Amy Conger
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Amy has been an active artist for over 25 years, working in a variety of media from photography to encaustic, watercolor to screenprinting and collage.
Amy’s encaustic paintings are created by layering fields of color, organic mark making, and a mix of mechanical geometric shapes and organic forms under a smooth surface of wax. Her subjects are often abstracted landscapes and figures with in the landscape.
Amy Conger
Visual Artist
Work
Series
Small Storms
This series of small pieces was created using collage as the primary medium. It explores texture, color, and the abstract forms that emerge from fluid media.
New Islands
Nations are creating new islands almost as fast as we are losing them due to climate change. This series of alcohol ink, watercolor and collage explores what makes islands special and how we place value on land—new and old.
Terra Invisibilia
This series is explores humanity’s impact on the landscape and the land’s impact on us. These paintings were created with hot wax (encaustic), screenprinting, and photography.
Encaustic Mixed Media
Abstracted landscapes and figures emerge from fields of color and mechanical and organic marks, all sealed beneath a smooth surface of wax. Partially obscured layers hint at each piece’s history, creating a sense of depth behind the primary forms.
Work
Featured Work
These paintings explore the impact of a piece’s history that emerges from many, layers of mixed media under wax.
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Encaustic on Cradled Board
16″ x 16″
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Encaustic on Cradled Board
10″ x 10″
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Encaustic on Cradled Board
10″ x 10″
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Encaustic on Cradled Board
10″ x 10″
Untitled
Encaustic on Cradled Board
16″ x 16″
Untitled
Encaustic on Cradled Board
10″ x 10″
Experience
Amy holds a bachelor degree in fine arts with an emphasis in photography and digital design. Her masters degree is in art education. Professionally, she has been an architectural photographer, fine art landscape photographer, taught media arts to adolescents, and shows at local group shows and open studios. Outside of the arts, she works in instructional design, which blends visual communication and media production with technology, strategy, and education.
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