Work samples
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Neighbors are Watching"Neighbors are Watching" is a part of the ongoing "Views" Series by Amy Boone-McCreesh. This work on paper is collage and mixed media, complete with a curtain pattern created by watching eyes. Boone-McCreesh is interested in the ways taste and class manifest in our lives visually, including our home and the aesthetics of how we live. This piece was further influenced by being homebound in her Baltimore city home during the pandemic.
About Amy

WIN WIN WIN
Cloth Napkin Series
Boone-McCreesh has long been loyal to collage based processes and the precarious nature of this work- the rough and sometimes chaotic ways in which pieces come together parallel a lack of preciousness and ‘get it done’ attitude often embraced in the home; found in mending, fixing, and patching with handiwork, all while attempting to maintain a sense of self.
Negotiating Spaces, 2021
Views
Views series:
Architecture appears to us globally in classist ways, through city planning, grand visual details and the views out of windows, manmade spaces define the humans they serve. Decorative clues, small and large, signify power and access. Small details such as Fresh flowers confirm access while a large home, beautiful views, and an expensive car flaunt power. Cultural aesthetics, passed down through families, such as color choices and fabrics in a home are often judged by others perceptions of good and bad taste. All of these aspects tell a story about socio economic positioning. These works on paper are a straight forward explorations of views, while the installation and sculptural pieces embody what it's like to be in a beautiful and maximal space. All works have the goal of questioning our level of access to beauty in our lives and the determining factors surrounding and mirroring our socio-economic status. Living in Baltimore city for over ten years, and being home-centered during the pandemic have helped shaped Boone-McCreesh’s newest View series.
Dream Sellers
Consider the life peddled to you - through pervasive cultural bias, gender stereotypes, and capitalism. The way your home looks, how you clothe yourself, access to nature and beauty. These are all topics ripe in the works of Alex Ebstein and Amy Boone-McCreesh. Dream Sellers examines the markers of success through the lens of societal pressures. Artists have long held mirrors to the worlds in which they live and Ebstein and Boone-McCreesh visually unravel what it means to exist today in a series of tactile, mixed media works. Topics including body shape preferences, advertising, slick store displays, and do- mestic life are pulled apart to question long held assumptions on class and the notion of upward mobility.
Amy Boone-McCreesh utilizes maximal aesthetics and visual tropes of grandeur in a new series that conflates window views and consumption of luxury goods. Her formative experiences growing up in a low socio-economic setting have led to further examinations of markers of success and how they manifest visually. The commodified access to beauty and nature mix with a knee-jerk opposition to notions of “good” taste in her colorful mixed-media spaces. Hand-cut collaged works on paper are informed by the labor of craft and domesticity. This is countered by the precise geometry of interior spaces and the machine-cut, synthetic materials present in the curtain-like window hangings and wall charms. Borrowing from the world she inhabits, Boone-McCreesh aspires to visually delight while questioning the prominent tastes of cultural acceptance.
Together, Alex and Amy probe at the standards and aesthetic perimeters that ensnare women, asking questions through their visual vocabularies. Mimicking the culture being sold to them, they aim to create “beauty” while testing the exclusionary limitations of the concept. The moving target of success, as it relates to the pressure to have a certain home or domestic life, fitness goals, trend conformity and other slippery milestones, tinges their work with an inescapable anxiety. Underscoring their mutual fascination with brand collaborations, limited editions and the mechanism of scarcity in art, beauty and fashion, the artists worked together to create a set of small sculptures that straddle high and low aesthetics.
Luxury Items - works on paper 2018-2020
These mixed media and collage works on paper and sculptural forms made in the last two years. With this work I aim to explore a decorative and maximal aesthetic while employing collage and efficient ways of connecting and folding paper to create organic shaped drawings. The pieces in this category are worked on both sides and then cut and folded to reveal the visual vocabulary on the back. Decisions on compositions are made as more pieces are cut and folded, creating an intuitive process that is rooted in pattern, mark-making, and heavy labor in repetitive paper cutting.
Objects of Desire
The exhibition features an adaptation of a prior installation, The View. This piece creates a space meant to be reminiscent of looking into or out of an idyllic view. Views, in our neighborhoods and our surroundings are the thing we pay a premium for, yet the scene being viewed is ultimately free. Our surroundings, domestic and geographic are also an indication of access and economic structure. Naturally-inspired garlands and man-made surfaces clash in this piece to create a space that is both immersive and contained. All of the work in the show is multi-media, employing accessible materials as well as technology to further the conversation around consumption and craft.
Luxury Items - sculptural works
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Vanity Wall HangingVanity Wall Hanging
2019
Digital print and mixed media on silk and vinyl, steel brackets, acrylic and mixed media charms
64” x 39” x 7”
Inspired by the highly branded items and clothing associated with high fashion, this piece repeats my name in the place of a brand. This work considers the artist as commodity and what we accept as being of high cultural and financial value
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Vanity wall Hanging (detail)Vanity Wall Hanging
2019
Digital print and mixed media on silk and vinyl, steel brackets, acrylic and mixed media charms
64” x 39” x 7”
Inspired by the highly branded items and clothing associated with high fashion, this piece repeats my name in the place of a brand as well as past artworks as imagery. This work considers the artist as commodity and what we accept as being of high cultural and financial value. -
The WindowThe Window
2017
Wood, custom fabric, mixed media garlands, cut paper
44” x 32” x 3”
This piece is one of the earliest 'window' pieces - exploring what it means to have a view and what may be contained in that view. This piece also has a formal connection to painting and interaction of 2D and 3D spaces. -
Fruits of Our Labor IIFruits of our Labor II
2017, Acrylic, foam, fabric, mixed media, cut paper, found objects, 31” x 28” x 22”
This piece references a table top spilling over with an abundance of goods. The title questions how we spend our money and what we consider to be worthy. Dutch still life paintings, that depicted opulence through access to fresh fruits, flowers, and meat were also an inspiration. -
Fruits of Our Labor IFruits of our Labor I
2017, Acrylic, wood, fabric, mixed media, cut paper, found objects
47” x 24” x 21”
This piece references a table top spilling over with an abundance of goods. The title questions how we spend our money and what we consider to be worthy. Dutch still life paintings, that depicted opulence through access to fresh fruits, flowers, and meat were also an inspiration.
Taste and Privilege exhibition views
The exhibition as a whole dances around the idea of aesthetic taste and the way it forms culturally. Maximal installations and works on paper, as well as sculptural forms and intense color combinations are the primary vehicles for the show.
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Depictions of PowerDepictions of Power, 2017
Center wall: Custom fabric, vinyl, mixed media garlands
Pillars: Acrylic, foam, custom fabric, mixed media garlands, floor vinyl
7’ h x 13’ w x 10.5’ d
Pillars range from 3.3’ to 4.5’
Part of the exhibition "Taste and Privilege" at York College in Pennsylvania
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Fruits of our Labor IFruits of our Labor I, 2017
Acrylic, wood, fabric, mixed media, cut paper, found objects, 47” x 24” x 21”
A sculptural piece that exists somewhere between tabletop, pillar, and sculpture. Using maximal decorative elements to reference fruit, or excess, and how we choose to spend our money in the Western World.