Amanda Hood is an artist and Visiting Assistant Professor at East Tennessee State University, with an MFA in Integrated Visual Art from Iowa State University, and BFA from Pittsburg State University. Amanda’s paintings and prints have been exhibited nationally and internationally in venues such as the Gallery of the International Pavilion in Ulsan, Korea, and the Evansville Museum in Indiana. Raised in the Midwest, her work often references the regional landscape and draws heavily upon the traditions of Romanticism and the Sublime.
The economic collapse of 2008 left many individuals across age and class demographics grappling to make ends meet, and adapt to the changing world around them. Global economies saw the illusion of safety and security shattered, and symbols of childhood and community transformed. Using landscape and atmosphere as metaphor, my paintings investigate the idea of a personal and collective loss of innocence
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Using landscape and atmosphere as metaphor, my paintings investigate the idea of a personal and collective loss of innocence. Familiar landscapes are depicted in stages of burning and destruction, and imagery shifts between brutal, uncontrollable natural force, and subtle indications of human intervention. Smoke is transformed into a physical body, and layers of light and haze obscure information. Capturing moments of stillness in scenes that are often churning and visceral, a sublime tension is created between beauty and horror, tragedy and hope.
Global economies saw the illusion of safety and security shattered, and symbols of childhood and community transformed. Using landscape and atmosphere as metaphor, my paintings investigate the idea of a personal and collective loss of innocence. Familiar landscapes are depicted in stages of burning and destruction, and imagery shifts between brutal, uncontrollable natural force, and subtle indications of human intervention.
Using landscape and atmosphere as metaphor, my paintings investigate the idea of a personal and collective loss of innocence. Familiar landscapes are depicted in stages of burning and destruction, and imagery shifts between brutal, uncontrollable natural force, and subtle indications of human intervention. Smoke is transformed into a physical body, and layers of light and haze obscure information.
Amanda Hood creates paintings that portray nature and landscapes under duress. Fire, smoke, haze, pastel color, muted tones, with yellows and reds as fire and greys and pinks as haze. The paint drips down as though the canvas is wet from the rain with the impression of a rain-soaked landscape.
The economic collapse of 2008 left many individuals across age and class demographics grappling to make ends meet, and adapt to the changing world around them. Global economies saw the illusion of safety and security shattered, and symbols of childhood and community transformed. Using landscape and atmosphere as metaphors, my paintings investigate the idea of a personal and collective loss of innocence. Familiar landscapes are depicted in stages of burning and destruction, and imagery shifts between brutal, uncontrollable natural force, and subtle indications of human intervention. Smoke is transformed into a physical body, and layers of light and haze obscure information.
Amanda Hood creates paintings that portray nature and landscapes under duress. Fire, smoke, haze, pastel color, muted tones, with yellows and reds as fire and greys and pinks as haze. The paint drips down as though the canvas is wet from the rain with the impression of a rain-soaked landscape.
The economic collapse of 2008 left many individuals across age and class demographics grappling to make ends meet, and adapt to the changing world around them. Global economies saw the illusion of safety and security shattered, and symbols of childhood and community transformed. Using landscape and atmosphere as metaphor, my paintings investigate the idea of a personal and collective loss of innocence. Familiar landscapes are depicted in stages of burning and destruction, and imagery shifts between brutal, uncontrollable natural force, and subtle indications of human intervention. Smoke is transformed into a physical body, and layers of light and haze obscure information. Capturing moments of stillness in scenes that are often churning and visceral, a sublime tension is created between beauty and horror, tragedy and hope.