Amelia Briggs is an NYC-based multidisciplinary fiber, painting, and installation artist. She received her BFA from Indiana University in 2009 and her MFA from the University of Memphis in 2015. Briggs has shown with platforms and galleries internationally, including Art Basel with LVMH in Miami, FL; Boston University in Boston, MA; Bowes-Parris Gallery in London, UK; Cohle Gallery in Paris, France; Exhibition A in New York, NY; Glass Rice Rice in San Francisco, CA; The Hole in Los Angeles, CA; Platform in New York, NY; and, most recently, Future Fair in New York, NY. In 2019, Briggs began constructing mirrors from reclaimed materials, using bedsheets, fiber, and thin coats of latex. Incorporating them into her lush installations, Briggs posted images online, which caught the eye of renowned Los Angeles-based designer Kelly Wearstler. This instigated a collaboration that continues today. This partnership has been featured in publications including Vogue, Elle Decor, Architectural Digest, The New York Times, Surface, and Domino.
Artist Statement
My work explores themes of embodiment and inner nature through soft sculptures that act as metaphors for the body.Using reclaimed materials, clothing, fabrics, fibers, and pigments, I render flickers of emotion and memory into strange botanical forms that transform into and around one another, animating the complex emotional terrain embedded within the body.
Rooted in quilting, I suture, layer, and bind textures and colors that exude playful energy in the search for recognition.Drawing on the medium's origins as a practical survival tool for insulation and armor, my work plays with the concept of a comfort object. Through my rural upbringing, I learned to find solace in stuffed animals, inventing complex personalities I imagined buried beneath brightly colored fur.
Continuously in flux, our bodies are living documents and vessels for emotion. My work turns the body inside out, portraying imagined interiors built on formative experience and raising questions about the unknowable worlds that surround us
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