Amanda Flowers

Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA

Artist statement

Amanda Flowers is an interdisciplinary artist from the Bay Area based in Los Angeles. Flowers' visuals range from depictions of dreams, passed down memories from her grandparents, to the imagined terrains of “The Shadow Realm” which come from her emotions. Her art practice is embodied by the essence of her maternal grandparent's journey from North Carolina during The Great Migration in the late 1960's. She integrates an ancestral bridge to honor her lineage through imagined ancestral motifs. Significant to Flowers' work is an interest in the parallels of cycles of life between humans and plants. She captures this through a portrayal of reincarnation and decaying elementals. She views nature as a collaborator with which she can explore the loose remnants of suppressed emotions to depict a primordial land of hidden realms. Flowers encompasses many of these elements on burlap, wood, clay, oil, and repurposed materials from deconstructed art pieces. She is inspired by a constellation of Black spiritual mythologies that range from the emotional subconscious to the metaphysical and physical historical experience of Black enslavement. She creates a rich territory on the edge of science depicting her own cosmology and quasiscience of a space where our emotions lay. Her work has appeared in numerous group exhibitions, including Christie’s Los Angeles, Wearable Art Gala, Huntington Beach Art Center, Arushi Gallery, Various Small Fires, Pasadena City College, and California State...

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