A proposito di Amadi.

Amadi Greenstein è un'artista tessile appassionata, che attualmente vive nella Bay Area di San Francisco. Crea pezzi originali di opere tessili che narrano storie delle sue esperienze private come ricordi personali, identità culturali, insieme a scoperte di narrazioni da altre identità . La tessitura è la pratica principale che usa per raccontare le sue storie. Ad Amadi piace usare materiali trovati e pellicole trasparenti nel suo lavoro con combinazioni di motivi e texture in ogni pezzo di tessuto ..
Artist Statement.
Textiles encompass life through the sentimental value of memories, materials, and evolves our ways of living. They sustain us from the moment we are born to the time of death, and our remaining cloth becomes memories of our existence. Amadi’s textile work illustrates and explores her dreams, psychological theories, and personal narratives. She weaves experimentally with conventional and unconventional materials of transparency film, found x-rays, along with natural and synthetic fibers to convey impressions of nostalgia through light, pattern, and texture.
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Amadi connects her narratives from notions of grief, serenity, comfort, and remembrance in her process of making. Consequently, she unfolds uncertainties about her cultural and religious identities during her upbringing as an adopted child. Perceptions of disarray and isolation arise in areas of Amadi’s textiles. In the methodology of her expressive practice, weaving performs as a health-giving, restorative experience, and uses ideologies of mindfulness. These methods create a strong mental understanding between the mind and body. Along with this, she philosophically challenges the Sublime by intertwining psychological and physiological sensations, from the use of color and texture. Amadi focuses to apply these tactile details in her textiles to abstractly communicate the narratives and emotions that connects to the ideology of her work.
Artist CV.
Formazione scolastica
2019 BFA with Distinction, Textiles with Minor in Visual Studies,
California College of the Arts, Oakland, California
Mostre
Mostra personale 2019, Silenzio appartato, Oliver Art Center Gallery, Oakland, California
Mostra collettiva 2020, The Next Generation, Healdsburg Center for. the Arts, Healdsburg, California
Mostra virtuale di gruppo 2020, This Is A Movement, Not A Moment, ARTivism Initiative, Massachusetts
Mostra virtuale di gruppo 2020, The Sight, Alternative Gallery Space
Progetti collaborativi
2020 Black Lives Matter Posters, San Francisco, CA (in collaborazione con MUSA)
Premi
Esperienza collegata
Amanda Riggle, Pomona Valley Review, numero 14, 3 agosto 2020, p. 25,32,70
Diane Chen, Our Youth Today, numero 1, 7 novembre 2020, pag. 32,33
Libbie Phan, Humankind Zine, numero 2, 28 novembre 2020, p. 52, 53
2019 Assistente di Textiles Studio, California College of the Arts, Oakland, California
2019 Stage di sviluppo artistico, Palacio Inc. (Canvia), Silicon Valley, CA
