Amanda Browder
Amanda Browder | |
|---|---|
 Amanda Browder, 2019 | |
| Born | Missoula, Montana |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| Known for | installation art |
| Website | amandabrowder |
Amanda Browder (born 1976 in Missoula, MT) is an American installation artist known for her large-scale fabric installations on building exteriors and other public sites. Her work incorporates donated materials and local volunteers, creating site-specific art.[1] She is the recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, and Transformation Fellowship from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV).
Biography[edit]
Browder was raised in Montana.[2] She began sewing when she was in third grade, starting her interest in fabric.[3] Browder received an MFA/MA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and has taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.[4] She is based in Brooklyn, New York.[5]
Career[edit]
Browder produces large-scale fabric installations for building exteriors and other public sites.[5] Browder was part of the show, "Hubris," at the Hyde Park Art Center in 2004.[6] In 2005, she, Duncan MacKenzie and Richard Holland founded the "Bad at Sports" podcast which covers local arts scenes.[7] Browder has collaborated with Chief Curator of the Art Gallery of Mississauga Stuart Keeler on several projects between 2006 and 2008 as the collective known as Career Day.[8][9]
In 2010, Browder gave a presentation at the Winkelman Gallery in Chelsea for the "#class" exhibition.[10] Also in 2010, she worked on a collaborative public art piece with the North Brooklyn Public Art Coalition.[2] The project was called "Future Phenomenon" and encouraged Brooklyn residents to work together on a large-scale sewing project.[11]
Browder exhibited one work at the 2012 Arts@Renaissance event in Greenpoint, Brooklyn;[12] one work at the 2012 Dumbo Arts Festival in Brooklyn;[13][14] one work at the New Museum's Ideas City Festival;[15] and a project at the 2013 FAB Fest in New York City.[16] Browder participated in the annual Bushwick Open Studios event in 2013.[17] Browder also showed one work at a Kickstarter party in Greenpoint, Brooklyn celebrating the 2014 opening of a new company building.[18]
Browder has also exhibited at the University of Alabama at Birmingham AAHD, Birmingham, AL;[19] Nuit Blanche Public Art Festival/LEITMOTIF in Toronto; Mobinale, Prague; Allegra LaViola Gallery, NYC; Nakaochiai Gallery, Tokyo; White Columns, NYC; No Longer Empty, Brooklyn.[20] Browder's first large-scale computer-generated digital patterning debut was her project 'At Night We Light Up for the Indianapolis Power & Light Building, unveiled on June 30, 2016, and shown August 26 and 27 as part of a free interactive light festival hosted by the Central Indiana Community Foundation.[21][22]
In 2016, she received her first National Endowment for the Arts grant to work with the Albright Knox Museum to cover the Buffalo Public Library.[4] In 2016, she sheathed three historic buildings in Buffalo using hundreds of yards of donated fabric.[3][23][24] The three buildings include 950 Broadway, the former Richmond Methodist Episcopal Church at Richmond Avenue and West Ferry Street and Albright-Knox's Clifton Hall. The pieces were created from fabric collected and donated from all over the Buffalo area, sewn together by a collection of community volunteers.[23]
In April 2019 Browder installed "The Land of Hidden Gems" as the inaugural UNLV Transformation Fellow.[25] In June 2019 Browder installed "City of Threads" at the Arlington Arts Center in Arlington, Virginia.[1] In September 2019 she installed "Kaleidoscopic" in ArtPrize's "Project 1" in Grand Rapids, Michigan. It included draping a community center building, and covering four sky walks located in downtown Grand Rapids.[26]
In 2021 Browder was invited to participate in the Bruges Triennial in Bruges, Belgium. Her entry Happy Coincidences consists of three temporary and one permanent installation throughout the city.[27] One installation is a large canvas digital print on architectural mesh hanging along the Verversdijk.[28]
References[edit]
- ^ a b "Gallery Experience: Sewing with Amanda Browder". Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian. Archived from the original on 2021-11-13. Retrieved 16 June 2019.
- ^ a b Lazarowitz, Elizabeth (13 April 2010). "Arty Sew & Sews Dress Up Bldg". NY Daily News. Retrieved 17 June 2016.
- ^ a b Dabkowski, Colin (6 April 2016). "Public Art Project Will Dress Three Buffalo Buildings in Fabric". Buffalo News. Retrieved 17 June 2016 – via EBSCO.
- ^ a b "Amanda Browder - ArtFile Magazine". www.artfilemagazine.com. Retrieved 2018-03-03.
- ^ a b "Amanda Browder to Cover Birmingham Buildings in Rainbow Fabric - In the Air - BLOUIN ARTINFO Blogs". blogs.artinfo.com. Archived from the original on 2016-06-24. Retrieved 2016-06-15.
- ^ Hawkins, Margaret (4 June 2004). "Gallery Glance". Chicago Sun Times. Archived from the original on 11 September 2016. Retrieved 17 June 2016 – via HighBeam Research.
- ^ Waxman, Lori (4 September 2015). "'Bad at Sports' Makes Art Make Sense, at Ground Level". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 17 June 2016.
- ^ "Daily Constitutional, Issue 1, Art, Table of Contents, Sculpture, Painting, Writing, Installation, Sound, Video, Drawing, Etc." www.dailyconstitutional.org. Retrieved 2018-03-03.
- ^ Browder, Amanda. "Collaborative Bio". www.amandabrowder.com. Amanda Browder. Archived from the original on 7 October 2018. Retrieved 15 June 2016.
- ^ Cotter, Holland (19 March 2010). "#class". The New York Times. Retrieved 16 June 2016.
- ^ Leighton, Kyle (4 May 2010). "Greenpoint's Next Façade". The Brooklyn Rail. Retrieved 17 June 2016.
- ^ Mills, Jennifer (27 February 2012). "A Look Inside Greenpoint's Arts@Renaissance Space". The L Magazine. Retrieved 15 June 2016.
- ^ Nunez, Joann Kim (2 October 2012). "Dumbo Arts Festival: A Recap". Hyperallergic. Retrieved 16 June 2016.
- ^ "Dumbo Arts Festival 2012". Dumbo Arts Festival. Archived from the original on 2014-02-09. Retrieved 16 June 2016.
- ^ "SUSTAIN: Steering Urban Sustainability Through Action, Innovation, & Networks". www.newmuseum.org. Retrieved 2016-06-24.
- ^ "Solar Off the Roof at the New Museum's IDEAS CITY StreetFest - Solar One". www.solar1.org. Archived from the original on 2016-09-20. Retrieved 2016-06-24.
- ^ Trebay, Guy (5 June 2013). "Ambling Through Bushwick Open Studios". The New York Times. Retrieved 15 June 2016.
- ^ Lynch, Scott. "Photos: Kickstarter's Greenpoint Block Party". Gothamist. Archived from the original on 8 May 2015. Retrieved 15 June 2016.
- ^ "Community sewing days: UAB presents fabric artist Amanda Browder". Create Birmingham: Birmingham 365. Archived from the original on 14 August 2016. Retrieved 8 July 2016.
- ^ "No Longer Empty Exhibition". The Invisible Dog Gallery. Archived from the original on 18 August 2016. Retrieved 8 July 2016.
- ^ Staff. "Indiana Community Foundation to hold light festival". WISH TV. Retrieved 8 July 2016.
- ^ Fischer, Jordan (July 2016). "WATCH: Indy Foundation hosts colorful light show downtown". WRTV-Online. WRTV. Retrieved 8 July 2016.
- ^ a b Dabkowski, Colin. "Public art project transforms three Buffalo buildings". The Buffalo News. Archived from the original on 8 October 2016. Retrieved 18 August 2016.
- ^ Smith, Brett (11 August 2016). "CAN'T MISS: SPECTRAL LOCUS ART INSTALLATION". Step Out Buffalo. Retrieved 18 August 2016.
- ^ Vaughan, Jennifer (20 March 2019). "Art Department Unveils Transformation Fellow Amanda Browder's Installation April 2–12". UW/ART. Retrieved 16 June 2019.
- ^ "Amanda Browder". Project 1 by ArtPrize. Archived from the original on 29 January 2022. Retrieved 26 September 2019.
- ^ "Amanda Browder". Triënnale Bruges 2021. Retrieved 25 May 2021.[permanent dead link]
- ^ Vankerkhoven, Stefan (2021-05-03). "Amerikaanse Amanda Browder maakt geveldoek met één kilometer stof voor Triënnale Brugge". Krant van West-Vlaanderen (in Dutch). Retrieved 25 May 2021.
