Bound

Amanda Greive (Born 1978)

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Amanda Greive

(Born 1978)

Bound

Oil on panel

7 x 5 inches

Framed dimensions:
8.5 x 6.5 inches

Signed

Provenance

Amanda Greive
Rehs Contemporary Galleries, Inc., New York City

Notes

I created "Bound" with the intention of conveying the idea that while, as parents, we have a way that we want our children's future to play out, it doesn't always end up how we envision it. Are our children bound for the future that we want for them? Are they bound TO it? In the painting, the plastic egg--my daughter's future, her legacy--is tightly bound in her braids. So much so, that the egg is nearly being squeezed out and locks of hair are poking out of the braid. The material elements of the piece are in primary colors--her sweater, the egg, and her ribbon--to symbolize the foundational quality of the decisions that I make for her in her childhood. I look at this piece as a metaphor for the decisions I consciously, or unconsciously, make to help her live her life to the fullest potential on her terms.

BIOGRAPHY

Amanda Greive graduated with a bachelor’s degree in visual arts from the University of Illinois at Springfield in 2008 and has exhibited her work both locally and nationally. She was also a juried member of the Chicago Artist’s Coalition’s HATCH project for 2011-12. Most recently, she was a finalist in the 2017 FIgurativas exhibit in Barcelona, and a Rehs Contemporary Award winner in the 13^th ARC International Salon. Her studio is located in Central Illinois.

Amanda’s hyper-realistic compositions reference both classical and contemporary symbolism and iconography. While the primary motivation behind her work is to tease out the nuanced emotions embedded within the human condition and to confront isolation and anxiety born of gender-based stereotypes, she also looks to comment on the contradiction between creating realistic imagery and portraying emotional rawness, as well as the uncompromised truth in the imagery portrayed versus it’s symbolic ambiguity. Amanda’s most recent work includes paintings of women in a variety of positions with flowers coming out of their backs, balancing on their foreheads, or covering their faces. She aims to address the emotional and societal pressure to conform to a certain ideal that women face, as well as her interest in the symbolic duality of flowers as fragile, beautiful and sexual but also strong, persistent and adaptable.

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