BIO
Amélie Guthrie grew up in New Orleans before studying art history at Vanderbilt University. There began her passion for providing art education to those without access to it. She spent a decade teaching underserved and unhoused children, mainly in Buenos Aires, New York, and Nashville. She was also fortunate enough to work in different galleries and studios in London, New York, Rome, Los Angeles, and Nashville. Through these diverse and impactful experiences Amélie nurtured her own artistic voice. While living in NYC she showed and sold works, including commissioned installations. She later carried this passion to Rome where she worked for six months and showed a solo exhibition. Back in the States, Red Arrow Gallery represented and showed her work during her years in Nashville. Today, she lives in New Orleans where she continues to create.
STATEMENT
Earth is suffering, and she signals her slowing heartbeat. In response, I sculpt celebrations of nature to call on viewers to cherish and protect our home and her inhabitants. Through my sculpture, I beckon our human family to marvel at the resplendence of nature’s fractal systems, especially the ones found in tree architecture. My illumination of these repeated forms of the natural world is a plea for their preservation.
Since my oak-enchanted childhood in New Orleans, I’ve felt that trees connected me to God. Through symbolism and experience, I hear God’s voice through the branches, the roots. In reply, I sculpt fractal systems in reverent imitation of these forms, each sculpture like a prayer. Through these sculpted prayers, I express gratitude for the magnificence of trees, and I mourn what we’ve already lost.
However, not everyone sees trees in my art. Many identify other fractal forms like lightning or a river delta or the vascular system. I celebrate these diverse interpretations. It’s a reflection of the broader visual language present in my work: fractal systems.These are structures familiar to all of us. At this moment you have one firing in your brain and pulsing in your heart in the same design that the Nile flows over Africa and coral grows in the Great Barrier Reef. These repeating forms bind the Universe together. They are the veins of nature. Like silver blood of existence, my sculpture reminds you our environment is bleeding. It points you to nature’s majesty as well as the relationship of the veins in your arm to the veins in a leaf. Through this beauty and your elemental connection to it, I hope to galvanize your energies to bless and protect this splendid place called Earth.
Since my oak-enchanted childhood in New Orleans, I’ve felt that trees connected me to God. Through symbolism and experience, I hear God’s voice through the branches, the roots. In reply, I sculpt fractal systems in reverent imitation of these forms, each sculpture like a prayer. Through these sculpted prayers, I express gratitude for the magnificence of trees, and I mourn what we’ve already lost.
However, not everyone sees trees in my art. Many identify other fractal forms like lightning or a river delta or the vascular system. I celebrate these diverse interpretations. It’s a reflection of the broader visual language present in my work: fractal systems.These are structures familiar to all of us. At this moment you have one firing in your brain and pulsing in your heart in the same design that the Nile flows over Africa and coral grows in the Great Barrier Reef. These repeating forms bind the Universe together. They are the veins of nature. Like silver blood of existence, my sculpture reminds you our environment is bleeding. It points you to nature’s majesty as well as the relationship of the veins in your arm to the veins in a leaf. Through this beauty and your elemental connection to it, I hope to galvanize your energies to bless and protect this splendid place called Earth.
PRESS
"Metro Arts Nashville Local Art Acquisition" Nashville Arts Magazine
"International Women's Night" Adnkronos
"Literary Lights" Musing
"Trees of Life" Nashville Arts Magazine
"Creating the Un-Conference" Nashville Arts Magazine
"Tweet Exhibit" Children's Museum of the Arts, NYC
"Metro Arts Nashville Local Art Acquisition" Nashville Arts Magazine
"International Women's Night" Adnkronos
"Literary Lights" Musing
"Trees of Life" Nashville Arts Magazine
"Creating the Un-Conference" Nashville Arts Magazine
"Tweet Exhibit" Children's Museum of the Arts, NYC
