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Amy Greenan: Nothing is About to Happen
May 3, 2009
The Castellani Art Museum’s TopSpin Series continues with Amy Greenan: Nothing Was About to Happen, opening with a reception and artist’s talk from 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. on Sunday, February 1, 2009.
Amy Greenan studied painting and drawing at the State University of New York, Purchase and earned an MFA from the University at Buffalo. She currently resides in Niagara Falls, New York, where she maintains an active studio. As an unwavering advocate of the Do-It-Yourself movement, Greenan has been making zines, self-published, photocopied magazines, as an alternate art form for over a decade. She is a member of the Western New York Book Arts Collaborative and has participated in the Buffalo Small Press Book Fair and Canzine in Toronto, Canada. Greenan has exhibited her paintings, drawings, prints, books, and zines locally and nationally. Her work is included in private collections in the United States and Canada.
For the upcoming exhibition, Greenan has delved into her studio achives to reconfigure pieces that were previously abandoned or set aside. “Through this work, I am reconstructing my past and those events that occurred within it–real or imagined, dreamt of or heard about.” Greenan adds, “Using words and images from a variety of sources, these works are often injected with the absurd and surreal, heavily influenced by graphic design work I do by day and comic books I have read voraciously throughout the years.”
The artist will present a workshop, Invisible Voices: Zines as Art at the Castellani Art Museum on Sunday, May 3, 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. To RSVP or for more information on the workshop call Curator Michael J. Beam at 716-286-8286 or email mjbeam@niagara.edu.
The latest in the museum’s series of solo exhibitions profiling emerging artists of Western New York, Nothing is About to Happen runs through May 17, 2009. The TopSpin series is sponsored by Tops Friendly Markets. The Castellani Art Museum of Niagara University is open Tuesday – Saturday, 11 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. and Sundays 1:00 – 5:00 p.m. Admission is free. For more information on the exhibition and its related programming, 716-286-8286.
