About

Amy Genser plays with paper, paint, and glue to explore her fascination and obsession with texture, pattern, color. Evocative of natural forms and organic processes, her work is both irregular and ordered. She construct her pieces by layering, cutting, rolling, and combining paper. Sometimes she adds metal and wood.

The sources of her work are textures, patterns, and grids. She looks for forms that can be repeated to create a pattern when they are joined. Her work tries to capture the essence of an experience or an image she has seen. She often look to the natural world for inspiration. She fascinated by the flow of water, the organization of beehives, and the organic irregularity of plants, flowers, rock formations, barnacles, moss, and seaweed, and aerial views of our landscape.

It was during a papermaking class in graduate school for Graphic Design at the Rhode Island School of Design, that Amy began her love affair with paper. Amy lives in West Hartford with her husband and three sons.

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Exhibitions

Elisa Contemporary Art
Cut, Rolled and Burnt. Manipulated Works of Pape, group show
Riverdale, NY
May/June 2013

Long View Gallery
Solo Show, Nov/Dec 2013
Coiled Terrain, Solo Show 2011
New Gallery Artists Group Show
Washington, DC
2011

Architectural Digest Home Show
New York City
2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010

The Chase Family Gallery at the Mandell JCC, Solo Show
Bloomfield, CT
April 8–May 16, 2010

Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show
Philadelphia, PA
2004, 2007

Washington Craft Show
Washington, DC
2002, 2003, 2004

Westchester Craft Show
White Plains, NY
2004, 2006, 2007

Craft Boston
The World Trade Center, Boston, MA
2004

Mark Gallery, Quatro
Cambridge, MA
2004

Katie Gingrass Gallery, Art for the Office
Milwaukee, WI
2003

Society of Arts and Crafts
Retail Gallery Featured Window Artist
Boston, MA
May 2002

Grimshaw-Gudewicz Art Gallery, Bristol Community College
Six-woman Invitational Show, Beneath the Surface: Rock Paper Threads,
Fall River, MA
2003

ACC Baltimore Craft Show
Baltimore, MD
2003

John Slade Ely House
Six-person Invitational Show
New Haven, CT
2002

Crafts at the Castle
Boston, MA
2002, 2003

risd|works
Small Works,
Providence, RI
2002

Gallery 402, The Organization of Independent Artists
New York, NY
2002

Silvermine Art Guild
Art of the Northeast
New Canaan, CT
2002

Kathryn Shultz Gallery, Cambridge Art Association
Group Show, National Prize Show
Cambridge, MA
2002

Collections

Meditech Corporation
Canton, MA

Novartis Pharmaceuticals World Headquarters
Cambridge, MA

Wellington Management
Boston, MA and Tokyo, Japan

Fidelity Investments, Boston, MA

Coventry First
Philadelphia, PA

MacGray Corp
Cambridge, MA

Merecedes Benz

Kaiser Permanente

Numerous Private Collections

Education

Rhode Island School of Design
Providence, Rhode Island
2001
MFA in Graphic Design

Washington University
St. Louis, Missouri
1996
BA in History with College Honors
Minor in Graphic Communications

Awards

Collector’s Award
Westchester Craft Show
2007

Women's Studio Workshop Fellowship
Rosendale, NY
Fall 2002
A two week fellowship to use the papermaking studio to create paper for my work.

The Tomas Gonda Award from Design and Social Responsibility
Rhode Island School of Design
2001
For excellence in responsible graphic design with regard to critical social issues and social justice. Awarded by the faculty of the department of graphic design. My thesis project was included in a publication produced and distributed by the RISD Graphic Design department. The publication promotes and publicizes student work in areas of design that relate to social responsibility.

The Rhode Island Holocaust Museum Memorial Wall
2000
My proposal for The Rhode Island Holocaust Memorial Museum Memorial Wall was selected in state-wide competition. Juried by the Board of Directors for the Holocaust Museum. I collaborated with Cheryl Hanba, RISD MFA '00 on the design. The project is still on hold.