Amy Sacksteder [VIEW INFORMATION]  [VIEW GALLERY]   [VIEW BOTH]
Office: Sherzer 406
Phone: 487-1268

Office Hours:

MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT SUN - 10:00-1:00 & 4:00 - 5:00 - 5:00 - 8:00 (by appointment only)   - 12:00 - 1:00 - 10:00-12:00 & 5:00-6:00 (by appointment only) Undergrad. Coordinator - Make appt. w/ Art office - 6:00 - 8:00 (by appointment only)

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Bio:

Amy Sacksteder was born in Augusta, Georgia. She received a BA in English with Minors in Art and French from University of Dayton, and her MFA in painting from Northern Illinois University. She began teaching at EMU in 2006.

Recent publications, exhibitions and/or presentations:

• SACKSTEDER, SANDLER, APPLIN, three-person exhibition with Arielle Sandler and Isak Applin, curated by Paul Erschen, Moser Performing Arts Center Gallery, University of St. Francis, Joliet, Illinois, 2007
  
• Drawing Invitational, curated by Darice Polo, also featuring the Pierogi Flatfiles, School of Art Gallery, Kent State University, Ohio, 2007
  
• Earth World, group exhibition curated by Kendall Babl, presented by BU-CON, Russell Industrial Center, Detroit, Michigan, 2007
  
• Some Assembly Required, Juried by Lauren Levato, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, 2007
  
• Drawing No Conclusions: A survey of contemporary drawing, juried exhibition, The Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 2006-07

Artist Statement:

For the past several years, I have sought though my work, to isolate imagery from the world around me- from birds on power lines and skeletal trees against the sky I saw on my commutes to work to broken bits of fence and tattered flags in a used car lot in my Chicago neighborhood.  I was simultaneously influenced by the natural world and silhouettes, silk-screened imagery on t-shirts in boutiques, tattoos and band tees on hipsters in Wicker Park. 

It took moving away from the large skies of Illinois, away from the consumer culture of Chicago, for me to realize that my artwork was (and is) a perpetuation of an already prevalent hipster aesthetic.  It was coming across a necklace on Etsy (a website for indie handmade goods) that closely resembled one of my paintings that brought this realization home.  That event was a catalyst for my most recent series of work, The Beautiful Ones. 

In these drawings and paintings (sometimes paired with t-shirts), I seek to understand the why behind hipster, rock kid, art kid- sanctioned images.  By focusing on animals, I have selected images that originate in nature.  I am interested not only in the preference of certain animals and imagery over others, but also in the process of appropriation---the distance that an animal must travel from its source in the wild, to its translation into slick silhouettes and layered silk-screened images, to its subsequent marketing and distribution; from an individual living creature to a ubiquitous symbol.

Link to Amy Sacksteder's website.

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John DeHoog [VIEW INFORMATION]  [VIEW GALLERY]   [VIEW BOTH]
Office: 101 Briggs
Phone: (734) 487-0192

Christopher Hyndman [VIEW INFORMATION]  [VIEW GALLERY]   [VIEW BOTH]
Office: 406A Sherzer
Phone: (734) 487-1268 x 246