Painter Amy Chan Exhibition to Open the Year at the Mercy Gallery

Press Release From Loomis Chaffee:

Painter Amy Chan Exhibition to Open The Year at The Mercy Gallery

WINDSOR, Conn.— Painter Amy Chan brings her “slices of natural imagery,” to her art exhibition entitled “Petrified Forest” at the Sue and Eugene Mercy Jr. Gallery located in the Richmond Art Center on the campus of The Loomis Chaffee School from September 20 through October 31.

Chan’s work in gouache and acrylic draws inspiration from the forest ecosystem of the East Coast and the landscapes she discovers through travel. She has received the Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant, The Lower East Side Printshop’s Special Editions Fellowship, and has been an artist-in-residence at Onoma Fiskars in Finland, the Jentel Foundation in Wyoming and Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona. A graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, she obtained her MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, where she currently teaches.

“When I am outdoors I walk with my eyes on the ground, always searching,” she notes. “I see the natural world as many pieces of a puzzle, part of my inventory of objects that is ever growing. With an acorn in my pocket or a tracing of lichens in mind, I store away slices of imagery to cobble together as I please. Back in the studio I build them into hybrid scenes of the living world where rules like gravity and perspective do not apply. In my imagined environs, water spouts, islands and rocks float playfully across space, adorned by the trappings of nature rendered in delicate detail.”

Chan’s work is noted for the distortions of nature that often lend a science fiction-like presence to the work, along with an occasional dose of humor. Her prints have been featured in selected exhibitions throughout the East Coast and Europe, as well as in permanent collections in The Center for Book Arts in New York, Hallmark, Inc. in Kansas City, Fidelity Investments in Boston, and Capital One in Richmond. She has an upcoming exhibition at the Scottsdale Civic Center in Arizona.

There will be an opening reception on Tuesday, September 20, from 6:45–8:45 p.m. The public is invited to attend the opening reception and view the exhibitions during regular gallery hours. The Sue and Eugene Mercy, Jr. Gallery is located in the Richmond Art Center on the campus of The Loomis Chaffee School in Windsor, Connecticut.  The gallery is open Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Tuesday and Thursday evenings from 7:30– 9 p.m. and Sunday afternoon from 1– 4 p.m.  There is no admission charge.  Please note that the gallery is closed during school vacations. For additional information, call the Richmond Art Center Information Line, 860-687-6030 or visit www.mercygallery.org.

CONTACT: Jeuley Ortengren, Communications Assistant, The Loomis Chaffee School, 4 Batchelder Road Windsor, CT 06095, 860-687-6097, Fax 860-687-6552