Amy Reckley

I think of my practice to be drawing. The questions that I attempt to explore in my work are grounded in contemporary art discourse that combines two and three-dimensional practices into an elastic definition of drawing.

Borrowing fragments from the natural and the constructed world, my drawings are never completely non-representational. In response to specific locations and architectural structures, I propose for the viewer a fluctuation between perspective and physical presence. I reflect upon a particular set of structural conditions set forth by existing spaces (corners, rafters, stairs, ceilings, walls), and engage possibilities within those spaces with specific materials, gestures and divisions.

For me, drawing is the most immediate visual method of inventing, expanding and articulating simultaneous realities. I am interested in the potential of an instance where space, location, and time teeter between reality and imagination.

My personal studio practice does not fit comfortably within the confines of traditional definitions in drawing. I incorporate aspects of installation, sculpture, video, performance and digital manipulations as ways of exploring all stages in the life of a particular work. By using a variety of methods in conjunction with traditional and non-traditional media my processes serve to communicate drawing as a practice that is both noun and verb, object and action, formal and conceptual.

New genres within the contemporary art world question how we define art – what form it takes, where it takes place, how long it lasts - and the process of making.