Here is the Amy E. Fraser Artist Biography from 2010:
AMY E. FRASER
FINE ARTIST: Acrylic Painter and Polymer Jewelry Sculptor
Born in Lebanon, NH,
1973, Amy E. Fraser came into this world knowing that she was an Artist. Before
she could talk or walk she was creating art. Her entire childhood is chronicled
by which drawing, painting, sculpture, sewing or photography project she was
working on at the time. While she briefly entertained fantasies about becoming
a ballerina, a veterinarian and a super model, there was never any real
question about her true identity and destiny as an Artist.
At age 14, Amy enrolled in her first
college level art course at Vermont Community College. In high school, she
consumed every available art class, from drafting to photography and everything
in-between, including turning all of her *serious* classes into opportunities
for more art. Also, enrolling in various summer art courses through out the
Upper Valley, with a temporary focus on interior design, she expanded upon her
high school art education. However, she soon discovered the amount of math
involved in interior design and quickly changed her career focus. After
graduating from Lebanon High School in 1991, she spent a summer in New York
City attending Parsons School of Design, then took the following year off to
work and continued on to Parsons where she obtained her Batchelor Degree in
Fine Arts in 1997. After which, Amy returned home to NH to obtain her Masters
Degree in Liberal Studies from Dartmouth College in 2000.
Since graduating
from Dartmouth, Amy E. Fraser has had a number of solo exhibitions, including:
“CONFRONTING FEMININITY” at Gallery Alexie, in NYC in 2001, “CELEBRATING
WOMANHOOD,” at Dartmouth Hitchcock’s Women’s Health Resource Center in Lebanon,
NH, in 2003 and “WILDFLOWER MEADOW” at AVA Gallery, in Lebanon, NH in 2009. She
has had additional solo exhibitions in alternative art spaces including “THE
FLORAL COLLECTION” at The Ranch in Lebanon, NH, 2006-8, and “THE WILDFLOWER
COLLECTION” at The Razzberry Kiss in Hanover, NH, 2006-7. Amy has also
participated in a wide variety of group exhibitions in galleries across New York,
New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Vermont and New Hampshire since 2002, as an
individual artist and as an active member of The National Association of Women
Artists.
Amy E. Fraser’s work
is currently represented by NURTUREart Gallery (NYC), Artists Space Gallery
(NYC), the N.A.W.A. Fifth Avenue Gallery (NYC), AVA Gallery and Art Center
(Lebanon, NH) and was previously represented by Gallery Alexie, Stephen Gang
Galleries, Inc (NYC). She is an elected artist member of The National
Association Of Women Artists, Inc. (NYC) as well as an artist member of The
National Museum of Women in the Arts (Washington, D.C.). Amy received the
Beatrice Jackson Memorial Award in 2004 (N.A.W.A.) and was awarded the Alumni
Council of the Master of Arts and Liberal Studies Program Grant by Dartmouth
College in 2000. Amy’s award winning painting “Expectations” was archived at
the Smithsonian, Archives of American Art (Washington, D.C.) in 2005.
Portfolios of her work have been preserved in The National Museum Of Women In
The Arts (Washington, D.C.) and MAKE, The Organization For Women In The Arts (London,
England), available for public viewing since 2002.
Amy’s paintings
and writing have been published in “Spiral Dance News, Unfolding The Femi9
Woman” in 2004, “Her Living Mosaic” in 2003, The MALS Quarterly (Dartmouth
College) in 2001, and in her Dartmouth College Thesis entitled “Dissecting The
Western Woman Artist: An Artist’s Dialogue” in 2000. Since 2006 Amy’s line of
one of a kind hand sculpted polymer jewelry, The Exalted Beauty Medallions have
been published in “Jewelry Crafts Magazine”, “Bead Arts”, “Jewelryzine”, “Daily
Art Muse”, “Polymer Clay Notes” and “Bell Armoire” Magazine. Amy has participated
in a number of collaborative jewelry efforts, including designs with Miachelle
DePiano from Cosmopolitan Accessories and Cyndi Lavin from Mazel Tov! Jewelry
Treasures. Over 2,000 of Amy’s Exalted Beauty Medallions have been sold on-line,
at private parties, at upscale jewelry retailers and art galleries such as Fine
Facets (San Francisco, CA), AVA Gallery and Art Center (Lebanon NH), Wolfeboro
Casuals (Wolfeboro, NH) and The Razzberry Kiss (Hanover, NH).
Amy E. Fraser is blissfully
married to Jody Perkins, and the proud mother of a very wild (but extremely
charming) 6 year-old son, Caden. She and her husband recently built their home
on a beautiful mountainside in Meriden, NH, where, before even unpacking, her
first act of nesting was to plant an enormous wildflower meadow which she
continues to expand upon each spring. Moving back to the country has ignited
Amy’s interest in floral/botanical painting. Especially now that the view from
her light filled studio is of the long meandering stone path she built in the
meadow, with a stunning backdrop of Mount Ascutney. Amy’s artwork expresses her
passion for flowers, nature and life through color, line and texture.
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| Amy, Jody and Caden at Amy's Wildflower Meadow Exhibition 2009 |
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