This section showcases unfinished work, sketches, and odds and ends. Since the purpose of this website is to archive Amy Ione’s work from the 1970s to the present, both successful and less successful work is displayed. For more information about any of the works, click on the caption below the painting or send an email.
This work is a continuation of my investigations into the correspondences among color, form, and visual dynamic in terms of their psychological and perceptual effects/affects. Using an intuitive and poetic approach, the work aimed to formulate an abstract language which would cause strong emotions in the same way music does.
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Amy Ione
Title: Homage to Diebenkorn Sketch
Date: 2003
Medium: Oil on canvas board
Dimensions: 6×9 inches
Unsigned
Catalog Number: Diebenkorn sketch
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Begun in the early 2020s, when people were increasingly talking about AI. The AI concept was an appealing starting point because the AI painting of Amy Ione is not at all based on artificial intelligence. Continue reading “Unfinished: About AI (Amy Ione)”
Amy Ione
Title: Sketch (35665)
Date: 2024
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 10 x 8 x 0.75 inches (unframed)
Unsigned
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This unfinished circle grid documents my process.
Upon completion, the work was titled Gradations and Imperfections, and it was slanted to add to its resonance. The completed piece is here.
This unfinished composition on Masonite offers a glimpse of my painting process. The work was begun before I began my Neuroscience and Art book, which was published in 2024. This piece was set aside during the writing process and still awaits completion.
Circles—shapes associated with harmony and balance—form a central element of my visual vocabulary. While not the case here, at least not in this point of the image’s creation, in many of my works circles appear alongside ellipses. This is unsurprising given that an ellipse can be described as an elongated circle. In other words, the ellipse shape generalizes a circle, which is a special case of an ellipse. Continue reading “Unfinished Circles”
This blue, barren painting emphasizes atmosphere rather than vegetation or humanity. Dense, rather than airy, the suggestion of a thick atmospheric envelope evokes humidity and haze. These kinds of visual conditions are increasingly associated with climate change and warming air systems.
Amy Ione
Title: Still Life Sketch (35767)
Date: 2022
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 8 x 6 x 0.75 inches (unframed)
Unsigned
Catalog Number: 35767
A small perceptual study.
Artist: Amy Ione
Title: Study 33431
Date: 2022
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 8×10 inches
Signed on back
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Cube Study with Color Gradations is a compact yet deeply resonant sketch on paper showing experiments with geometry, perception, and the subtle power of color transitions. Initially, the composition appears to present a simple “cube study” but, as the title denotes, it is not just an exercise in form. The emphasis is on how nuanced gradations of hue can elevate a piece into a reflection on spatial ambiguity, visual rhythm, and the interplay between structure and sensation. Continue reading “Cube Study with Color Gradations Sketch (2021)”