AMANDA TRIPLETT
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About Amanda

Artist Statement
Making art in the space where fine art and craftwork intersect, I manipulate, layer, and embroider salvaged fibers into abstractions of biology. I create sculptural, performance, and installation works about human relationships to biological narratives. 

Recycled materials are central to my process and inform the themes I work with as an artist. I disassemble salvaged towels, sweaters, and t-shirts that have warmed and wiped the bodies of their previous owners. Fascinated by wear on the weave of recycled fibers, I treat aging and deterioration as a part of the creative process. Using needle and thread, I manipulate and sew the fiber into new form. Making becomes a mending practice, a way to rework and renew ubiquitous materials into something unique and beautiful. The resulting pieces are organic and biologically inspired, utilizing the natural tendency of fabric to crease and flow. Utilizing surface, texture and vivid colors as my main tools, the work addresses ecology, the complexity of the internal human landscape, and identity.
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CV
Education
2004        Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY,  BA in Art
2011-13   Cabrillo College, Sculpture Studies

Residencies and Awards 

2020     2020 Betty Brose and Margaret Hogg Art About Agriculture Purchase Awards
2016      Glean Residency, PDX Transfer Station, Portland, OR
2018      Float On Artist Program, Portland, OR

Solo and Two-person exhibitions

2020      Earthen Body, Auburn Art on Main. Auburn, WA
2020      Fix my face, Live Streamed Performance, Online Facebook
2019       Body Is, 1122 Gallery, Portland, Oregon
2019       Biological Dissonance, Chehalem Cultural Center, Newberg, Oregon
2019       Residual Membranes, Paragon Art Gallery, Portland, Oregon
2017       Specimen, The Tiny Llama, Portland, Oregon
2017       Embodiment,  Umpqua Community College Gallery. Roseburg, OR
2017       Bodily Remnants, Multnomah Arts Gallery. Portland, OR
2016       Fibrous Body, Spaceworks Tacoma. Tacoma, WA
2016       Scrap Gallery. Portland, OR
2010       Being, Asana Teas. Santa Cruz, CA
2009      Visioning Precious, Café Pergolesi. Santa Cruz, CA

Select Group Exhibitions

2020     Tension/Harmony, Giustina Gallery, Corvallis, OR
2020      Art makes History, Museum of the Oregon Territory, Oregon City, OR
2019       Environment/Structure, Bush Barn Art Center, Salem, OR
2019       An Artistic Heritage, Lake Oswego Arts Festival, Lake Oswego, OR
2019       Splendid Ambiguity, Gretchen Schuette Gallery, Chemeteka College Salem, OR
2019       Vagina Interrupted, Milepost 5, Portland, Oregon
2018       Can Touch This, Paragon Gallery, Portland Oregon
2018       So Sew Show, The Vestibule, Seattle, WA
2017       December Group Exhibit, Basic Space, Portland, OR
2017       Connected Threads, Sherwood Center for the Arts. Sherwood, OR
2017       Born Again: The Recycle Show, Splendorporium. Portland, OR
2017       Make America Create Again, COCA. Seattle, WA
2017       PSA: Provides Support Through Art, Ford Gallery. Portland, OR
2016       Glean, Bison Building. Portland, OR
2016       3rd Annual Abstract Sanctuary, Verum Ultimum Gallery. Portland, OR
2015       XX XY, Confluence Gallery. Twisp, WA
2013       9 Cycles of Creation, Pop up Gallery. Santa Cruz, CA
2013       Hark, Kaleid. San Jose, CA
2011       Multiples: Variations on a Theme, Pajaro Valley Arts Council Gallery. Watsonville, CA
2011       Art on Emeline, Emeline Art Bazaar. Santa Cruz, CA
2011       Urban Arts: A Very Fine Line, Pajaro Valley Arts Council Gallery. Watsonville, CA
2010       Postcard Show 14, The Lab. San Francisco, CA 
2010       The More the Merrier, Art Ark Gallery. San Jose, CA 
2010       Visual Aid, SOMArts. San Francisco, CA
2010       Recycle, Reuse, Recreate, Pajaro Valley Arts Council Gallery. Watsonville, CA

Public Commissions

2020     Earthen Body, Auburn Art on Main. Auburn, WA
2016      Fibrous Body, Spaceworks Tacoma. Tacoma, WA

Art Fairs and Open Studios

2019    Portland Open Studios Art Tour 2019. Portland, OR
2019    stART up art Fair LA. Los Angeles, CA
2018    Portland Open Studios Art Tour 2018. Portland, Oregon
2017    Portland Open Studios Art Tour 2017. Portland, Oregon
2011     Art on Emeline, Emeline Art Bazaar. Santa Cruz, CA
2008   Sub Zero Festival. San Jose, CA

Notable Collections

OSU Art about Agriculture Permanent Collection, Corvallis, OR
Seattle City Arts, Seattle, WA
Recology, Portland, OR
Float On, Portland, OR

Bibliography

Friderike Heuer, Our Place in the Fabric of the World, Oregon Arts Watch, 2/03/2020 https://www.orartswatch.org/our-place-in-the-fabric-of-the-world/

Friderike Heuer,
New Art territory in Oregon City, Oregon Arts Watch, 1/14/2020 https://www.orartswatch.org/new-art-territory-in-oregon-city/

Martha
Daghlian, VizArts Monthly: Antidotes for Anxiety, Oregon Arts Watch, 11/06/2019

https://www.orartswatch.org/vizarts-monthly-antidotes-for-anxiety/

David Bates,
Envisioning the human body- and life itself, Oregon Arts Watch, 07/16/2019

https://www.orartswatch.org/envisioning-the-human-body-and…/

Katy San Roman, Residual Membranes: Artist Amanda Triplett Exhibit at Cascade Paragon Gallery. The Bridge, 2/5/2019 
https://pccbridge.com/index.php/2019/02/05/residual-membranes-artist-amanda-triplett-exhibit-at-cascade-paragon-gallery/

Jeff Jahn,
January Roundup. Portlandart.net, 1/13/2019
http://www.portlandart.net/archives/2019/01/january_review.html


B. Del Rio, The vagina, reinterpreted by different Instagram artists, 08/01/2018

https://preen.inquirer.net/79891/vagina-reinterpreted-different-instagram-artist

Ted Perkins, Neighborhood Artists glean a show in Kerns.The Hollywood Star News, 08/03/2016https://star-news.info/2016/08/03/neighborhood-artists-glean-a-show-in-kerns/


    





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  • VIDEO/Installation and Performance
  • Specimen
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  • Commissions
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  • Artist Statement and CV