Artist’s Statement

Amy Selwyn creates refracted portraits excavated from memory and myth that assert, I am here. Simultaneously expanding and compressing time, the portraits insist on the continuity of presence.

Bio

Amy Selwyn is a visual artist, writer, and storyteller based in the seacoast area of New Hampshire. She is a transplanted NY’er, and vacillates between loving the quieter life on the seacoast and longing for Tribeca. 

Amy is working toward her MFA in Mixed Media from Maine Media Workshops + College, Rockport, ME. She specializes in creating refracted portraits constructed from memory and myth, using photography, storytelling, performance and alternative processes. 

Amy’s work has been featured in Lens Magazine, The Curated Fridge (Winter ’22 and Spring ’23), the Firehouse Arts Center (Newburyport, MA), the SE Center for Photography “Botanicals” show, and in various exhibitions at The Griffin Museum. 

Amy earned her BA from Cornell University and her MBA from New York University. and the Stockholm School of Economics. 

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