This collection of images utilizes a combination of still lifes and performative acts to examine both the power and deception of memory. Memory, like photography, is a strange likeness in the shape of the original. My photographs start with the recollection of a specific memory of family which warps into a visual representation. These echoes of the original memories embrace a surreal intimacy through the use of family photographs, inherited objects, and my own body.
Bio:
Amy Herman is an artist based in Charlotte, North Carolina. She received her MFA in Photography from Columbia College Chicago, and her BFA in Fine Art from Michigan State University. Her photographs have been shown on the international level and are included in the permanent collections of the Kiyosota Museum of Photography, Cassilhaus, and The Museum of Fine Arts Houston. She is the Co-Founder of Goodyear Arts, an artist-run residency program.
