Amanda Browder | |
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| Amanda Browder, 2019 | |
| Born | Missoula, Montana |
| Alma mater | University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| Known for | installation art |
| Website | amandabrowder |
Amanda Browder (born 1976 in Missoula, MT) is an American installation artist known for her large-scale fabric installations on building exteriors and other public sites. Her work incorporates donated materials and local volunteers, creating site-specific art. [1] She is the recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, and Transformation Fellowship from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV).
Browder was raised in Montana. [2] She began sewing when she was in third grade, starting her interest in fabric. [3] Browder received an MFA/MA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and has taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. [4] She is based in Brooklyn, New York. [5]
Browder produces large-scale fabric installations for building exteriors and other public sites. [5] Browder was part of the show, "Hubris," at the Hyde Park Art Center in 2004. [6] In 2005, she, Duncan MacKenzie and Richard Holland founded the "Bad at Sports" podcast which covers local arts scenes. [7] Browder has collaborated with Chief Curator of the Art Gallery of Mississauga Stuart Keeler on several projects between 2006 and 2008 as the collective known as Career Day. [8] [9]
In 2010, Browder gave a presentation at the Winkelman Gallery in Chelsea for the "#class" exhibition. [10] Also in 2010, she worked on a collaborative public art piece with the North Brooklyn Public Art Coalition. [2] The project was called "Future Phenomenon" and encouraged Brooklyn residents to work together on a large-scale sewing project. [11]
Browder exhibited one work at the 2012 Arts@Renaissance event in Greenpoint, Brooklyn; [12] one work at the 2012 Dumbo Arts Festival in Brooklyn; [13] [14] one work at the New Museum's Ideas City Festival; [15] and a project at the 2013 FAB Fest in New York City. [16] Browder participated in the annual Bushwick Open Studios event in 2013. [17] Browder also showed one work at a Kickstarter party in Greenpoint, Brooklyn celebrating the 2014 opening of a new company building. [18]
Browder has also exhibited at the University of Alabama at Birmingham AAHD, Birmingham, AL; [19] Nuit Blanche Public Art Festival/LEITMOTIF in Toronto; Mobinale, Prague; Allegra LaViola Gallery, NYC; Nakaochiai Gallery, Tokyo; White Columns, NYC; No Longer Empty, Brooklyn. [20] Browder's first large-scale computer-generated digital patterning debut was her project 'At Night We Light Up for the Indianapolis Power & Light Building, unveiled on June 30, 2016, and shown August 26 and 27 as part of a free interactive light festival hosted by the Central Indiana Community Foundation. [21] [22]
In 2016, she received her first National Endowment for the Arts grant to work with the Albright Knox Museum to cover the Buffalo Public Library. [4] In 2016, she sheathed three historic buildings in Buffalo using hundreds of yards of donated fabric. [3] [23] [24] The three buildings include 950 Broadway, the former Richmond Methodist Episcopal Church at Richmond Avenue and West Ferry Street and Albright-Knox's Clifton Hall. The pieces were created from fabric collected and donated from all over the Buffalo area, sewn together by a collection of community volunteers. [23]
In April 2019 Browder installed "The Land of Hidden Gems" as the inaugural UNLV Transformation Fellow. [25] In June 2019 Browder installed "City of Threads" at the Arlington Arts Center in Arlington, Virginia. [1] In September 2019 she installed "Kaleidoscopic" in ArtPrize's "Project 1" in Grand Rapids, Michigan. It included draping a community center building, and covering four sky walks located in downtown Grand Rapids. [26]
In 2021 Browder was invited to participate in the Bruges Triennial in Bruges, Belgium. Her entry Happy Coincidences consists of three temporary and one permanent installation throughout the city. [27] One installation is a large canvas digital print on architectural mesh hanging along the Verversdijk. [28]