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I am an artist rooted in
traditional methodologies, with an observation-based practice that is expressed
through drawing, printmaking, and installation. My work often investigates
repetitive structures, both interior and exterior, through extensive research
conducted on location over the course of several months or years.
Structures I am often compelled to explore are apartment complexes, research
institutions, commercial agricultural facilities, and unconventional spaces
such as an abandoned charter school in a retrofitted airplane hanger. Many
of these spaces often require permission from property owners or institution
directors to gain access during the course of a given project.
Revisiting a specific site over
long periods of time builds a personal relationship and emotional connection
that allows my observations to redefine the function or purpose of a building
or facility. Investigating timelessness and ambiguity of space
often results in drastically editing or distorting structural details and perspective.
The intentional lack of contrast and color leaves little reference as to when
or where these spaces exist. Additionally, as means to validate or
solidify a space I depict and emphasize objects and forms that serve as
artifacts or attributes of a specific space, such as mechanical, electrical, or
operational components and discarded remnants of furniture or trash.
My experience in each location
presents a delicate balance of the sacred and the secular, restriction and
protection, confinement and efficiency, authority and submission. The
organization of the different types of structures such as research
institutions, agricultural facilities and that of urban spaces found in
hospitals, factories, prisons, and schools not only serve their function, but
also speak of deeper social constructs. The purpose of my work is to
raise awareness of spatial constructs within modern human society.
Bio
Amie
Rangel has a BFA in Drawing/Painting and Printmaking (Magna Cum Laude) from
California
State University in 2005. She then received and MFA (Magna Cum Laude) in
Drawing
and Intermedia program at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta
Canada.
During her thesis research she was awarded an international award from the
Elizabeth
Greenshields Foundation in 2008, as well as, scholarships from the Alberta
Foundation
for the Arts and Florence Anderson Friedman Foundation in 2007 and 2008.
She
has taught at the University of Alberta, College of the Sequoias in Visalia CA,
University
of New Mexico and currently teaches at Central New Mexico Community
College
in Albuquerque. She has been honored to receive the Graduate Student
Teaching
Award for the University of Alberta as well as a nomination for the Hayward
Award,
California State Community College Educator of Excellence on behalf of College
of
the Sequoias. Rangel has exhibited at Vane Gallery in Newcastle, England; Banff
Center
for the Arts in Banff Alberta; Art Gallery of Alberta; Bakersfield Museum of
Art,
California;
Appleton Museum of Art, Florida; Denver, Colorado; Kansas City, Missouri;
Nashville,
Tennessee; and Oakland, California.
See more of Rangel's work at http://www.amierangelstudio.com/
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