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.
A painting in Amy Ione’s perceptual series.
2020. Original painting on archival paper.
In white frame, with mat and plexiglass. Ink and acrylic. Painting measures 3.75×6 inches.
Matted and framed measurement is 8x10x.75 inches. (#31244)
A small painting in the artist’s perceptual studies series of paintings.
Like Flags and Freedom, this work was inspired by all the people in Berkeley, California waving flags on street corners after Joe Biden won the 2020 election in the United States.
As a symbolic flag, this painting fits within a longer tradition.
The canvas sketch measures 12x9x.5 inches. It is unframed with partially painted sides and presents varying sized pink and purple diamonds, with various circles inside floating over a diagonal bar with a mixture of teal, black, and white. Incised lines in the back ground.
The unsigned paper sketch, on heavy acrylic paper, has three rows of diamonds and five columns on top of them on airbrushed paper. The shapes of the diamonds vary, and they are attached to one another, with circles and ellipses inside each. The archival acrylic paper measures 11.5×9 inches.
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Amy Ione
Title: Sketch (36037) and Sketch (36037a)
Date: 2025
Medium: Golden acrylic, colored pencil, ink, airbrush
Dimensions: Canvas: 12x9x.5 (unframed with partially painted sides); Paper: 11.5×9 inches (unframed)
Canvas sketch signed on edge; paper unsigned: ________
Catalog Number: 36037
The inspiration for this medley of three blue circles was a cup and saucer. Its design is accentuated by the way the textured paint evokes clay structures. How the shades of blue and white come together perceptually adds a spatial depth that teases the viewer’s experience of it.
Continue reading “Study: 3 Blue Circles with Texture”
Slight shifts in hue and value suggest land, distance and atmosphere. The work’s restraint and limited palette place the emphasis on perception, tone, and spatial ambiguity rather than narrative or detailed representation. Green evokes fertile landscapes and the fragility of natural environments.
Amy Ione
Title: Sketch (35661)
Date: (2024)
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: Measures 10x8x.75 inches.
Unsigned:
Catalog Number: 35661 Continue reading “Sketch (35661) (2024)”
One of three cube studies by Amy Ione that evoke a cube using background cues.
One of three cube studies by Amy Ione that evoke a cube using background cues.
One of three cube studies by Amy Ione that evoke a cube using background cues.
Continue reading “Perception Study: 3D Cube Study #2 (2021)”
Homage to Sol LeWitt (2015) offers an homage to Sol LeWitt’s legacy of conceptual rigor and geometric clarity. The interplay of oil and pencil creates a dialogue between painterly mark making and linear precision, echoing LeWitt’s investigations of structure while asserting my own interest in perception, the power of visual syntax, and artistic process. Continue reading “Homage to Sol LeWitt (2015)”
