A M I E P O T S I C
Midnight Mass at The Delaware Contemporary For Immediate Release September 20, 2019
Media Release Media Contact Kathrine Page 302.656.6466 x7103 [email protected]
Midnight Mass Amie Potsic
January 24 - April 25, 2020 Opening Reception: Friday, February 7 5 - 9 PM during Art Loop
Our lobby design integration program continues to bring an exhilarating display of visual aesthetics and offers regional artists the opportunity to explore the range of possibilities for aerial installations. Erica Loustau, Adjunct Deputy for Design Integration, invited Amie Potsic to display her silk installation for our 2020 season.
Working with the expansive industrial architecture of The Delaware Contemporary, Potsic strives to punctuate the height, scale, and proportion of the interior space. With over 250 linear feet of silk, Potsic has designed a monumental site-specific installation involving panels suspended on wires in the atrium plenum. The semi-translucent silk with photographic imagery of silhouetted tree branches weave and dance throughout the space in sweeping, graceful, abstract lines. By grafting the panels into the space and extending them from the entrance at a lower level and upward toward the clerestory windows, Potsic's work not only enhances the museum's architecture, but also affirms how art is intrinsically related to the existential human experience as viewers gaze at the billowing, twilight forest canopy overhead.
Potsic's work investigates the idea of woodland reveries surrounded by evocations of deciduous trees in winter, as though the landscape itself has been pulled from the earth and the nave at Midnight Mass replanted in the lobby. Like medieval basilicas that were designed to confer a cosmological concept of the dome of heaven, Potsic festoons her silk in single point perspective to conjure the grand processions during Midnight Mass. The sheer immediacy of the work evokes a sense of triumph and joy; the vast array of willowy drapery glistening in cobalt blue creates the illusion of a dome of heaven thus serving as a metaphor for celestial realms. Further, the dramatic sweeping arms symbolize a welcoming gesture for the viewer. As such, Potsic strives to awaken and nourish the divine mysteries of liturgical space. In its presence, her work challenges viewer's notion of a forest sanctuary as an invitation to contemplate the immensity and sublimity of nature and their place in it.
As an observer of the natural world, Potsic's composition of undulating elliptical arches rests within a hemispherical stage, which point to a global call for action. Her work is not only breathtakingly beautiful and enchanting, but underscores the urgency on climate change and the need for environmental protections. By creating both a visceral and cerebral connection to trees and the natural world, Potsic's panoply of silk hold a double entendre: they offer a metaphorical protective covering, while drawing attention to universal deforestation and the loss of the earth's essential protective layer.
BIO Amie Potsic received her MFA in photography from the San Francisco Art Institute and her BA in Photo Journalism and English Literature from Indiana University graduating with Distinguished Honors and a member of Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society. She has held faculty appointments at University of California, Berkeley, Ohlone College, and San Francisco Art Institute; and, has been a guest lecturer at The University of the Arts, Ursinus College, and The International Center of Photography. Potsic is currently the CEO and Principal Curator of Amie Potsic Art Advisory, LLC, and Chair of the Art in City Hall Artistic Advisory Board in the Office of Arts and Culture of the City of Philadelphia. Her work has been exhibited locally, nationally, and internationally.
Amie Potsic Silk Installation (Detail) #5 Amie Potsic Silk Installation (Detail) #6 Amie Potsic Silk Installation (Detail) #7 © Amie Potsic 2015 © Amie Potsic 2015 © Amie Potsic 2015 Artist Statement – Midnight Mass
My work references the sensory experience of being within the forest while encouraging us all to appreciate and preserve its future. Incarnate environmental explorations, my photographs and installations invite you to connect with your own perception of nature in a manner that is both intimate and enchanting. I focus on the beauty and mystery of the forest to share my sense of wonder, develop our connection to trees, and encourage environmental protections. Personal experience underscoring the urgency of climate change, I draw attention to deforestation by creating visceral and cerebral connections to trees and the natural world.
Midnight Mass is a site-specific installation created from over 250 feet of silk. The semi-translucent silk with photographic imagery from the forest weaves its way through the air to arch, bend, and arabesque in the sky. The panels extend from the entrance reaching up toward the looming windows behind to be backlit like stained glass. The installation fills the space in graceful, abstract lines and draping, drawing the eye up toward the apex of the room. Looking up at the illuminated silk, a conjured sense of our own scale, akin to what we feel in a cathedral or looking up at the forest canopy, enhances the experience of the artwork and museum’s architecture. “Some artists devote entire careers to a single obsession. Amie Potsic manages to divert a series of obsessions into clear and direct narratives that nonetheless build seamlessly into her own artistic portfolio.... The full scope of her oeuvre interacts and builds a distinct artistic voice.”
- Nicholas Shonberger, Independent Scholar Biography
Amie Potsic, MFA is an accomplished photographer and installation artist living in the Philadelphia area whose work addresses cultural, personal, and natural phenomena. Potsic has exhibited her work internationally at the Art Park in Rhodes, Greece; Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá, Colombia; Medfoundart di Cagliari, Italy; the Royal College of London, England as well as in museums and galleries throughout the United States. Potsic received her MFA in Photography from the San Francisco Art Institute and BA’s in Photojournalism and English Literature from Indiana University, graduating with Distinguished Honors and a member of Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society. She has held faculty appointments at the University of California at Berkeley, Ohlone College, and the San Francisco Art Institute, published her work in The San Francisco Chronicle and The Philadelphia Inquirer, and has been a guest lecturer at The International Center of Photography. Potsic is currently the CEO & Principal of Amie Potsic Art Advisory, LLC and Chair of the Art in City Hall Artistic Advisory Board to the Office of Arts and Culture of the City of Philadelphia.
A M I E P O T S I C
(610) 731- 6312 • [email protected] • www.amiepotsic.com 1057 Beaumont Road, Berwyn, PA 19312 USA
Solo Exhibitions
2020 Midnight Mass The Delaware Contemporary – Wilmington, DE 2019 Girl in the Garden Hot Bed/James Oliver Gallery – Philadelphia, PA 2018 Endangered Seasons Main Line Unitarian Church, Atrium – Devon, PA 2017 Brazilian Reverie Front Street Gallery – Philadelphia, PA 2016 Enchanted Forest Front Street Gallery – Philadelphia, PA 2015 Enchanted Forest James Oliver Gallery – Philadelphia, PA 2013 Endangered Seasons Main Line Unitarian Church, Sanctuary – Devon, PA 2012 Made In China Ven and Vaida Gallery – Philadelphia, PA 2011 Endangered Seasons The Art Park - Rhodes, Greece 2009 Skin Stories AREA 919 Gallery – Philadelphia, PA 2007 Thin Skinned Thick Sol Mednick Gallery, University of the Arts - Philadelphia, PA 2006 Tropicália, or Bread and Circuses Feast Your Eyes – Philadelphia, PA 2005 Tropicália, or Bread and Circuses Gallery 626 – Los Angeles, CA 2003 Doppelganger The Painted Bride – Philadelphia, PA Seduce Me Pyramind Studios – San Francisco, CA 2002 Thin Skinned Thick Quotidian Gallery - San Francisco, CA Ritual and Resilience Royal Ground – San Francisco, CA 2001 Seduce Me Cinema and Photography Gallery 1101, Southern Illinois University - Carbondale, IL 2000 Seduce Me Quotidian Gallery - San Francisco, CA 1999 Blindfolded Musée D'Honneur Minuscule, New Langton Arts - San Francisco, CA La Madonna Stillights Gallery - San Francisco, CA 1998 Disclosure Stillights Gallery - San Francisco, CA
Two & Three Person Shows
2017 Branching Out: Amie Potsic & Gina Michaels – Rittenhouse 1715 – Philadelphia, PA 2014 Frost – Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education – Philadelphia, PA 2011 Lay of the Land - Bluestone Gallery – Philadelphia, PA 2004 Art Out of Bounds The Gatehouse at Fort Mason – San Francisco, CA 2003 Other Selves Mission 17 - San Francisco, CA
Selected Group Shows
2020 Focal Points: Women Advancing the Aperture, The Delaware Contemporary Wilmington, DE Trees Henry Gallery, Penn State Great Valley – Malvern, PA 2019 The Photo Review Auction University of the Arts – Philadelphia, PA Trees of Life Old City Jewish Art Center – Philadelphia, PA 2018 The Photo Review Auction University of the Arts – Philadelphia, PA 2017 Branching Out Allen’s Lane Art Center & Settlement Music – Philadelphia, PA Celebration of Trees Old City Jewish Art Center – Philadelphia, PA Inliquid Benefit The Icebox at the Crane – Philadelphia, PA Snowflake Biennial HeavyBubble HQ – Philadelphia, PA 2016 Semi-Finalist Exhibition Bombay Saphire Artisan Series The Painted Bride – Philadelphia, PA The Photo Review Auction The University of the Arts – Philadelphia, PA Inliquid v16 Benefit The Icebox at the Crane – Philadelphia, PA Morning Meditations Old City Jewish Community Center – Philadelphia, PA 2015 New Eyes: Experimental Photography Today The Delaware Contemporary Best In Show - Wilmington, DE Skin as Medium & Metaphor Royal College of London – London, England Permanent Collection Exhibition The Art Park – Rhodes, Greece The Photo Review Auction University of the Arts – Philadelphia, PA ArtWorks: Anti-Defamation League – Engagement Studios – Philadelphia, PA Inliquid v15 The Icebox at Crane Arts – Philadelphia, PA 2014 Philly Photo Day 2014 Philadelphia Photographic Arts Center – Philadelphia, PA The Photo Review Auction University of the Arts – Philadelphia, PA Inliquid v14 Icebox at The Crane – Philadelphia, PA Aware Stoneleigh Foundation – Philadelphia, PA 2013 The Photo Review Auction University of the Arts – Philadelphia, PA Inliquid v13 Icebox at The Crane – Philadelphia, PA Aware Stoneleigh Foundation – Philadelphia, PA 2012 Turn Here Borowsky Gallery, Gershman Y – Philadelphia, PA Art for Healing Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine, University of Pennsylvania – Philadelphia, PA Aware Stoneleigh Foundation – Philadelphia, PA 2012 Auction Exhibition Silver Eye Center for Photography – Pittsburgh, PA Inliquid v12 Icebox at The Crane – Philadelphia, PA 2011 Keystone.1 The 2011 Pennsylvania Photography Biennial SilverEye Center for Photography – Pittsburgh, PA Do Your Bidding The Print Center – Philadelphia, PA Art for Healing Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine, University of Pennsylvania – Philadelphia, PA Inliquid v11 Icebox at The Crane – Philadelphia, PA Aware Stoneleigh Foundation – Philadelphia, PA 2010 Skin Deep Rowan University Art Gallery – Glassboro, NJ Betsy Meyer Memorial Exhibition Main Line Art Center – Haverford, PA 2010 Silver Photo612 – Haddon Heights, NJ Pictopia Inaugural Exhibition Pictopia Gallery – Emeryville, CA Journeys The Lightroom Salon Gallery - Philadelphia, PA 84th Annual International Competition: Photography! The Print Center – Philadelphia, PA Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts and Sciences - Loveladies, NJ Nature Nurture Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Hospital – Philadelphia, PA Personal Universal Photo 612 – Haddon Heights, NJ 2009 13 Months AREA 919 – Philadelphia, PA Made In China: POST Exhibition AREA 919 – Philadelphia, PA Paperless Photo Photo 612 – Haddon Heights, NJ Mastered Mastery Charter School – Philadelphia, PA Out of the Blue Community Education Center – Philadelphia, PA Personal Universal University City Arts League – Phildaelphia, PA 2008 Sneak Peak The Philadelphia Foundation – Philadelphia, PA Out of the Blue PhotoWest Gallery – Philadelphia, PA Piece Process: Every Wall Shall Fall Pomegranate Gallery – New York, NY Big Food Bowman Gallery, Allegheny College – Meadville, PA 2007 Art for Healing Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia – Philadelphia, PA Graphic Content The Print Center – Philadelphia, PA Piece Process Glen & Viola Walters Cultural Arts Center - Hillsboro, OR Piece Process Memorial Art Gallery at Rochester University – Rochester, NY 2006 67th Annual Juried Exhibition Woodmere Art Museum – Philadelphia, PA Visions of Liberty The National Constitution Center Museum – Philadelphia, PA POST Selections The Felicity R. “Bebe” Benoliel Gallery, CFEVA – Philadelphia, PA Consequence of Light ARTROM Gallery - Rome, Italy 2005 Piece Process Gavilan College – Gilroy, CA ArtSpan Canvas Gallery – San Francisco, CA 2004 Creature Comfort New Langton Arts – San Francisco, CA SF Open Studios Exhibit SOMARTS Gallery – San Francisco, CA Vault of Heavenly Matrimony Burningman Project – Black Rock City, NV ArtSpan Canvas Gallery – San Francisco, CA Piece Process Athens Institute of Contemporary Art – Athens, GA 2003 SF Open Studios Exhibit SOMARTS Gallery – San Francisco, CA LiquidVox Vox Pupuli Gallery – Philadelphia, PA Chapel of Temptation Burningman Project – Black Rock City, NV Visions Reed Whipple Cultural Center Gallery – Las Vegas, NV Millimeter Platform Photography – San Francisco, CA Sex in the City S.F. Black and White Gallery – San Francisco, CA Skin 2003 Icebox Gallery – Minneapolis, MN Vivandamovie Red Devil Lounge Screenings – San Francisco, CA Images of the Virgin Gallery Tonantzin – San Juan Bautista, CA 2002 Blood Show Quotidian Gallery – San Francisco, CA Fotosemana Museo de Arte Moderna de Bogota – Bogota, Colombia Fotosemana Galeria El Museo - Bogota, Colombia A Night To Remember New Langton Arts – San Francisco, CA Emerging Bay Area Photographers Society for Photographic Education Conference, San Francisco Art Institute – San Francisco, CA Ladyfest Los Angeles: Thin Skinned Thick Ladyfest LA – Los Angeles, CA Inliquidation Painted Bride Art Center – Philadelphia, PA Piece Process A.R.C. Gallery – Chicago, IL Five Photographers Focus Gallery – San Francisco, CA SF Open Studios SOMARTS Gallery – San Francisco, CA BioTech DaVinci Art Alliance - Philadelphia, PA Exposed Artoconecto / National Endowment for the Arts – Washington DC 2001 Luminous Wonders of the Electric World New Langton Arts – San Francisco, CA Documenta USA The Museum of New Art – Detroit, MI New Art The Museum of New Art - Detroit, MI San Francisco Art Institute Auction San Francisco Art Institute - San Francisco, CA SF Camerawork: Celebrate Vision Wheelhouse/SF Camerawork - San Francisco, CA Medfoundart The Mediterranean Foundation for Art - Cagliari, Italy Beauty Matters Pentimenti Gallery - Philadelphia, PA 2000 Chill Factor New Langton Arts - San Francisco, CA Inspiration and Image Sebastopol Center for the Arts - Sebastopol, CA Beliefs, Faith, and Religion Second City Council Gallery - Longbeach, CA SF Open Studios SOMArts Gallery - San Francisco, CA Photography 2000 The Stage Gallery - Merrick, NY Silent Inliquid Zone One Gallery - Philadelphia, PA Sacred Vessels Avenues Art Center - Salt Lake City, UT 1999 Future Shock New Langton Arts - San Francisco, CA Voluptuous Suffering Herbst Pavilion, Fort Mason Center - San Francisco, CA Paul Sack Building Awards Stillights Gallery - San Francisco, CA Open Studios Studios 701 - San Francisco, CA Black and White: Zyzzyva - Diego Rivera Gallery - San Francisco, CA 1998 PhotoSession 98 Gallery at The Pie - Philadelphia, PA Annual Exhibition The Fireside Room - Devon, PA Continuing Diego Rivera Gallery - San Francisco, CA Fragments - Collaborative work with Adam Smith Diego Rivera Gallery - San Francisco, CA Photo '98 SOMAR Gallery - San Francisco, CA 1997 About Time Open Space Gallery - Allentown, PA 1996 International Juried Photography Exhibition The Maryland Federation of Art Gallery - Annapolis, MD Roots Creese Gallery at Drexel University - Philadelphia, PA 1995 Woman Eleanor Holmes Norton Gallery - Washington, DC
Awards, Lectures and Publications
2019 Lecturer – Legacy Planning for Legal & Estate Professionals, Hot-Bed, Philadelphia, PA Lecturer - Legacy Planning for Artists & Collectors, Da Vinci Art Alliance, Philadelphia 2018 Lecturer - Legacy Planning for Artists & Collectors, Da Vinci Art Alliance, Philadelphia 2017 Moderator - Networks Across the Line, NoBa Art Space/Napoleon & Automat, Bala, PA Lecturer - Crafting Successful Applications, DaVinci Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA 2015 Best In Show – New Eyes: Experimental Photography Today, Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Juror Jim Graham The Review Panel – ArtCritical @ Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Panel discussion reviewing Enchanted Forest
2012 Lecturer – Opportunities for Emerging Artists, Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, Wilmington, DE 2011 Co-Author – Catalogue: Robert Frank & Donald Camp, The Berman Museum, Ursinus College, Collegeville, PA Lecturer – Donald E. Camp & Robert Frank, panel, The Berman Museum, Ursiuns College, Collegeville, PA 2010 Lecturer – Emerging To Established, panel, Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ The Ollcott Family Award – The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA 2009 Lecturer - Special Opportunities for Artists, panel, CFEVA, Philadelphia, PA Exhibiting Artist Lecture – Skin Stories, AREA 919, Philadelphia, PA 2008 Guest Lecturer – International Center of Photography, New York, NY Lecturer and Panelist - Artists Equity, Widener University, West Chester, PA 2007 Exhibiting Artist Lecture - University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA Visiting Artist and Critic - Pennsylvania College of Art and Design, Lancaster, PA. Distinguished Artist Lecturer - Doppelganger, Lecture given at Ursinus College.
2004 First Place Award - PhotoAlliance Slide Competition, Award Lecture given at The San Francisco Art Institute 2003 Selected Subject of Biographical Record - editions of Marquis and Madison’s Who’s Who of American Women, Who’s Who of Higher Ed, and Who’s Who of America. 2002 Featured Artist - “Casa do Vaticano” Book: Gráficos Burti Publishers, Brazil, 7th Edition. 1999 Award of Excellence - 19th Annual College Photo Contest: Photographer's Forum Honorable Mention - Paul Sack Building Awards: Paul Sack Collection Zyzzyva - juried publication and exhibition: Zyzzyva Literary Journal: Spring edition 1998 Photo-essay Award, second place - Photo '98 Contest: San Francisco Bay Guardian 1996 Award of Excellence - Art Competition: Manhattan Arts International Magazine First Place Award - Jerusalem 3000 Photography Contest: Jewish Exponent.
Reviews, features, and Articles
2019 Main Line Today, “Meet the Four Female Curators Who Are Reframing the Local Arts Scene,” by Melissa Jacobs, October 2019 issue DonArtNews, “Garden,” by Don Brewer, November 11 Chadds Ford Live, “Art Live: Dream Big,” by Constance McBride, September 11 City Suburban News, “Girl in the Garden: Danger in Paradise, Solo Exhibition by Amie Potsic,” August 7, 2019 2015 Philadelphia Inquirer, “7 Days, Enchanted Forest,” by Michael Harrington, November 15 The ArtBlog, “Enchanted Forest by Amie Potsic at James Oliver Gallery,” November 19 City Suburban News, “Enchanted Forest, A Solo Exhibition by Amie Potsic,” October 10 Uwishunu, “With Art Picks – Top Picks for October, Enchanted Forest,” October 2 DonArtNews, “Enchanted,” September 26 2014 Daily Candy, “Frost,” February 28 Philadelphia Inquirer, “Do This: Glacier, Frost and other Delights,” February 28 DonArtNews, “Frost,” March 21 City Suburban News, “Artists Inspired by Winter at the Schuylkill Center Gallery,” Feb. 12 2012 Philadelphia Inquirer, “Fire and Ice,” June 22 The ArtBlog, “Changing seasons, changing climate in photos and activist works at the Gershman Y,” June 28 Philly Side Arts, “Turn Here at the Gershman Y,” June DonArtNews, “Endangered Seasons: Amie Potsic at the Borowsky Gallery,” July 13 Grid Magazine, “Turn Here at the Gershman Y,” June 11 2011 DoNArtNews, “Lay of the Land,” October 13 Pittsburgh City Paper, “The Commonwealth of Photography,” July 27 Philly Side Arts, “Amie Potsic, Curating Art,” June 27 2010 Philadelphia Inquirer, “10 Friends,” November 5 DoNArtNews, “The Lightroom: Photographs by Amie Potsic,” September 28 Philly 2 Philly, “Philadelphia Artists at Photo612”, April 1, 2010 2009 Philadelphia Inquirer, “New Boundaries,” September 13 City Suburban News, “Women Photographers,” March 4-10 Icon Magazine, “Skin Stories,” May Philadelphia Citypaper, “Scar Trek,” May 19 DonArtNews, “Skin Stories,” April 23 Philadelphia Citypaper, “Arts Pick,” April 16 2008 Philadelphia City Paper, “You’ve Got the Blues,” April 3 2007 Philadelphia City Paper, “Thin Skinned Thick,” Last Chance, December 13 Daily Candy, “Thin Skinned Thick,” Weekend Guide, November 8 Philadelphia Inquirer, “Thin Skinned Thick,” 7 Days, November 4 2007 Philadelphia Weekly, “Come as you scar,” The A List, October 31 2005 Coagula, “iArt: Art and Digital Imaging Technology” vol. 74, May 2004 Art Matters, “Amie Potsic: Scarred,” November 2004 Framing the Questions, U.C. Berkeley, “Marked on the Body” March – April Art Matters, “Grande nonfat triple-shot art,” February The Flagpole, Athens, GA, “Out There,” January 14 2003 San Francisco Chronicle, Amie Potsic Portfolio Feature, December 9 San Francisco Weekly, Night and Day Feature, December 17 - 23 Digital City, Philadelphia, “Amie Potsic: Photography,” September Las Vegas Weekly, “Shutter to Think,” June 26 – July 2 Las Vegas Mercury, “Signs and Visions”, June 19 - 25 2002 San Francisco Art Magazine, “Thin Skinned Thick,” May 2001 Philadelphia City Paper, “Seeing It Their Way,” March 1 1996 Jewish Exponent, “Jerusalem 3000,” May 16 Jewish Exponent, “Schooled in Jewish Themes,” November
Selected Curatorial Projects
2019 Enamored Armor Rowan University Art Gallery, Glassboro, NJ 2018 Decorous Space & Co., Philadelphia, PA Natural Wonder Parke Towne Place & Inliquid, Philadelphia, PA Let’s Connect The Barnes Foundation & Mural Arts Program, Philadelphia, PA Invited Curator, artwork and residency selection Agathe Bouton Retrospective, From One Continent to Another: 20 Years of Printmaking 3rd Street Gallery – Philadelphia, PA 2017 Happily Ever After Main Line Art Center – Haverford, PA Draw the Line Main Line Art Center – Haverford, PA 2016 Panorama 2016: Enlightened Earth Main Line Art Center – Haverford, PA Transformations Main Line Art Center – Haverford, PA 2015 Panorama 2015: Modern Utopias Main Line Art Center – Haverford, PA Tweak of Nature Main Line Art Center – Haverford, PA 2014 Face Value Main Line Art Center – Haverford, PA Imaginary Reality Main Line Art Center – Haverford, PA Humankind Main Line Art Center – Haverford, PA 2013 Urban Pop Main Line Art Center – Haverford, PA 2012 Atmospheric Main Line Art Center – Haverford, PA Visions and Vignettes ArtWorks – Trenton, NJ Thread of Thought: A Fiber Philadelphia 2012 Exhibition The Center for Emerging Visual Artists (CFEVA) – Philadelphia, PA 2011 Recent Works: Jordan Griska & Tim Portlock The Center for Emerging Visual Artists Philadelphia, PA Construct Icebox Project Space, Crane Arts – Philadelphia, PA Embody: Bohyun Yoon Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts, The Center for Emerging Visual Artists – Philadelphia, PA 2010 Material Motion Dalet Gallery – Philadelphia, PA Free Form Rowan University Art Gallery – Philadelphia, PA On The Rise: Inaugural Exhibition The Art Gallery at City Hall – Philadelphia, PA (Co- curated) Selections from Cluster – The Center for Emerging Visual Artists – Philadelphia, PA Sweet Spot: A Philagrafika 2010 and Fiber Philadelphia Exhibition, The Center for Emerging Visual Artists – Philadelphia, PA 2009 Urban Organic Projects Gallery – Philadelphia, PA (Co-curated) Pittsburgh Biennial Selections Center for Emerging Visual Artists – Philadelphia, PA 2008 Perspectives Icebox Project Space, Crane Arts – Philadelphia, PA Emerging to Established: 25 Years of the Center for Emerging Visual Artists, The Philadelphia Museum of Art – Philadelphia, PA Pittsburgh Selections The Center for Emerging Visual Artists – Philadelphia, PA Live With It Premier PhotoWest Gallery – Philadelphia, PA (Co-curated) Piece Process – Every Wall Shall Fall Pomegranate Gallery - New York, NY 2007 Natural Selection Maryland Art Place – Baltimore, PA
Collections
The Art Park, Rhodes Greece The Museum of New Art, Detroit, Michigan The Collection of Julio Andery, Sao Paolo, Brazil The Collection of Maida Milone, Villanova, PA Private Collection, Philadelphia, PA Private Collection, San Francisco, CA Private Collection, Los Angeles, CA
Selected Professional Appointments
Amie Potsic Art Advisory, LLC – Berwyn, PA (2018 – present) CEO & Principal Main Line Art Center – Haverford, PA (2012 – 2017) Executive Director & Chief Curator The Center for Emerging Visual Artists – Philadelphia, PA (2007 – 2012) Director & Curator, Career Development Program Gallery 339 – Philadelphia, PA (2006 – 2007) Director San Francisco Art Institute - San Francisco, CA (1999 - 2005) Visiting Faculty, ACE Faculty, Pre-College Faculty - Photography Instructor University of California, Berkeley – Berkeley, CA (2001 - 2004) Adjunct Faculty, Extension Faculty – Photography Instructor Ohlone College – Fremont, CA (2003 - 2004) Adjunct Faculty - Photography Instructor
Juror Appointments, Portfolio Reviews & Advisory Committees
Chair, Art In City Hall Advisory Board – Office of Arts and Culture, City of Philadelphia, PA (2012-pres) Juror – Philly Reveal: Photography– Philadelphia’s City Hall, Philadelphia, PA (2019) Juror – Philadelphia Sculptors Present – Philadelphia’s City Hall, Philadelphia, PA (2018) Juror – Photography Exhibition – Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton Township, NJ (2017) Juror – Fine Art Exhibition featuring Artists with Disabilities – Art Ability, Malvern, PA (2017) Juror – Edgemont Views – Beauty Gallery, Newtown Squre, PA (2017) Juror - Fine Art Exhibition – Perkins Center for the Arts, Moorestown, NJ (2016) Juror - Photography Competition – Eastern State Penitentiary, Philadelphia, PA (2015) Media Arts Curriculum Advisory Board – Middlesex County College, Edison, NJ (2009 – present) Auction Committee Member – Inliquid.com, Philadelphia, PA (2007 – present) Juror – Davinci Art Alliance, “Some Like it Hot,” Philadelphia, PA (2014) Community Outreach Taskforce Advisor – Philadelphia Cultural Alliance, Philadelphia, PA (2011) Artistic Advisory Board Member - Fiber Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA (2011 - 2012) Advisory Board Member – Philly Photo Day, Philadelphia Photographic Art Center (2011) Juror – Smithville Annex Gallery Annual Fine Art Exhibition, Burlington County, NJ (2011) Juror – VSA: Emerging Artists with Disabilities Annual Award, Washington, DC (2011) Juror - YEA Emerging Artist Exhibition, NJ Council on the Arts (2010) Portfolio Reviewer – Society of Photographic Education National Conference, Philadelphia, PA (2009) Portfolio Reviewer - Society for Photographic Education Conference, University of Pennsylvania (2007) Portfolio Reviewer - The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA (2007) Marketing Advisory Committee Member – Philagrafika, Philadelphia, PA (2007-2008) Juror - Burlington County Art Center’s Annual Photography Exhibition, Burlington County, NJ (2007) Portfolio Reviewer - Critical Mass (2007)
Education
Appraisers Association of America – New York, NY CASP – Comprehensive Appraisal Studies Program: Certificate May 2019 USPAP – Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice - Compliant: February 2019
Designing Leadership – Philadelphia, PA Executive Development Program, Arts & Business Council of Philadelphia: April 2017
National Arts Strategies– Philadelphia, PA Future Leadership Fellowship: 2009 Awarded full scholarship
San Francisco Art Institute - San Francisco, CA MFA Photography: May 1999
University of the Arts - Philadelphia, PA Photography Studies: January - May 1996
Corcoran School of Art - Washington, DC Photography Studies: January - May 1994
Indiana University - Bloomington, IN BA Photojournalism and English Literature May 1993, Distinguished Honors Honors: Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society Sigma Eta Phi Honor Society Golden Key Honor Society
Universidád Complutense de Madríd - Madríd, Spain Certificate of Study: 1992 C O N T A C T
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