BIOGRAPHY OF AMY NOVELLI
Amy Novelli's paintings reflect her passion for motion and
emotion. Always experimenting within a variety of media and
subjects, all Novelli's artworks share a manner that is
vivacious, exuberant, and a celebration of life. Whether
she is presenting figurative or non-figurative subjects,
her style is easily recognizable. She builds her images
through multiple layers of vigorous mark-making, boldly
using vivid colors and drawing on a rich tradition of
painter’s techniques. Employing oil, acrylic, encaustic,
collage or wooden cutouts, her textural compositions
"appear to be worked by the hands of a wrestler caught in a
tempest, a Turneresque maelstrom of elemental
forces."
Animals and nature predominate in Novelli's work,
especially horses. A life long equestrian and animal
trainer, she defines her spirited painting as an attempt to
capture and to honor the quintessence of living things. The
experience of gentling her wild mustangs is the basis for
numerous works. "Life is motion; animals think and
communicate using body language. It is the undeniable
honesty of this ‘talking dance’ that I aspire to embrace
and share through my art."
Capturing motion and emotion is clearly Amy’s artistic
drive. To this end, she incorporates the influence of
German Expressionism, abstraction, Native American
Trickster Mythology, and the history of cartoon and western
pop-culture- imagery.
Born in Warren, Ohio in 1963, Amy Novelli received her
Bachelors of Fine Arts degree, cum laude, from the Columbus
College of Art & Design in 1987. This was followed by
her Masters of Fine Arts from Carnegie Mellon in Pittsburgh
in 1994. Surrounded by her menagerie of animals and desert
flora, Amy now lives and paints along the Santa Cruz River
in Tucson, Arizona
Amy Novelli's art can be viewed at the following galleries:
Wilde
Meyer Galleries,
Scottsdale, AZ
Jane
Hamilton Fine Art,
Tucson, AZ
Bohemia
Artisans Emporium,
Tucson, AZ
Shane
Knight Gallery,
Flagstaff, AZ
De Zion Gallery,
Springdale, UT
Running Horse Gallery,
Silver City, NM
Cowgirl
Red,
Madrid NM
Buffalo Girl,
Ranch and Roll, Seattle, WA and Los Angeles, CA
Modern
2 Go,
Columbus, Ohio
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Diane Armitage,
THE Magazine,
Santa Fe, NM, 1996