This section showcases works on paper. 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.
Perceptual Study: Circles and Ellipses Compete with a Red/Pink Background (Original Watercolor and Ink Painting on Paper by Amy Ione). 2009
Original watercolor and ink painting on paper. Evocative study using black, shades of red/pink, and white. Paper measures 14×11 inches.
Ink on painted paper. Some light blue prismacolor in various circles. Paper retains some pink residue surrounding the image from tape used as a border while painting.
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Amy Ione
Title: Reflections Grid
Date: 1988
Medium: Liquid acrylic and ink on archival watercolor paper
Dimensions: 20×28 inches
Unsigned
Catalog Number: 35669
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This compact painting was created with ink and liquid acrylic. It presents a sense of a world in which all things seem as if they are not appearing properly in terms of perceptual expectations.
In the context of relativity theory, one could postulate that it refers to a situation where expected outcomes or measurements are not aligning with theoretical predictions.
Onward marked a return to my painting practice in 1980 after a year devoted to writing an unpublished novel.
The central figure’s advance is accompanied by repeated circular vignettes that imply different perspectives on — and approaches to — my creativity. In some sense, these various-sized motifs evoke my past, and my resumption forward as a growing painter. Therefore, the central figure represents the present moment.
This self-portrait in pastel, now lost, was my vision of myself as an emerging artist in 1978.
This painting includes a number of visual illusions such as the Rubin vase (the face/vase) pattern on the borders.
Title written at bottom, with the artist’s initials and the date.
Continue reading “Reflections on Art, Escher, and Pacific Grove (1985)”
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Amy Ione
Title: Future Past
Date: 2002
Medium: Ink on Archival Paper
Dimensions: 24 x 26 inches (unframed)
Medium: Ink On Paper
Signed
Based on a Roman pavement image.
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Amy Ione
Title: Roman Pavement
Date: 2001
Medium: Oil on paper
Dimensions: 36 x 18 inches
Unsigned
Catalog Number: 35737
The self-portrait is based on Self-Portrait with Two Circles by the Dutch artist Rembrandt, painted c. 1665–1669. The signature is based on Albrecht Durer’s monogram.
Continue reading “Homage to Rembrandt with a nod to Durer (Self-Portrait) (2016)”