Amy Abshier EVERYDAY MAGIC Solo Exhibition 2022 118 Southwest Blvd Kansas City, MO 64108 816.527.0823 BlueGalleryOnline.com
It’s an ordinary magic; something in you recognizes it but maybe you can’t articulate exactly what it is. It just speaks to you.
Amy Abshier was raised on the Texas Gulf Coast, in a small farming and ranching community. She moved to Kansas City, Missouri to attend classes at the Kansas City Art Institute, where she received her bachelor’s degree in fine art in 1997. Since then, Amy has exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions, and her work can be found in private and corporate collections nationwide.
There’s a sisterhood to this body of work; the subjects come from a place of contemplation and the awareness of what it means to be a woman, to be a strong and magical presence in this world.
Even though the figures are not kinetic, there is an energy they share that’s just below the surface, understated but there. It glimmers softly, waiting for the right person to walk up and see it there.
EVERYDAY MAGIC
Amy Abshier currently lives and works in Kansas City, MO.
As a painter there are times when I’m working, perfectly at peace and almost outside myself, and then everything seems to fall into place effortlessly, like the painting is just creating itself. It’s magic happening, it must be.
Amy Abshier (American, b. 1974)
Amy Abshier EVERYDAY MAGIC Opening Reception + Artist’s Talk Thursday, September 1, 2022 6–8 pm Artist’s talk begins at 7 pm First Friday, September 2, 11–7 pm artist will be in attendance both nights exhibition runs through October 1, 2022
A Half-Forgotten Dream of October oil on canvas 49” x 37” fr. $4750
A Vision of Another Self oil on canvas 49” x 37” fr. $3650
The Black Rabbit oil on canvas 41.25” x 37.25” fr. $3650
I Will Not Fade Away, I Will not Disappear oil on $315049.25”canvasx37.25”
Stella Polaris oil on canvas 37.5” x 49.25” fr. $3150
There’s Nothing Real in this Garden oil on canvas 41” x 31” fr. $3150
Malapert oil on canvas 22” x 26” fr. NFS
Caught at Daydreaming oil on canvas 25.5” x 19.5” fr. $1400
My Art Crush oil on canvas 25.5” x 25.5” fr. $1400
She Was Wearing Red Shoes oil on canvas 25.5” x 19.5” fr. $1300
I’ll Preserve Your Memory oil on 22.25”canvasx18.25” fr. $1200
Rosemordris oil on canvas 25.5” x 19.5” fr. $1000
Your Hair Shan’t Curl, and Your Shoes Shan’t Shine oil on canvas 21.5” x 17.5” fr. $950
A Reconstruction of My Dream House oil on canvas 22.5” x 18.5” fr. $900
Ensconced oil on 22.25”canvasx18.25” fr. $900
I Folded the Space Around Me oil on canvas 21.5” x 17.5” fr. $900
The Third Room oil on 22.25”canvasx18.25” fr. $850
Do No Harm, But Take No Shit oil on canvas 13.5” x 10.5” fr. $800
The Visions of Evangeline oil on canvas 15.25” x 12.25” fr. $800
Wanderment oil on canvas 20” x 16” $800
Same As It Ever Was oil on canvas 18.5” x 15.5” fr. $750
Exploration oil on canvas 13.5” x 13.5” fr. $650
Overrun with Glitter oil on canvas 14.25” x 11.25” fr. $650
Dreamworld oil on panel 8.5” x 8.5” fr. $550
Easterly oil on panel 7.5” x 9.5” fr. $550
Full of Ghosts oil on panel 7” x $5005”
Halcyon oil on panel 9.75” x 7.75” fr. $500
Watchful oil on panel 9.5” x 7.5” fr. $500
Miranda oil on canvas on panel 10” x 9” fr. $450
Fortitude oil on panel 13.5” x 12.5” fr. $400
Blue Sky Mine oil on canvas 9.5” x 8.5” fr. $350
I am an illustrator and fine artist interested in pop culture, folk and fairy tales, costuming, and relationships. I’ve worked on a large variety of projects ranging from editorial illustrations and children’s book illustrations to commissioned paintings and gallery exhibitions. My work is stylized, narrative, and compelling.
BIO Amy Abshier was raised on the Texas Gulf Coast, in a small farming and ranching community. She moved to Kansas City, Missouri to attend classes at the Kansas City Art Institute, where she received her bachelor’s degree in fine art in 1997. She relocated to Ventura, California in 2001 and moved back to Kansas City in the spring of 2005.
“Most of my works are painted as a mimicry of traditional portraiture, but are (as I see them) vehicles to another concept entirely. Almost all of them have a very tongue-in-cheek wryness about them as I explore themes ranging from self-image issues to historical oddities to the dissection of fairy tales and popular culture. They differ in emotion; some are just silly, while others are plainly macabre, but they are all simple illustrations to the subtle narratives
underneath.” PROFILE
EDUCATION Bachelor of Fine Arts 1997 Kansas City Art Institute Kansas City, Missouri Studied illustration and painting PUBLISHED ILLUSTRATION WORK The Four Ugly Cats in Apartment 3D, Aladdin Paperbacks (Simon and Schuster), 2003 The Baffler, issues #14 and #15 2002 The Adventures of Erasmus Twiddle, Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2001 ARTICLES AND REVIEWS Ventura Life and Style “Painting on the Double: Uncanny Oils by Amy Abshier” Spring 2004 Ventura County Star Art Scene “Incredible Incidentals” January 23, 2003 Ongoing Representation October 2005--Present Blue Gallery, Kansas City
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