（USA, b.1970)
Born in Norwood, currently lives and works in Chicago, Amy Van Winkle is a self-taught artist. Her early artistic pursuits involved a #2 pencil and a sketchpad. From there she began creating mixed media work on canvas with old textbooks and acrylic. Her influences include Gerhard Richter, Mark Rothko and Cy Twombly. Along with these artist's influences, there's always a hint of structure and control to her abstract paintings. Amy Van Winkle has participated in multiple shows in the U.S.A. including Freeport Art Museum, and her works are included in the collection of various noted enterprises including Bank of Holland.
Amy works mainly in the medium of Encaustic and oil paint. During the creative process of her oil paintings, she usually scrapes the surface on which it adds texture and creates a dialog between the fused layer. Encaustic, with over 3000 years of history, is a wax based medium applied on mural paintings in ancient Greece. As the oldest known pigment binder, encaustic combines molten beeswax with dry pigment and tree resin which makes it impervious to moisture and can last long. In Amy Van Winkle’s encaustic works, she keeps the transparency of watercolors and the volume of oil paint.
Museum Shows
2017 Building Layers: Modern Encaustic ,Freeport Art Museum Freeport, IL
Solo & Group Shows
2022 Beneath The Surface, Kennedy Contemporary, Newport Beach, CA
2022 Sealed In History, Slate Gray Gallery, Telluride, CO
2021 Women of the Faraway, Slate Gray Gallery, Telluride, CO
2019 Daily Sentiments, Bluerider ART Gallery, Taipei
2018 Abstracta, Roan & Black Gallery, Saugatuck, MI
2018 Abstract Invitational, Keep Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
2018 Artist Tour, ART, Boulder, CO
2017 Diffused Surface, Gallery 201, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL
2017 Beyond the Veil, Keep Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
2017 Building Layers: Modern Encaustic, Freeport Art Museum, Freeport, IL
2016 The Dot Show, Chicago Arts District, Chicago, IL
2016 Improvised Reality, Gallery 201, Argonne Natl. Laboratory, Lemont, IL
2016 Parts and Pieces, Roan & Black Gallery, Saugatuck, MI
2015 Mixed Media, Roan & Black Gallery, Saugatuck, MI
2015 Transition, 15th & West Gallery, Chicago, IL, Curated by Mario Gonzales
2015 Centerline Exhibition, Zhou B Art Center, Chicago, IL, Curated by Sergio Gomez
2015 Bound To The Light, Gallerie 520, Santa Fe, NM
2015 Chicago Invasion, Bluerider Art, Taipei, Taiwan
2015 unchARTed, Motor Row Gallery, Chicago, IL
2015 Textual Encounters, ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL
2015 Snap Shot, Pop-up show by Roan & Black Gallery, Chicago, IL
2014 Centerline Exhibition, Zhou B Art Center, Chicago, IL, Curated by Sergio Gomez
2014 Unbounded, Morpho Gallery, Chicago, IL, Juried by Kathleen Waterloo & Kathy Roman
2014 Abstractions, Roan & Black Gallery, Saugatuck, MI
2013 Guest Artist, Cornelia Arts Building, Chicago, IL, Juried by Jason Messinger
2013 Winner’s Exhibition/8th Annual Emerging Artist, Morpho Gallery, Chicago, IL
2013 Home Grown, Roan & Black Gallery, Saugatuck, MI
2013 Celebrate Chicago, Robin B Gallery, Chicago, IL
2013 Energy Training Center Exhibition, Chicago, IL
2013 Black and White, Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock, NY, Juried by Peik Larsen
2013 8th Annual Emerging Artist, Morpho Gallery, Chicago, IL, Curated by Nikki Yagoda
2010 Art For Human Rights Select Preview, Gallery 180/Illinois Institute of Art, Chicago, IL
2008 Mixed Media, Fluevog, Chicago, IL
2007 Art Against AIDS Select Preview, Gallery 180/Illinois Institute of Art, Chicago, IL
PUBLICATIONS
ACS Magazine, Jan/Feb Issue, 2016
Studio Visit Magazine, Issue 29
Journey of Dreams, 2014 (limited edition)
International Contemporary Artists, Volume VIII
CORPORATE COMMISSONS & SALES
Robur, LLC, Dallas, TX
Chapman-Spingola Law Firm, Chicago, IL
Bank of Holland, Grand Rapids, MI
Badesch-Abramovitch Law Firm, Chicago, IL
E.J. Welch Co., Elk Grove Village, IL