Artwork
#Amy Feigley-Lee
#collage
#discovered objects
#geometric
#paper
#classic
“Untitled Wallpaper Abstraction #36” (2024), discovered wallpaper on birch panel, 36 x 48 x 8 inches. Photograph by Tim Johnson. All pictures © Amy Feigley-Lee, shared with permission
From a distance, Amy Feigley-Lee’s colourful compositions are ambiguous and alluring. Are they woven? Protruding? Hole? The nearer one strikes, particulars of meticulously-layered strips of wallpaper emerge on deep, geometric panels. Emphasizing shade, sample, and distinction, the artist performs with perspective and builds visible rhythms from the fastidiously organized classic materials.
“The first wallpaper I used was a remnant from my grandmother’s living room,” Feigley-Lee tells Colossal. “It was a pastoral toile that really lent itself to narrative. I later found a cache of floral remnants in her attic. I used what I found, and soon after, friends and family started giving me wallpaper that they had laying around.” Now she sources a lot of her materials from eBay, storage gross sales, or wherever she will be able to discover it.
Feigley-Lee is captivated by the associations we’ve with decorative patterns and inside furnishings. “Domestic patterns are meant to be decorative in a way that is soothing, pacifying, demure, and reflective of cultural norms,” she says. These concepts compelled her to strategy the medium extra conceptually, specializing in installation-based works that problem conventional functions on broad, flat surfaces.
To create the foundations for every venture, Feigley-Lee commissions Nick Pence of Pence High quality Artwork Companies to assemble bespoke, geometric birch panels that present a clean substrate. As soon as the panels are within the studio, she begins the meditative strategy of hand-cutting the paper into skinny strips. The artist then arranges the items by dimension, saturation, and tonal values. She says, “I am excited about confounding the viewer and their perception of space, really engaging the viewer in a way that allows them to slow down and look deeply.”
Feigley-Lee’s work is on view in Detroit as a part of Louis Buhl & Co.’s Salon Spotlight collection by July 17. See rather more on the artist’s web site, and take a look at her Instagram, the place she usually shares insights into her course of.
“Untitled Wallpaper Abstraction #37” (2024), discovered wallpaper on birch panel, 36 x 32 x 6 inches. Photograph by Tim Johnson
Left: “Untitled Wallpaper Abstraction #30” (2023), discovered wallpaper on birch panel, 6 x 6 x 1 inches. Proper: “Untitled Wallpaper Abstraction #24” (2023), discovered wallpaper on birch panel, 35 x 45 x 6 inches. Images by PD Rearick
Element of a piece in progress
“Untitled Wallpaper Abstraction #32” (2023), discovered wallpaper on birch panel, 42 x 32 x 7 inches. Photograph by PD Rearick
Studio view with “Untitled Wallpaper Abstraction #24” in progress
“Untitled Wallpaper Abstraction #34” (2023), discovered wallpaper on birch panel, 53.25 x 20 x 3.5 inches. Photograph by PD Rearick
“Untitled Wallpaper Abstractions #22, #29, #30, and #31” in progress
#Amy Feigley-Lee
#collage
#discovered objects
#geometric
#paper
#classic
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