Amy Lin
Amy Lin is an American artist now living and working in London, where she
recently relocated from Pretoria, South Africa. Lin has had 15 solo exhibitions in
New York City, Tokyo, and Houston. Lin has been reviewed in the Washington Post
and American Contemporary Art magazine and published in New American
Paintings and art critic Lenny Campello's book "100 Artists of Washington, D.C.”
Notably, she was the recipient of the John Anson Kittredge Grant, the D.C. Commission for the Arts and Humanities Grant, and the Strauss Fellowship Grant. Residencies in Tokyo and Singapore have allowed the artist to interact with other art
professionals and collectors in Asia and to refine and inform her work.
“My art explores the idea of being an outsider in society. In creating these drawing/
sculpture hybrids, the drawings are obscured by layers of cut paper. Because parts of
each drawing are hidden, the viewer has to move around and peer into the openings to
see the drawing underneath. But just as with any outsider,
the viewer can’t fully understand or see the whole picture and can only infer what is
happening beneath, based on the tiny glimpses that are visible from the surface.
My choice of medium may seem surprising as the drawings and cut-out forms are often
mistaken for being digitally produced or laser-cut, but the artist uses some of the most
basic media – a pencil and a knife – as a counterbalance. Technology is usually assumed to outperform human capability for accuracy and precision, but my art develops
organically in a stream-of-consciousness, each mark suggesting thenext, the finished
product a surprise. Because the marks are hand-drawn, they are analogous to human
beings – the differences or “imperfections” are what makes each of us beautiful.“
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