czech Republic]], the [[Huntsville Museum of Art]] ([[Huntsville, AL]]), and the 2019 Atlanta Biennial.<ref>{{cite web |title=Artists List |url=https://atlantacontemporary.org/exhibitions/2019bnl |website=2019 Atlanta Biennial |accessdate=1 March 2019}}</ref>
Pleasant has participated in group exhibitions at venues such as the [[Knoxville Museum of Art]] ([[Knoxville, TN]]), the [[Weatherspoon Art Museum]] ([[Greensboro, NC]]), [[Columbus Museum of Art]] ([[Columbus, GA]]), the Wiregrass Museum of Art ([[Dothan, AL]]), the [[National Museum of Women in the Arts]] ([[Washington, DC]]), the [[Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art]] ([[Winston-Salem, NC]]), the [[Art Museum of the University of Memphis]] ([[Memphis, TN]]), the [[Mobile Museum of Art]] ([[Mobile, AL]]), the United States Embassy in [[Prague, Czech Republic]], the [[Huntsville Museum of Art]] ([[Huntsville, AL]]), and the 2019 Atlanta Biennial.<ref>{{cite web |title=Artists List |url=https://atlantacontemporary.org/exhibitions/2019bnl |website=2019 Atlanta Biennial |accessdate=1 March 2019}}</ref>
Her work can be found in the collections of the Birmingham Museum of Art, the Knoxville Museum of Art,<ref name="KnoxArtAcquisition" /> the Columbus Museum of Art, the Wiregrass Museum of Art, the [[Progressive Corporation]], and the [[Consulate General of the United States, Dubai|U.S. Consulate General in Dubai]],<ref name="PleasantDubaiConsulate" /> as well as in many private collections.
Her work can be found in the collections of the [[Birmingham Museum of Art]], the Knoxville Museum of Art,<ref name="KnoxArtAcquisition" /> the Columbus Museum of Art, the Wiregrass Museum of Art, the [[Progressive Corporation]], and the [[Consulate General of the United States, Dubai|U.S. Consulate General in Dubai]],<ref name="PleasantDubaiConsulate" /> as well as in many private collections.


Pleasant was commissioned by the American [[ambient music|ambient]]/[[post-rock]] band [[Hammock (band)|Hammock]] to create the album art for its 2013 release, [[Oblivion Hymns]].<ref name="APRAmyPleasantArt" />
Pleasant was commissioned by the American [[ambient music|ambient]]/[[post-rock]] band [[Hammock (band)|Hammock]] to create the album art for its 2013 release, [[Oblivion Hymns]].<ref name="APRAmyPleasantArt" />

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Amy Pleasant
Born1972 (1972)
Birmingham, Alabama
Nationality United States
EducationThe School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Tyler School of Art
Known forPainting, Drawing, Wall Drawing
AwardsJoan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant (2015)

Amy Pleasant (born 1972) is an American painter living and working in Birmingham, AL with representation by the Jeff Bailey Gallery (New York, NY)[1] and Whitespace Gallery (Atlanta, GA).[2] She received a BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an MFA from the Tyler School of Art at Temple University.

Pleasant is best known for her figurative, free associative paintings and drawings that explore simple, daily acts in slowly unfolding narratives. In an article from Art in America, Max Henry wrote that her work “chronicles everyday life…full of existential angst and loneliness, her paintings are able to evoke an empathetic response from the viewer.”[3] David Moos wrote of Pleasant’s work that through “fragments of overlapping narratives” the viewer is allowed to “glimpse the formation of images” and is “made aware of how the painter makes decisions in paint, amending a passage and visibly editing the composite image.”[4] Martha Schwendener, art critic for The New York Times and critic of photography at the Yale School of Art, reviewed Pleasant's work in the contemporary art periodical Artforum, stating that Pleasant's paintings are “laid out in grids which collectively hint at angst-ridden narratives” which are stylistically reminiscent of “early Sue Williams paintings—the vitriolic feminist ones—or comics whose narrative core has disintegrated, leaving behind only the shame, fear, or desire that instigated them in the first place.”[5]

Exhibitions

In addition to the Jeff Bailey Gallery,[1] Pleasant has held solo exhibitions at the Birmingham Museum of Art,[6] The Atlanta Contemporary Art Center (Atlanta, GA), the Tandem Gallery (Birmingham, AL), Rhodes College, The Ruby Green Center for Contemporary Art (Nashville, TN), and the University of Alabama, Birmingham.

Pleasant has participated in group exhibitions at venues such as the Knoxville Museum of Art (Knoxville, TN), the Weatherspoon Art Museum (Greensboro, NC), Columbus Museum of Art (Columbus, GA), the Wiregrass Museum of Art (Dothan, AL), the National Museum of Women in the Arts (Washington, DC), the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (Winston-Salem, NC), the Art Museum of the University of Memphis (Memphis, TN), the Mobile Museum of Art (Mobile, AL), the United States Embassy in Prague, Czech Republic, the Huntsville Museum of Art (Huntsville, AL), and the 2019 Atlanta Biennial.[7]

Her work can be found in the collections of the Birmingham Museum of Art, the Knoxville Museum of Art,[8] the Columbus Museum of Art, the Wiregrass Museum of Art, the Progressive Corporation, and the U.S. Consulate General in Dubai,[9] as well as in many private collections.

Pleasant was commissioned by the American ambient/post-rock band Hammock to create the album art for its 2013 release, Oblivion Hymns.[10] Her prints were featured in the 20th Annual ART PAPERS Auction held in 2019.[11]

Awards

Pleasant is the recipient of an Individual Artist Grant from the Cultural Alliance of Greater Birmingham and the Alabama State Council on the Arts.[12]

In December 2015, Pleasant was announced as one of only 25 recipients of the 2015 Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant, which acknowledges painters and sculptors creating work of exceptional quality through unrestricted career support.[13]

In 2018 she was awarded the prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship.[14]


References

  1. ^ a b "Amy Pleasant :: Jeff Bailey Gallery :: New York". Archived from the original on 2006-06-13. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |dead-url= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  2. ^ "Amy Pleasant - Whitespace Gallery".
  3. ^ "Max Henry, "Amy Pleasant at Jeff Bailey Gallery", Art in America, December 2004".[permanent dead link‍]
  4. ^ Moos, David. Contemporary American Art / Art in Embassies, US Embassy, Prague, Czech Republic, catalogue, 2004.
  5. ^ "Amy Pleasant at Jeff Bailey Gallery - ArtForum".
  6. ^ "Birmingham Museum of Art - Amy Pleasant: Suspended".
  7. ^ "Artists List". 2019 Atlanta Biennial. Retrieved 1 March 2019.
  8. ^ "Knoxville Museum of Art - Spring 2016 Acquisitions: Amy Pleasant" (PDF). Retrieved 2016-06-10.
  9. ^ "U.S. Department of State - Art in Embassies". Retrieved 2016-06-10.
  10. ^ "Alabama Public Radio: Embrace Oblivion". Retrieved 2014-05-20.
  11. ^ "Behind the Screen(print) with Amy Pleasant – Art Papers". www.artpapers.org. Retrieved 2019-03-01.
  12. ^ "Alabama State Council on the Arts Fellowship Grant Awards, March 2003". Archived from the original on 2011-06-22. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  13. ^ "Joan Mitchell Foundation announces the 2015 Painters & Sculptors Grant Recipients". Retrieved 2015-12-22.
  14. ^ "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation - Amy Pleasant". Retrieved 2018-04-05.

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