Amie Potsic, *Forest Light & Twilight*, Cherry Street Pier, Installation view, 25’H x 20’W x 160’L, 2023, © Amie Potsic 2023

September 13, 2023

Amie Potsic discusses the process of creating her new installation at the Cherry Street Pier for the 20/20 Photo Festival and how experiential art can inspire new perspectives and positive action on climate.

Amie Potsic is photographer and installation artist whose work addresses cultural, personal, and natural phenomena through the lens of social responsibility and climate change. 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; the Museum of New Art in Detroit; The Woodmere Art Museum, The National Constitution Center Museum, The Painted Bride, and James Oliver Gallery in Philadelphia; The Delaware Contemporary in Wilmington, DE; Mission 17 in San Francisco; and 626 Gallery in Los Angeles. She won Best in Show for her work in Experimental Photography Today at The Delaware Contemporary in 2015 and was featured in Keystone 1, the inaugural Pennsylvania Photography Biennial, at Silver Eye Center for Photography in Pittsburgh the same year. 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 and published her work in The San Francisco Chronicle and The Philadelphia Inquirer. Potsic has been a guest lecturer at The International Center of Photography and is the Host of Art Watch Radio and Podcast on WCHE 1520 & 95.3 in Greater Philadelphia.

Artist Statement
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 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 allure and dynamism of the forest to share my sense of wonder, develop our connection to trees, and support 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.

Video & Artwork: Amie Potsic, Forest Light and Twilight, Installation View, 25' x 20' x 160', Photographic imagery printed on mesh, Cherry Street Pier, 2023, © Amie Potsic 2023

AMIE POTSIC

FOREST LIGHT & tWILIGHT

On view from September 1 - October 1, 2023 at the Cherry Street Pier, Philadelphia

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Banner Image: Amie Potsic, Forest Light & Twilight, Cherry Street Pier, Installation view, 25’H x 20’W x 160’L, 2023, © Amie Potsic 2023