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Navigating Heaven and Earth
1999, 40 x 48 x 5 in., acrylic, sand, and graphite on canvas on polystyrene

Peak, 1998, mica and clay on canvas on polystyrene

Melee, 1998, biblical text, acrylic and plaster on canvas on polystyrene

Amie Oliver exhibits her work from New Orleans to Maine in the United States, in Paris and in the United Kingdom. She has worked at the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, NY, the Vermont Studio Center, the Glasgow School of Art in Scotland, the Cite’ des Arts Internationale in Paris and the Virginia Center for Creative Arts in Sweet Briar, VA.

She has shown at SOHO20 in NYC, the Salle Sandoz in Paris and will show at 1708 Gallery in Richmond, the Meridian Museum of Art and the Issac Delgado Gallery in New Orleans in the fall of 2001.

Oliver currently divides her time between her studio in Virginia and sitework in New England and Scotland. Her current body of work addresses the history of language, symbols and material culture. These fragmentary objects defy their origins and celebrate their existence through the use of autobiography, recycling of myths and the exploration of the reciprocal effects of entropy and nature in our material world.

E-mail: Amie Oliver [Email address: aoliver2 #AT# vcu.edu - replace #AT# with @ ]