Artist Amy Baur

16 October - Amy Baur
Mixed Media Artist

On October 16 at 2:30 pm, artist Amy Baur will give a public lecture in the conference room of Chester College of New England's Wadleigh Library. Baur is a visiting artist, part of the college's Visiting Artist Lecture Series.

Amy Baur was born in 1959 and grew up in the Midwest. After college, she moved to Alaska and spent nearly ten years there. After graduate school, at the University of Illinois, Champagne, she moved to Michigan. She and her husband
have a 9-year-old son. Amy runs a company, IN PLAIN SIGHT ART, which uses new digital printmaking technology for ceramics and glass.



COMPASS ROSE interviews Amy Baur

Compass Rose: Many of your works use geometric shapes and clean lines combined with the fluidity of nature, where do you find inspiration? 


Amy Baur: From a slight obsession with the horizon line—noting the curvature of the earth and thinking about relationship between balance and imbalance. 


CR: How important is it for your work to be permanent? 


Baur: In my studio work, I'm not at all interested in permanence. In fact, I often work with non-archival materials such as shoe polish, wax and carbon paper and I like to watch how these are malleable with humidity, temperature and time. For the public works, I GREATLY appreciate that we have now come up with a process that makes a photograph impervious to dust, scratches and UV light.

CR: Is there a satisfaction to leaving behind a permanent piece of yourself?

Baur: Once a piece of work leaves my studio, is on view in a gallery or is purchased I let it go. I don't really see it as mine any longer. So I would not say it is "a piece of myself" but yes a good amount of satisfaction occurs that there is something out there that will cause someone to pause, really look and maybe relate to. (more)