Amanda Schroer
Print exploration

Mandee Schroer is an American artist who carried out a residency in ‘ace during the month of July 2011.

Schroer explored and investigated the city to give shape and meaning to its landscapes born from our daily life, the greengrocer business fronts, were a stimulus that gave rise to a series of collage and prints using photolithography and chiné colle.

ARTIST’S STATEMENT

 I find inspiration in the spontaneous, the unintentional, and the unconsciousness of the everyday. The small urban landscapes that reside on the balconies of homes and buildings, the empty vegetable crates piled high on the sidewalks, or the densely arranged kiosks on the corners of the Buenos Aires Avenues are involuntary, yet so perfect, and hard for me to ignore. I see these “perfect sculptures”, through the lens of my camera, as a tourist and as an artist.

I enjoy taking the floating scraps of ideas and materials and playing matchmaker with them, sometimes with harmonious intent and others with plain sadistic curiosity. The body of work at ‘ace begins with photographs and the photo-litho process, and then combined with multi-printmaking and non-printmaking techniques and mediums.

Keeping with the idea of the spontaneous, the unintentional, and the unconscious, the additional mixed media work should compliment yet conflict with the unpretentious nature of the of the city’s perfect sculptures.