AMY STEVENS: CONFECTIONS
Saturday, June 30th, 2007Saturday, June 30 from 5-9 PM Please join Mew Gallery for our upcoming exhibit: Confections: Photography by Amy Stevens. The opening reception is on June 30, 2007 at 906 Christian Street Philadelphia, PA 19147 Phone: 215.625.2424. Cocktails and hobnobbing from 5 to 9 p.m. Exhibit will run until August 10, 2007.
Confections started as a celebration of Amy Stevens’ 30th birthday and soon became an affirmation of her fetish for color and her longtime obsession with cake imagery. Her interest in the current resurgence of do-it yourself domesticity has fueled this project of making confectionary creations and photographing them to a whole other level.
Amy Stevens grew up in the Southwestern United States in Arizona and New Mexico. She earned her BFA in Photography and a certificate in Women’s Studies from Arizona State University and after 4 years in Seattle, she moved east for graduate school where she earned her MFA from Tyler School of Art. Stevens has shown her work in group and solo shows in Portland, Seattle, Cleveland, Boston, Providence, Albuquerque, Syracuse and Chattanooga, Michigan and Montreal. She received Honorable Mention in Photo Review’s 2005 National Competition and is currently a fellow in the competitive Career Development Program with The Center for Emerging Visual Artists in Philadelphia. In the past year, her work has been mentioned and published in BUCKS Magazine, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia City Paper and The News Journal of Wilmington, Delaware. Her 2007 exhibition schedule includes group shows at the Delaware Art Museum, The Urban Institute for Contemporary Art, Tower Gallery and The Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit as well as solo shows with In Liquid at the Crane Arts Building, The Philadelphia International Airport, here at Mew Gallery and the Center for Emerging Visual Artists.
