Amanda Browder

Amanda Browder (born 1976 in Missoula, MT) is an American installation artist known for her large-scale fabric installations on building exteriors and other public sites. Her work incorporates donated materials and local volunteers, creating site-specific art.[1] She is the recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, and Transformation Fellowship from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV).

Amanda Browder
Amanda Browder, 2019
Born
Missoula, Montana
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison
Known forinstallation art
Websiteamandabrowder.com

Biography

Browder was raised in Montana.[2] She began sewing when she was in third grade, starting her interest in fabric.[3] Browder received an MFA/MA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and has taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.[4] She is based in Brooklyn, New York.[5]

Career

Browder produces large-scale fabric installations for building exteriors and other public sites.[5] Browder was part of the show, "Hubris," at the Hyde Park Art Center in 2004.[6] In 2005, she, Duncan MacKenzie and Richard Holland founded the "Bad at Sports" podcast which covers local arts scenes.[7] Browder has collaborated with Chief Curator of the Art Gallery of Mississauga Stuart Keeler on several projects between 2006 and 2008 as the collective known as Career Day.[8][9]

In 2010, Browder gave a presentation at the Winkelman Gallery in Chelsea for the "#class" exhibition.[10] Also in 2010, she worked on a collaborative public art piece with the North Brooklyn Public Art Coalition.[2] The project was called "Future Phenomenon" and encouraged Brooklyn residents to work together on a large-scale sewing project.[11]

Browder exhibited one work at the 2012 Arts@Renaissance event in Greenpoint, Brooklyn;[12] one work at the 2012 Dumbo Arts Festival in Brooklyn;[13][14] one work at the New Museum's Ideas City Festival;[15] and a project at the 2013 FAB Fest in New York City.[16] Browder participated in the annual Bushwick Open Studios event in 2013.[17] Browder also showed one work at a Kickstarter party in Greenpoint, Brooklyn celebrating the 2014 opening of a new company building.[18]

Browder has also exhibited at the University of Alabama at Birmingham AAHD, Birmingham, AL;[19] Nuit Blanche Public Art Festival/LEITMOTIF in Toronto; Mobinale, Prague; Allegra LaViola Gallery, NYC; Nakaochiai Gallery, Tokyo; White Columns, NYC; No Longer Empty, Brooklyn.[20] Browder's first large-scale computer-generated digital patterning debut will be her project 'At Night We Light Up for the Indianapolis Power & Light Building, unveiling June 30, 2016 and shown August 26 and 27 as part of a free interactive light festival hosted by the Central Indiana Community Foundation.[21][22]

In 2016, she received her first National Endowment for the Arts grant to work with the Albright Knox Museum to cover the Buffalo Public Library.[23] In 2016, she sheathed three historic buildings in Buffalo using hundreds of yards of donated fabric.[3][24][25] The three buildings include 950 Broadway, the former Richmond Methodist Episcopal Church at Richmond Avenue and West Ferry Street and Albright-Knox’s Clifton Hall. The pieces were created from fabric collected and donated from all over the Buffalo area, sewn together by a collection of community volunteers.[24]

In April 2019 Browder installed "The Land of Hidden Gems" as the inaugural UNLV Transformation Fellow.[26] In June 2019 Browder installed "City of Threads" at the Arlington Arts Center in Arlington, Virginia.[1] In September 2019 she installed "Kaleidoscopic" in ArtPrize's "Project 1" in Grand Rapids, Michigan. It included draping a community center building, and covering four sky walks located in downtown Grand Rapids.[27]

References
  1. "Gallery Experience: Sewing with Amanda Browder". Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian. Retrieved 16 June 2019.
  2. Lazarowitz, Elizabeth (13 April 2010). "Arty Sew & Sews Dress Up Bldg". NY Daily News. Retrieved 17 June 2016.
  3. Dabkowski, Colin (6 April 2016). "Public Art Project Will Dress Three Buffalo Buildings in Fabric". Buffalo News. Retrieved 17 June 2016 – via EBSCO.
  4. "Amanda Browder - ArtFile Magazine". www.artfilemagazine.com. Retrieved 2018-03-03.
  5. "Amanda Browder to Cover Birmingham Buildings in Rainbow Fabric - In the Air - BLOUIN ARTINFO Blogs". blogs.artinfo.com. Archived from the original on 2016-06-24. Retrieved 2016-06-15.
  6. Hawkins, Margaret (4 June 2004). "Gallery Glance". Chicago Sun Times. Archived from the original on 11 September 2016. Retrieved 17 June 2016 – via HighBeam Research.
  7. Waxman, Lori (4 September 2015). "'Bad at Sports' Makes Art Make Sense, at Ground Level". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 17 June 2016.
  8. "Daily Constitutional, Issue 1, Art, Table of Contents, Sculpture, Painting, Writing, Installation, Sound, Video, Drawing, Etc." www.dailyconstitutional.org. Retrieved 2018-03-03.
  9. Browder, Amanda. "Collaborative Bio". www.amandabrowder.com. Amanda Browder. Retrieved 15 June 2016.
  10. Cotter, Holland. "#class". The New York Times. The New York Times. Retrieved 16 June 2016.
  11. Leighton, Kyle (4 May 2010). "Greenpoint's Next Façade". The Brooklyn Rail. Retrieved 17 June 2016.
  12. Mills, Jennifer. "A Look Inside Greenpoint's Arts@Renaissance Space". The L Magazine. The L Magazine. Retrieved 15 June 2016.
  13. Nunez, Joann Kim. "Dumbo Arts Festival: A Recap". Hyperallergic. Hyperallergic. Retrieved 16 June 2016.
  14. "Dumbo Arts Festival 2012". Dumbo Arts Festival. Dumbo Arts Festival. Archived from the original on 2014-02-09. Retrieved 16 June 2016.
  15. "SUSTAIN: Steering Urban Sustainability Through Action, Innovation, & Networks". www.newmuseum.org. Retrieved 2016-06-24.
  16. "Solar Off the Roof at the New Museum's IDEAS CITY StreetFest - Solar One". www.solar1.org. Archived from the original on 2016-09-20. Retrieved 2016-06-24.
  17. Trebay, Guy (5 June 2013). "Ambling Through Bushwick Open Studios". The New York Times. The New York Times. Retrieved 15 June 2016.
  18. Lynch, Scott. "Photos: Kickstarter's Greenpoint Block Party". Gothamist. Gothamist. Archived from the original on 8 May 2015. Retrieved 15 June 2016.
  19. "Community sewing days: UAB presents fabric artist Amanda Browder". Create Birmingham: Birmingham 365. Archived from the original on 14 August 2016. Retrieved 8 July 2016.
  20. "No Longer Empty Exhibition". The Invisible Dog Gallery. Archived from the original on 18 August 2016. Retrieved 8 July 2016.
  21. Staff. "Indiana Community Foundation to hold light festival". WISH TV. Retrieved 8 July 2016.
  22. Fischer, Jordan. "WATCH: Indy Foundation hosts colorful light show downtown". WRTV-Online. WRTV. Retrieved 8 July 2016.
  23. "Amanda Browder - ArtFile Magazine". www.artfilemagazine.com. Retrieved 2018-03-03.
  24. Dabkowski, Colin. "Public art project transforms three Buffalo buildings". The Buffalo News. Retrieved 18 August 2016.
  25. Smith, Brett. "CAN'T MISS: SPECTRAL LOCUS ART INSTALLATION". Step Out Buffalo. Retrieved 18 August 2016.
  26. Vaughan, Jennifer (20 March 2019). "Art Department Unveils Transformation Fellow Amanda Browder's Installation April 2-12". UW/ART. Retrieved 16 June 2019.
  27. "Amanda Browder". Project 1 by ArtPrize. Retrieved 26 September 2019.
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