Thursday evening I attended a reception for artist Amy Evans at Kiehl’s. Her brightly colored paintings on wood are on indefinite display. Her work is unusual. Considered a surrealist she strives to document moments in time, mostly from her imagination and beginning with a specific object such as a vintage package. When the package or product is rendered in combination with other seemingly mundane objects such as bobby pins, combs, fabrics, or jewelry they are transformed into portraits, illustrating a woman who is part of the artist’s narrative. And while the paintings are “surrealist-inspired” Amy is represented by Koelsch Gallery, Houston’s most …continue reading

Of all the young up-and-coming artists I have seen in recent years, Amy Guidry is one of the most auspicious. A resident of Lafayette, Louisiana, this artist exhibits in galleries and museums across the USA. Her work has been described as surrealism, but I think that categorization alone is inadequate. Surrealism has become a blanket term for a clever painting with a tricky composition. I have seen it written that surrealism seeks to resolve contradictory conditions between dream and reality; and while Guidry’s paintings often seem quite dreamlike, they are indeed more a statement of her reality than her dreams. …continue reading