Amy Finkbeiner
Amy Finkbeiner
Acting
Live Performance Works
I Have Had An Experience: Rituals, Tasks, and Documentations
Soundtracks
A Primer of Useful Flora, Fauna, and Talismans
Blood Requiem / Period Piece
Self Portraits
Making Trouble: a full confession--I've fucked up
Stigmata and Ritual Markings
Visual Art and Performance Art CV
My Little Book of Saints
Installation Images
Shrines and Relics
Incantations, Benedictions, and Curses
Ecstatic Visions and Wicked Dreams
News, Projects, and Upcoming Exhibitions
Bibliography
Contact
"I'm done hoping. Work is Sacred."
2011
Graphite, paper, fabric, wood, gold leaf, shorn hair, incense, candles
Dimensions variable
Window installation of relics and ritual objects. This is an homage to Pina Bausch.
"I'm done hoping. Work is Sacred."
2011
Drawing viewed through window with reflections
Window installation of relics and ritual objects. This is an homage to Pina Bausch.
Ritual Offering in "I'm done hoping. Work is Sacred."
2011
Fabric, wood, gold leaf, shorn hair, incense, candles
Dimensions variable
Window installation of relics and ritual objects. This is an homage to Pina Bausch.
Ritual Offering in "I'm done hoping. Work is Sacred."
2011
Window installation of relics and ritual objects. This is an homage to Pina Bausch.
Ritual Offering in "I'm done hoping. Work is Sacred."
2011
Window installation of relics and ritual objects. This is an homage to Pina Bausch.
Ritual Offering in "I'm done hoping. Work is Sacred."
2011
Window installation of relics and ritual objects. This is an homage to Pina Bausch.
Wall painting, "I'm done hoping. Work is Sacred."
2011
Window installation of relics and ritual objects. This is an homage to Pina Bausch.
Ritual Offering in "I'm done hoping. Work is Sacred."
2011
Window installation of relics and ritual objects. This is an homage to Pina Bausch.
Ritual Offering in "I'm done hoping. Work is Sacred."
2011
Window installation of relics and ritual objects. This is an homage to Pina Bausch.
Ritual performance: Inserting a single hair into wax, using a needle.
2010
Ritual performance: Hairs inserted into flesh-colored wax.
2010
Hair, wax, and oil paint
Installation of Relics in Vitrine, "Secrets are Impossible here"
Sculptures, found objects, photos, drawings, incense, dried flowers, and other mixed media
Vitrine Installation, Wilson Hall Entrance, Washington and Lee University, October 2009
Alcove and Vitrines, "Secrets are Impossible here"
Sculptures, found objects, photos, drawings, incense, dried flowers, and other mixed media
Installation in Alcove and Vitrines, Wilson Hall Entrance, Washington and Lee University, October 2009
Vitrine Installation, "Secrets are Impossible here"
Sculptures, found objects, photos, drawings, incense, and other mixed media
Installation in Alcove and Vitrines, Wilson Hall Entrance, Washington and Lee University, October 2009
Detail of Vitrine with Offering of flowers and incense, "Secrets are Impossible here"
Sculptures, found objects, photos, drawings, incense, dried flowers, and other mixed media
Vitrine Installation, Wilson Hall Entrance, Washington and Lee University, October 2009
Detail of Vitrine with Blood Droplets, "Secrets are Impossible here"
Glazed porcelain
Vitrine Installation, Wilson Hall Entrance, Washington and Lee University, October 2009
Detail of Vitrine with Fingerbones, Prepuces, Polaroid and Incense Offering, "Secrets are Impossible here"
Glazed Stoneware, Polaroid, and incense
Vitrine Installation, Wilson Hall Entrance, Washington and Lee University, October 2009
Detail of Vitrine with Shell, "Secrets are Impossible here"
Vitrine Installation, Wilson Hall Entrance, Washington and Lee University, October 2009
Detail of Vitrine with Vulvas, "Secrets are Impossible here"
Vitrine Installation, Wilson Hall Entrance, Washington and Lee University, October 2009
Installation of drawings, sculptures, and objects, "Secrets are Impossible here"
Wilson Hall Entrance, Washington and Lee University, October 2009
"It is necessary to forget in order to go on living." from "Secrets are Impossible here"
2000 - 2009
Hair and wax on paper
5 x 7 feet
Detail from installation at Wilson Hall Entrance, Washington and Lee, 2009
Detail from "It is necessary to forget in order to go on living." from "Secrets are Impossible here"
2000 - 2009
Hair and wax on paper
5 x 7 feet
Detail from installation at Wilson Hall Entrance, Washington and Lee, 2009
Close-up detail from "It is necessary to forget in order to go on living." from "Secrets are Impossible here"
2000 - 2009
Hair and wax on paper
5 x 7 feet
Detail from installation at Wilson Hall Entrance, Washington and Lee, 2009
Cat-O-Nine-Tails, "Secrets are Impossible here"
Hair, wax, wood
Handle, 3 inches
Detail from Wilson Hall Entrance, Washington and Lee University, October 2009
Drawings and objects at Wilson Hall Atrium, Washington and Lee University, October 2009
Icon of Marianne Faithfull
Detail from drawings and objects at Washington and Lee, Wilson Hall Atrium, October 2009
Wall drawing, Wilson Hall Entrance, Washington and Lee University, October 2009