Installation at the Wiota Street Garden in Philadelphia, 2022, © Amie Potsic

September 7, 2022

Constance McBride interviews Amie Potsic about her exhibitions and lectures presented through the 2020 Photo Festival in Philadelphia this September.

“My work references the sensory experience of being within the forest while encouraging us to appreciate and preserve its future. Incarnate environmental explorations, my photographs, mixed media works, 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 beautiful delicacy of the forest to share my sense of wonder and engender a connection to trees. Personal experience underscoring the urgency of climate change, I draw attention to deforestation by creating visceral and cerebral connections to trees.”

— Amie Potsic

Amie Potsic is an accomplished photographer and installation artist awarded for her experimental and poignant work. Exhibiting internationally, her work has been shown and published in Europe, South America, and the United States with a recent solo exhibition at The Delaware Contemporary Museum.
Her uniquely innovative approach to photography creates three-dimensional, immersive installations as well as exceptionally refined prints and mixed media works. Focusing attention on environmental issues and climate change, Potsic’s evocative work addresses cultural, personal, and natural phenomena through the lens of social responsibility.

About the Artist
Potsic has created artwork in her own backyard and the ends of the earth, from photographing religious rituals in India to wildfire devastation in Northern California. In over 20 solo shows and 100 group exhibitions, Potsic has exhibited her work internationally at the Art Park in Rhodes, Greece; The Royal College of London, England; Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá, Colombia; Medfoundart di Cagliari, Italy; the Museum of New Art in Detroit; The Woodmere Art Museum and The National Constitution Center Museum in Philadelphia; and The Delaware Contemporary Museum in Wilmington, DE. Her work was the topic of The Review Panel, presented by ArtCritical at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 2015, and won Best in Show at the Delaware Contemporary Museum in New Eyes: Experimental Photography Today. Her work has been published in The San Francisco Chronicle, Root Quarterly, and the Philadelphia Inquirer and has been featured on NPR’s Delaware Public Media.

Amie Potsic received her MFA in Photography from the San Francisco Art Institute and BA’s in Photojournalism and English Literature from Indiana University where she graduated with Distinguished Honors and a member of Phi Beta Kappa honor society. She has held faculty appointments at the University of California at Berkeley and the San Francisco Art Institute and has been a guest lecturer at The International Center of Photography. Potsic is Host of the Art Watch Radio Show and Podcast on WCHE and is the CEO & Principal Curator of Amie Potsic Art Advisory, LLC.

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To learn more about Amie Potsic’s upcoming exhibitions and events, visit: https://www.amiepotsicartadvisory.com/events and follow APAA on IG @apartadvisor.