My interactive installations physically exist as art when temporarily assembled in a space and experienced by an audience. I strive toward an aesthetic, personal, and collective balance of chaos, order, and repetition--a raw language I feel resonates physically, emotionally, culturally, and spiritually within and around all of us--to convey that we are part of a whole. This balance in part depends on the audience who completes my creative process, invited to perpetuate, manipulate, and perceive my imagery in specific and purposeful ways. Without the audience's careful participation, my work is static and unfinished. Following each installation, my work exists only through documentation, dialogue, connection, memory.

Since 2000, Amy Stacey Curtis (the Maine Arts Commission's 2005 Individual Artist Fellow For Visual Art) has been presenting solo-biennial exhibits of interactive installation and new-media works in the mills of various Maine towns, each solo biennial a 22-month process and requiring audience perpetuation. "The audience completes my creative process. Without participants my work is incomplete." Curtis has committed to this large-in-scope work to convey that we are a part of a whole, that everyone and everything is connected and affects. Contact Curtis to schedule an artist talk.

Education

MA Art and Psychology, Vermont College of Norwich University, Montpelier, Vermont, 2000

BA Studio Art (Phi Beta Kappa, highest distinction), University of Maine, Orono, Maine, 1993

Grants, Awards, and Honors

2009 Good Idea Grant, Maine Arts Commission, supported by National Endowment for the Arts

2009 Rebel Blend Fund, Coffee By Design

2007 Good Idea Grant, Maine Arts Commission, supported by National Endowment for the Arts

2005 Individual Artist Fellowship, Maine Arts Commission, supported by National Endowment for the Arts

2005 Good Idea Grant, Maine Arts Commission, supported by National Endowment for the Arts

2004 Fragile introduces matrices and linear equations in Discovering Advanced Algebra: An Investigative Approach, Key Curriculum Press

2003 Good Idea Grant, Maine Arts Commission, supported by National Endowment for the Arts

1993 Ruth Stebbins and Edmund G. Schildknect Art Honor Award

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2011 Amy Stacey Curtis: 270 Minutes, January 29, The Garage, San Diego, California

2010 TIME, October 9-28, (Maine location tba) Sixth solo biennial

2009 27 Minutes, 27 Hours, November 6-28, June Fitzpatrick Gallery, Portland, Maine

2009 Amy Stacey Curtis: Sort, October 7-24, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, Massachusetts

2008 LIGHT, October 4-24, Sanford Mill, Sanford, Maine. Fifth solo biennial

2007 Currents 4: Amy Stacey Curtis, November 15-April 13, 2008 Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine

2007 Lightwork, November 2-24, June Fitzpatrick Gallery, Portland, Maine

2006 Biennial Paintings, November 9-December 14, Leonard R. Craig Art Gallery, Unity College, Unity, Maine

2006 SOUND, October 7-27, Lockwood Mill, Waterville, Maine. Fourth solo biennial

2005 99 Sounds, November 4-26, June Fitzpatrick Gallery, Portland, Maine

2004 CHANGE, October 9-27, Fort Andross, Brunswick, Maine. Third solo biennial

2003 Antecedent:Change, November 7-29, June Fitzpatrick Gallery, Portland, Maine

2003 Please Start Here, October 10-November 11, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

2002 Amy Stacey Curtis, October 15-November 17, North Yarmouth Academy, Yarmouth, Maine

2002 MOVEMENT, October 12-26, Old Sebago Shoe Mill, Westbrook, Maine. Second solo biennial

2002 Ere Movement, May 3-4, Portland Stage Company, Portland, Maine

2000 RETROSPECTIVE: EXPERIENCE, July 7-August 15, Bates Mill Complex, Lewiston, Maine. First solo biennial

2000 Thesis Exhibit, March 31-April 8, Vermont College of Norwich University, Montpelier, Vermont

Selected Group Exhibitions

2011 Three-person drawing exhibit, Summer, Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston, Maine

2009 Studio Walls, March 6-28, SPACE, Portland, Maine

2009 Black & White & Red, February 14-March 14, June Fitzpatrick Gallery, Portland, Maine

2009 Recent Acquisitions, January 23-March 30, Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston, Maine

2008 Drawn, September 4-October 8, Hans Weiss Newspace Gallery, Manchester, Connecticut

2008 The Crossing of Time and Environment, Outdoor Micro-Installations Exhibition, June 8-17, Toshei Village, Danei Township, Tainan County, and Tainan University of Technology, Taiwan

2007 New England Now, November 15th-January 11, Paper New England, Hartford, Connecticut

2007 Tiny, November 10-December 22, Whitney Art Works, Portland, Maine

2007 15th Anniversary Exhibition, August 3-30, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

2007 Soundmarks: New Work by NB Aldrich/Zach Poff and Amy Stacey Curtis, June 7-August 15, Art Interactive, Cambridge, Massachusetts

2007 Sound Exchange (two-person), January 5-February 24, Grothaus+Pearl Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri

2006 Road Movies, June 14, The LAB, San Francisco, California

2006 Signal and Noise, April 27-29, Video In Studios, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

2006 Laterna Magica II: Video Art Festival, March 24-May 7, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, Massachusetts

2006 Activator, January 19-March 19, Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston, Maine

2005 A New Order: Appropriation Art in the Digital Age, December 3-February 5, Montserrat College of Art Gallery, Beverly, Massachusetts

2005 Luminous Recurrence, December 1-January 9, Shore Institute of Contemporary Art, Long Branch, New Jersey

2004 Subterranean Angels, June 6-August 31, Revolving Museum LAB, Lowell, Massachusetts

2004 UMVA Annual, February 5-27, College of the Atlantic Blum Gallery, Bar Harbor, Maine

2003 ISC@GFS, International Sculpture Center Member Juried Exhibition, July 26-September 28, Grounds For Sculpture, Hamilton, New Jersey

2003 The Four Elements, June 15-August 31, Forest Hills Educational Trust, Boston, Massachusetts

2002 Terrain: Sculpture Today, March 9-April 24, Institute of Contemporary Art, Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine

2000 H2O 2000: Water as a Theme in Art, June 6-July 30, T.W. Wood Art Gallery, Vermont College of Norwich University, Montpelier, Vermont

1997 Area Artists 1997, Lewiston-Auburn College, University of Southern Maine, Lewiston, Maine

1993 Senior Thesis Exhibit, Maine Coast Artists Gallery, Rockport, Maine

Curatorial

2007 Sound Exchange, January 5-February 24, Grothaus+Pearl Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri

2004 Touch, January 9-February 27, SPACE, Portland, Maine

2003 Women, Trauma, & Visual Expression, October 17-November 13, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, Illinois. Learn about Curtis's book Women, Trauma, & Visual Expression

Selected Bibliography/Media

2009 Philip Isaacson, Maine Sunday Telegram, "In the Arts: Area Artists show brimming with talent, energy", February 22

2008 Bob Keyes, Maine Sunday Telegram, "The Light Fantastic", October 19

2008 Maine Art Scene, Maine Arts & Culture Online Magazine, "Maine Artist Interview: Amy Stacey Curtis", October 18

2008 Andrea Rose, Weekly Observer, "Let There Be Light," October 15

2008 Chloe Johnson, The Wire, "Let There Be Light," October 9

2008 Renee Worthing, Sanford/Springvale Register, "Weekly Interview: Amy Stacey Curtis," September 25

2008 Nancy Heiser, PortCity Life, "Mill Work," September

2008 Elena Sarni, Big RED & Shiny, "Amy Stacey Curtis @ Millstone Place", September 29

2008 Donna Landry, Journal Tribune/York County Weekend, "Aspects of Light," September 27-28

2008 "Maine Art Scene," on Maine Watch with Jennifer Rooks, Maine Public Broadcasting Network, February 8

2008 Elena Sarni, Artscope, "Currents4: Amy Stacey Curtis," January/February

2007 Ray Routhier, Maine Sunday Telegram, "Big, yet tiny," December 9

2007 Bob Keyes, Maine Sunday Telegram, Arts Dispatches: "Installation artist featured in annual Colby exhibition," November 18

2007 Matt Eagan, The Hartford Courant, "New England Art On Paper," November 15

2007 Ken Johnson, Boston Sunday Globe, Critics' Picks, "Now hear this," June 17

2007 Jacqueline Houton, Big RED & Shiny, "Soundmarks @ Art Interactive," June 13

2007 Ray T. Barker, The Pitch, Kansas City, "Sound Exchange," February 5

2006 Doug Harlow, Morning Sentinel, "Art as sound: Hear what you see," October 8

2006 Bob Keyes, Maine Sunday Telegram, "Interactive 'Sound' installed in old Waterville plant," October 1

2006 Amy Calder, Morning Sentinel, "Art on a grand scale," August 28

2006 Chris Thompson, The Portland Phoenix, "Retooled," February 2

2005 Michael Townsend, The Bollard, "99 pictures of sound on the wall," November 9

2005 Rich McKown, Art New England, February/March

2005 Cate McQuaid, The Boston Globe, "When the lines blur," January 7

2004 Benjamin Genocchio, The New York Times, "A show where light is very heavy," December 19

2004 Bob Keyes, Maine Sunday Telegram, "You're invited to help artist create," October 17

2004 Chris Thompson, Portland Magazine, "The Shape of Things," September

2004 Chris Thompson, The Portland Phoenix, "Risky Business: Visual art's a great gamble this fall," September 17

2004 Sam Pfeifle, The Portland Phoenix, "Portland's Most Influential (Women)," August 13

2004 Maine Times, "Eight Experts Focus on the Year Ahead: Curtain Rises on New Talents and Venues," January

2004 Maggie Knowles, The Portland Phoenix, "The Touchables: Hands-on in SPACE," January 23

2003 Burt Wasserman, Prime Time, "Meeting the third dimension," September, Art Views

2003 Benjamin Genocchio, The New York Times, "A show with a good sense of humor," August 10

2003 Christine Temin, The Boston Globe, "Cemetery branches out with subtle, site-specific artwork," July 20

2002 Chris Thompson, The Portland Phoenix, "Your own risk," October 17

2002 Bob Keyes, Maine Sunday Telegram, "Movement invites viewers to play," October 13

2002 Chris Thompson, The Portland Phoenix, "The art of raw," May 2

2002 Jason Wilkins, Casco Bay Weekly, "Moving art: Local artist's latest venture combines movement with the psyche," May 2

2002 Jenna Russell, The Portland Phoenix, "On solid ground: The ICA's 'Terrain' provides sculpture that explores," March 22

2002 Phil Isaacson, Maine Sunday Telegram, "No doubt about it, sculpture show sizzles," March 17

Selected Collections

Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston, Maine

Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine

Paper New England, Hartford, Connecticut

Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine

Representation

June Fitzpatrick Gallery, Portland, Maine, two-dimensional works

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