Amanda Marchand
Hart's Tongue, from the series "The World is Astonishing with You in It: 21st Century Field Guide to the Birds, Ferns and Wildflowers," 2019
Estimated Value: $2,000

Archival pigment print, hand cut and re-assembled; 4 panels; Kodak Polyfiber FD FB
18.5 x 15 inches
Unframed
Edition 2/3
Signed, verso
Donated by the artist, courtesy of Traywick Contemporary.

This piece is from the artist’s recent series of collaged lumen prints, a camera-less process made with black and white photo papers which turn a different latent color depending on paper brand and type.

Using actual vintage books -- North American Field Guides to birds, ferns and wildflowers -- she marks/exposes the paper, making one mark per panel. She hand cuts the papers and re-assembles them into shapes and patterns, in image variations of 3.

Each title references a species of bird, fern or wildflower that is endangered or disappearing. The work has been completed over the last two years at various artist residencies, out of doors, in nature -- with a slow, meditative process of "marking the papers in sunlight with time.”

About the Artist:
Amanda Marchand

A native of Montreal, Amanda Marchand currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. She received her MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2001, followed by a Graduate Fellowship Residency at the Headlands Center for the Arts in 2002. Marchand is a MacDowell Colony Fellow (Petersborough, NH) and has been awarded residencies at the Hermitage Artist Retreat, FL; the Studios at MASS MoCA; The Bakery Photo Collective, ME; and Arteles Creative Center in Finland. She recently completed a large-scale permanent installation at the MUHC Glen Hospital in Montreal. Known for both her creative writing as well as her art, Marchand has created several award-winning artist books to accompany each photographic series. Her work has been exhibited at the Griffin Museum of Photography (NM); The Center for Fine Art Photography (CO); George Eastman House (NY); San Jose Museum of Art (CA); Turner Contemporary (UK); Datz Museum (Korea); Center for Photographic Arts (NM); and Traywick Contemporary (CA).

Website: traywick.com
Instagram: @amandabethmarchand | @ traywickcontemporary