Amie Cunat
About the artist
Amie Cunat (b. 1986, McHenry, IL) is a Japanese American artist, whose installations and paintings confront familiarity by exaggerating or omitting characteristics from an observed source. Influenced by depictions of nature from Shaker gift drawings, Art Deco, science fiction and horror movies, Cunat's recent paintings include imagery of plant life that appear loud and flamboyant at the onset. Their exclamatory presence is supplanted and prolonged through charged hues and the abstracted forms. Cunat received her MFA from Cornell University, Post-Baccalaureate in Painting and Drawing from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and her BA in Visual Arts and Art History from Fordham University. She has had solo exhibitions at Dinner Gallery (NY), Peep (PA), Shaker Museum | Mount Lebanon, Knockdown Center, Sunroom Project Space at Wave Hill, Outside (MA), The Cooper Union, among others. Recent group exhibitions include Fur Cup at Underdonk (Brooklyn), The Unusual Suspects at DC Moore Gallery (NY), Surreality at Crush Curatorial (NY), The Unlikely Whole at ArtYard (NJ) and Softer but Louder at Geary Contemporary (NY). In 2019, she was awarded a Regional Economic Development Council Grant by NYSCA in collaboration with Shaker Museum | Mount Lebanon. Her work has been reviewed and featured by The New York Times, ARTnews, Artsy, Artnet News, Vogue Italia, ArtMaze Mag, and Two Coats of Paint. Cunat lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.