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Works available:
  "Burning House #1"
2009
Oil on canvas
40" x 30"
  "Burning House #1"
2009
Oil on canvas
40" x 30"
  "Wildfire #1"
2009
Oil on canvas
40" x 30"
  "Wildfire #2"
2009
Oil on canvas
30" x 40"
  "Fire Study #4"
2009
Oil on board
8" x 21"
  "Strawberry Pickers #5"
2005
Oil on canvas
42" x 24"
  "Surfers #3"
2004
Oil on canvas
18" x 36"
  "Winter #2"
2007
Oil on canvas
41" x 31"
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Biography
In the paintings by Amy Bird, there are no qualifying characteristics inherent in any given subject matter. Cultural, historical, political or personal judgmental evaluations are formed solely by what the subject incites in the viewers mind. Bird lives in Southern California, a region rife with potentially contentious subject matter. She chooses what is most interesting to her - the overlap of the natural world and the landscaped one, as well as the space between. Through stylistic intention, she then renders her subjects into objects, neutralizing them, draining them of emotion, and in doing so, hopes to offer the viewer the opportunity to decide- to see as a Buddhist might, objectively, detached, or to bring to the viewing their own filters and subjectivities.

Amy Bird grew up in Ojai, California. She received her BA in painting from Dartmouth College and her MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. Her work has been exhibited throughout the United States. She lives and works in Studio City, California

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Resume

AMY BIRD

Solo Exhibitions

2007 Gilman Contemporary, Ketchum, Idaho
2007 "Californian Idyll" Milo Gallery, Los Angeles, California
2002 "New Paintings" Sol Koffler Gallery, Providence, Rhode Island
2000 "New Paintings" The Northhaven Gallery, Northhaven, Maine
1998 "On the Rocks" The Northhaven Gallery, Northhaven, Maine
1998 The Haven Gallery, Vinalhaven, Maine
1997 The Northhaven Gallery, Northhaven, Maine

Group Shows

2007 "Glass Love" Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, California
2003 RISD Alumni show Orbetello Gallery, Los Angeles, California
2002 The RISD museum, Providence, Rhode Island
2002 "Island Fair" The Fog Gallery, Vinalhaven, Maine
2000 Slozberg Gallery, Brandeis University
1996 The Fog Gallery, Vinalhaven, Maine
1995 Jaffe - Freide Gallery, Hanover, New Hampshire
1995 The Bridge Street Gallery, Waitsfield, Vermont

Publications

2008 New American Paintings

Education

2002 MFA, Painting, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island
2000 Certificate of the Arts, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts
1995 BA, Studio Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire