Amy Friend

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Dare alla Luce

Amy Friend: And the Light Shines in Darkness; and Darkness Comprehended it Not

Amy Friend: Late Summer Evening, Ontario, 1927

Amy Friend: The Last Time I Was in Cape Breton

Amy Friend: What is done in the darkness will be brought to the light

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Amy Friend Bio

Awards
2010	Ontario Arts Council, Exhibition Assistance Grant, Ontario

2009	Ontario Arts Council, Emerging Artist Grant, Ontario, Canada

2008	Canada Council for the Arts, Travel Grant, Canada

2007	Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Scholarship, Canada

2005	Nalini and Tim Stewart Photography Award, Toronto

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Solo Exhibitions
2012	Dare alla Luce, Sean O’Sullivan Gallery, St. Catharines, ON

2011	Still Time, ACWR Gallery, Windsor, ON

2010	Agua De Noche, Galerie Joel Jover, Cuba

2010	Firmament, Ross Creek Centre for the Arts, Ross Creek, Nova Scotia

2009	Soon this space will be too small, University of Notre Dame (Riley Hall), Notre Dame, U.S.A

2009	Peak Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

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Group Exhibitions
2016	Black, White & Read, Center for Arts & Art History, Lewis-Clark State College, Lewiston, ID

2016	Pictura Gallery, Bloomington, IN

2016	Assorted Boxes of Ordinary Life curated by Marcie Bronson, Rodman Hall, Catharines, ON

2015	University of Tennessee, Concourse Gallery,, Knoxville, TN

2015	Strange Cities,, Onassis Cultural Center, Athens, Greece

2015	Under Astral Skies,, 555 Gallery, Boston, MA

2015	IDENTITÉ(S, Galerie Rivière Faiveley, Paris, France

2015	Athens Photography Festival, ReFrame Memory: Frames and Framing, Metamatic:taf, Athens, Greece

2015	The Curator, Foley Gallery, New York, NY

2015	DOT AIR Festival, Pawtucket, Rhode Island, NY

2015	The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO

2015	Size Matters, Low Gallery – Medium Festival of Photography, San Diego

2015	Black, White & Read, Cannon Gallery of Art, Western Oregon University, OR

2015	Seeing Connections, curated by Rebecca Senf Antigua, Guatephoto Festival, Guatemala

2014	How One Thing Leads to Another, Corden Potts Gallery, San Francisco

2014	How One Thing Leads to Another, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX

2014	Santandar Photography Festival, Spain

2014	UnBound, Candela Gallery, Richmond, VA

2014	Griffith Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA

2014	Merge, Castell Photography Gallery, Asheville, NC

2014	This May have Happened, David Weinberg Photography – Filter Photo Festival, Chicago, IL

2014	Reframe: An Exploration of Memory and Nostalgia, Curated by Alison Zavos, Jenna Garrett & Amanda Gorence, Photoville, Brooklyn, NY

2014	Image Constructed :: Constructed Image, Wellington B. Gray Gallery – East Carolina University, Greenville, NC

2014	In Missa Interfectionis, Stephen Romano Gallery, Brooklyn, New York

2014	Breaking Ground: Contemporary Photography, Andrews Gallery – College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia

2014	Cornu Copiae, Stephen Romano Gallery, Brooklyn, New York

2013	Into the Void, Toronto Image Works, Toronto, Ontario

2013	Galerie Rivière Faiveley,, Paris, France

2012	Change of Pace, Detroit Center For Contemporary Photography, Detroit, MI

2012	(Dés)Assemblages, Chip Chop Galerie, Paris, France

2011	Conjure the Ghost, Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, Alberta

2008	Flash Forward (Magenta Foundation), Lennox Contemporary, Toronto, Ontario

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Collections

Onassis Center, Athens, Greece

Candela Collection, USA

York University, Toronto, ON

McLaughlin College, York University, ON

W Hotel, USA

Edgewater Hotel, WI, USA

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Bibliography

Contemporary Portraits. N/A. Index Book, Barcelona, 2014

Creative Block. Danielle Krysa. Chronicle Books, 2014

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Education
2002 - 2006	York University, BFA honours

2006 - 2008	University of Windsor, MFA

2011	The Banff Centre, Creative Residency (Photography)

Amy Friend Statement

Artist Statement
In my work I gravitate towards ideas relating to time, memory, impermanence, and the fluctuations of life. I tend to employ materials and surroundings that are familiar to me using them as starting points for my investigations. These materials become the substance I use to inform the work I create.

In my use of the photographic medium, I am not specifically concerned with capturing a “concrete” reality. Instead, I aim to use photography as a medium that offers the possibility of exploring the relationship between what is visible and non-visible.

In the Dare alla Luce series, I initially responded to a collection of vintage photographs, retrieved from a variety of sources both personal and anonymous. Through hand-manipulated interventions I altered and subsequently re-photographed the images “re-making” photographs that oscillate between what is present and what is absent. I aim to comment on the fragile quality of the photographic object but also to the equal fragility of our lives, our history. All are lost so easily. By playing with the tools of photography, I “re-use” light by allowing it to shine through the holes in the images. In a somewhat playful and yet, literal manner I return the subject of the photographs back to the light, while simultaneously bringing them forward. The images are permanently altered; they are lost and reborn, hence the title, Dare alla Luce, an Italian term meaning, “to bring to the light” in reference to birth.

The photographs have new meaning, despite the mysteries they hold. The title of each piece is significant; some titles were taken directly from the notations found written on the photographs, yet those without any indication of provenance were titled to reference the nuances of photography as a medium.

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