JUDGE: Amy Vidra
Amy Vidra received her BFA from The Cleveland Institute of Art in Photography but always had a passion for painting. The photographic frame has influenced her abstract compositions and attention to details. She is an award-winning abstract painter whose work has been in exhibitions throughout the country and internationally in Canada. Her work is in several private collections across the US and France.
'I paint the process of the every day, the questions and the answers, the memories, and the snapshots in time.
I'm inspired by the way memories unfold and morph over time, the snapshots of our mind, the things we remember, the things we don't.
It's about this process and the unraveling of those moments. It's the way I remember and transform that moment into a new narrative now influenced by the present.
The memories, stories, and parts of myself that I think are hilarious, unique, or just like everyone else. The similarities, differences, and contradictions. The stories we tell ourselves. Maybe the ones we tell that aren’t true, the ones that we’ve told a thousand times, that in memory don’t have a clear beginning, middle, or end. Or the questions that continue no matter how many answers we get. The vulnerability, the authenticity, the transparency.
I use bold, saturated color, paired with soft transparency, hard lines and soft edges, to combine the memories of time and place into an abstract narrative. The memories and moments often unfold in process and reveal themselves while creating. It’s my process of remembering, forgetting, or letting go."