Amanda Hood ,Nightbird, acrylic on panel, mixed media, 36" x 38", 2014
Amanda Hood ,Nightbird, acrylic on panel, mixed media, 36" x 38", 2014
Amanda Hood ,Nightbird, acrylic on panel, mixed media, 36" x 38", 2014
Amanda Hood ,Nightbird, acrylic on panel, mixed media, 36" x 38", 2014
Amanda Hood ,Nightbird, acrylic on panel, mixed media, 36" x 38", 2014
Amanda Hood ,Nightbird, acrylic on panel, mixed media, 36" x 38", 2014

Amanda Hood ,Nightbird, acrylic on panel, mixed media, 36" x 38", 2014

$3,250.00

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.

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 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 Pavillion 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