Amy Vensel

Amy Vensel is an American painter based in the desert borderlands of New Mexico. Her meticulous process involves the layering of acrylic polymer and pigment to create luminous paintings that echo the backlit screens of today’s digital landscape. Vensel’s work has been exhibited at White Columns (NY), New Britain Museum of American Art (CT), Mattatuck Musuem (CT), PARK (Netherlands), Trestle Gallery (NY), ESXLA (CA), Giampietro Gallery (CT), and The Painting Center (NY).

Vensel is a graduate of Syracuse University and studied at the Silvermine School of Art. She has been awarded residencies at the Millay Colony for the Arts, the Mark Rothko Art Centre, and the Vermont Studio Center. Vensel is the recipient of an Artist Resource Trust Fund Grant, the Harwood Art Center Surface Grant, and a Lancaster Museum and Public Art Foundation Award. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, been reviewed in Art New England, and is included in the book, “PARK 2016-2018,” published by The Platform for Visual Arts, the Netherlands.

Submitted by SHIM Art Network