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Amy Cohen Banker has a "painterly",
colorful/colorless style that carves out shapes and
forms (synthetic realism). Life is reconstructed as
reality and imagination is processed to become a portrait
and landscape as layers upon layers of meaning are revealed
and or concealed as the viewer sees new objects take
shape on the oil/acrylic/crayons on canvas. Process,
time, lyrical movements, sumi-e, palimpsests are revealed
and articulated, inspired by moments from nature, music
and poetry. She is always thinking of "metaphor".
A native New Yorker, Amy resides in New
York City and Massachusetts.
She collaborates and exhibits in multimedia and fine
art projects, local and
worldwide, including the Smithsonian, MOMA, Whitney,
Hermitage and the Chelsea Art Museum. A Cornell University
graduate, she studied design, art and business. Banker
was an art instructor at the MOMA. She is an award winning
artist at the Art Student League of NY.
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