Amy Metier ///
Born ///
Laramie, WY
Blue Silo Studio ///
Since 2018
Education ///
• BFA, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
• MFA, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
Medium ///
Painting, Drawing, Printmaking, Mixed Media
What’s amazing is how different Amy’s studio looks from what was formerly Mark Friday’s space. Amy came to this space by being in the building downstairs in Studio #101A (now Ron Zito’s studio). Yeah, there’s a lot of movement in this building. The familiar faces create a sense of community and camaraderie. Amy is a seasoned painter who primarily paints abstractly using a handful of mediums to achieve her deeply colorful surfaces. She paints really big, and this studio is a better fit for her large canvases. Being on the second floor of this two-story building, the ceiling is so high you sometimes forget it’s there. When you enter Amy’s studio you are met with a row of bookshelves, and for those who love art books, it’s a treasure hunt. Her influences range from figurative masters like Lucian Freud to much more non-representational painters such as Joan Michel. These books happen to be out near her paint table, as a reference or maybe, just for inspiration. Amy’s work is bold with her brushwork providing shapes of color that steer mostly to a monochromatic side. She has a custom art storage system for her many large and small paintings. The wall of storage is the only division that splits the space, making for a nice room divider. Amy’s move from downstairs to this upstairs space gives her more ceiling height and much wanted light. Like her previous studio, the natural light comes in from the West, but now there’s just so much more of it that washes in and lays upon her large colorful paintings. The largest paintings sit sturdily on easels she had custom-built for this scale of work. The excitement that comes when an artist first moves into a new studio is unlike anything else. Often the satisfaction of landing a great studio with a great community is equal to finding your home. As Amy prepares for a solo show of entirely new work, she admits some days she spends more time here in her studio than in her Boulder home.
Smoke Signals ///