LALA Artist Talk with Amy Haney

Artist Talk: Featured artist Amy Haney

May 7 | 5:30 PM to 6:30 PM | The Dock at Millwork Commons

Join us for a evening at The Dock with artist Amy Haney, whose solo show is currently on view at Millwork Commons in the LALA Gallery. The exhibition features the series, War Birds. After soaking in the art, join us for a beer or cold beverage (on us!) at Kros Strain Brewery.

This event is presented by LALA: Local Artist Local Art, whose mission is to build a more diverse, resilient, and thriving arts sector in Omaha.

Find out more about the venue and accessibility needs by visiting the Millwork Commons website.

About the Exhibition:

Printmaking is a process in which a drawing is created on a matrix. The matrix could
range in materials such as wood, stone, or metal. Using a printing press, the matrix is
repeatedly passed through under great pressure to create multiple original prints.

Printmaking involves complicated pre-planning, problem solving, and a meditative
repetition that I find enjoyable. The steps taken to create every individual print involves
methodical and efficient procedures to develop a cohesive edition of images and ideas.
My meditative process is experienced in the rhythm of the carving, inking, and printing. I
become immersed in the movements, and all thoughts and distractions fall to the
wayside.

I find birds to be an interesting subject matter, we have connections to them in nature,
as icons, or perhaps spiritually. They are adaptable, clever, and powerful yet vulnerable.
I explore bird’s postures, gestures, and personalities through printmaking. This War
Birds series has been a way for me to reflect on confrontation and destruction. I explore
how narratives can change when a bird replaces a human. I think about what it means
to be violent or actively aggressive and ask my viewer to question what they are seeing
while presenting conflict from a neutral stance.

About Amy:

Amy Haney is an artist and educator in Omaha, Nebraska. Her mediums of choice are
printmaking and watercolor. She is a Lecturer at the University of Nebraska at Omaha
and has taught for Kent Bellows Studio, the Joslyn, MCC, and Creighton. Amy holds a
BFA from Ringling College of Art in Florida, MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute,
and a MA Art History degree from Prescott College in Arizona. All degrees are
specifically focused on printmaking, because honestly, it’s the best of all artforms.
Her work can be found in private collections in the San Francisco Bay Area, New Yorks
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Microsoft Corporation, and the University of Wyoming Art
Museum. Her illustrations have been published in a handful of Chronicle Books, and
she has attended artist residencies in Italy and Ireland. If you’d like to see more of her
work, you can find her at Hot Shops Art Center and she’s represented by Anderson
O’Brien Fine Art.

WEBSITE: www.amyhaney.com

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