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Back cover: Amy Nelder, I’ll Take a Manhattan, 2023, acrylic on canvas, 16 x 16 in TAMBARAN 2 Director Zoe Zarember 5
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Amy Nelder, Bourbon and Scotchmallow, 2023, acrylic on canvas, 12 x 12 in
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Amy Nelder, Double Trouble, 2023, acrylic on canvas, 16 x 16 in
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Amy Nelder, Lemon Twist, 2024, acrylic on canvas, 20 x 20 in
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Stephanie Serpick, Interior Visions #9, 2023, oil on panel 16 x 20 in
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Stephanie Serpick, Void of Modern Life #6, 2021, oil on panel 16 x 20 in
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Amy Nelder, First Kiss, 2024, acrylic on canvas, 16 x 16 in
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Amy Nelder, Perfecto with Limes in Crystal, 2024, acrylic on canvas, 24 x 24 in
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Stephanie Serpick, A New Fall #18, 2018, oil on panel 16 x 20 in
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Stephanie Serpick, A New Fall #17, 2018, oil on panel 20 x 24 in
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Amy Nelder, Sunday, 2024, acrylic on canvas, 48 x 48 in
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Amy Nelder, Not a Fragile Flower, 2022, acrylic on canvas, 36 x 36 in
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Stephanie Serpick, Void of Modern Life #9, 2021, oil on panel 16 x 20 in
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Stephanie Serpick, New to come, 2024, oil on panel 16 x 20 in
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Amy Nelder, Brown Bag Lunch, 2022, acrylic on canvas, 30 x 30 in
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Amy Nelder, Good Night in Red, 2024, acrylic on canvas, 48 x 48 in
Born in 1971 in San Francisco, painter Amy Nelder calls her work “Pop Trompe L’oeil.” Employing high realism infused with pop au courant imagery, she celebrates otherwise unsung domestic moments or conveys a message of dramatic, sometimes contemporary socio-political, import – but with a sense of lightness and often facetious. She paints beautiful imagery, but there is always a story to her painting. She seeks to convey the subtle but meaningful layers of simple human interaction, to impart appreciation of the joys, and ironies, of our lives. Nelder’s more recent still lifes have expanded into global commentary, including her Covid19Art, Bunnies and Guns, and Build-Your-Own Eden series on psychic autonomy. The message is important, but she is simultaneously concerned with precision of technique, accuracy of detail, and excellence of craftsmanship. Nelder studied at the University of California at Berkeley, as well as the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia. Early in her career, she was the Forensic Artist for the San Francisco Police Department, working primarily with survivors of violent crimes as well as creating facial reconstructions of decomposed or skeletonized remains for the Medical Examiner’s Office. Nelder now focuses entirely on her own fine art. A trained opera singer from ages 9 – 20, she notes the musicality in her paintings, that her way of feeling color is rhythmic and lyrical. She experiences a painting as a symphonic composition.
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Stephanie Serpick is a painter whose work explores themes of isolation, grief, and healing. Her work has been shown in various exhibitions in the U.S. and internationally, and she is a fellow at several residencies, most notably at MASS MoCA in North Adams, Massachusetts, The Saltonstall Foundation, The Florence Trust Studios in London, and the Vermont Studio Center, where she was awarded a full fellowship and stipend to attend. Most recently, she attended Cuttyhunk Island Artist Residency in Cuttyhunk, MA in 2022. Recent exhibitions include solo shows at the Buckham Gallery in Flint, MI, and Sweet Briar College, in 2023 and 2022, respectively, and a two-person exhibition at The Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute at the Museum of Art at Pratt in Utica NY. She was awarded a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant in 2020 and in 2018 she received the Ruth and Harold Chenven Foundation Grant. Stephanie received a BFA from Carnegie Mellon University and MFA from the University of Chicago.
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