Amie Potsic will present Midnight Mass at The Delaware Contemporary, January 24 - April 25, 2020.
Opening Reception: Friday, February 7, 5 - 9 PM.
Artist Statement – Midnight Mass
“My work references the sensory experience of being within the forest while encouraging us all to appreciate and preserve its future. Incarnate environmental explorations, my photographs and installations invite you to connect with your own perception of nature in a manner that is both intimate and enchanting. I focus on the beauty and mystery of the forest to share my sense of wonder, develop our connection to trees, and encourage environmental protections. Personal experience underscoring the urgency of climate change, I draw attention to deforestation by creating visceral and cerebral connections to trees and the natural world.
Midnight Mass is a site-specific installation created from over 250 feet of silk. The semi-translucent silk with photographic imagery from the forest weaves its way through the air to arch, bend, and arabesque in the sky. The panels extend from the entrance reaching up toward the looming windows behind to be backlit like stained glass. The installation fills the space in graceful, abstract lines and draping, drawing the eye up toward the apex of the room. Looking up at the illuminated silk, a conjured sense of our own scale, akin to what we feel in a cathedral or looking up at the forest canopy, enhances the experience of the artwork and museum’s architecture.”
- Amie Potsic
Biography
Amie Potsic, MFA is an accomplished photographer and installation artist living in the Philadelphia area whose work addresses cultural, personal, and natural phenomena. Potsic has exhibited her work internationally at the Art Park in Rhodes, Greece; Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá, Colombia; Medfoundart di Cagliari, Italy; the Royal College of London, England as well as in museums and galleries throughout the United States. Potsic received her MFA in Photography from the San Francisco Art Institute and BA’s in Photojournalism and English Literature from Indiana University, graduating with Distinguished Honors and a member of Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society. She has held faculty appointments at the University of California at Berkeley, Ohlone College, and the San Francisco Art Institute, published her work in The San Francisco Chronicle and The Philadelphia Inquirer, and has been a guest lecturer at The International Center of Photography. Potsic is currently the CEO & Principal of Amie Potsic Art Advisory, LLC and Chair of the Art in City Hall Artistic Advisory Board to the Office of Arts and Culture of the City of Philadelphia.
“Some artists devote entire careers to a single obsession. Amie Potsic manages to divert a series of obsessions into clear and direct narratives that nonetheless build seamlessly into her own artistic portfolio.... The full scope of her oeuvre interacts and builds a distinct artistic voice.”
- Nicholas Shonberger, Independent Scholar