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
Untitled (Hair Drawing 4) with Hairball
2010
Hair and wax on paper
30 x 44 inches
"Holi Patti"
2009
Pencil on paper, wood, clay, acrylic, and candles
24 x 32 inches
Offering #2
2010
Hair and acetate
7 x 6 inches
"Within My Breast"
1999-2009
Wax, found wood, tulle, seashells, and incense
10 x 12 inches
Relics of First Recorded Stigmata Incident, May 2005: Blood-stained Cloth
2005
Blood on cotton cloth
9 x 9 inches
Relics of First Recorded Stigmata Incident, May 2005 (#1)
2005
Band-Aids, cotton pads, blood
Dimensions variable
Sacred Heart
2007-09
Sculpey, acrylic, and vinyl on wall
Heart: 4 x 7 inches
"I wore the mask until it became my face."
2006-09
Clay, chains, glazed stoneware, acrylic, and pencil on wall
Heart: 8 x 6 inches; installation dimensions variable
"Golden Hand"
2007
Plaster, Sculpey, acrylic, and chains
Height: 10 inches
Shrine to Self
2009
Beeswax, clay, nail polish, gold leaf, and dried flowers
Dimensions variable
Relics of First Recorded Stigmata Incident, 2005 (#2)
2005
Band-Aids, cotton pads, blood
Dimensions variable
"Angel Wing"
2007
Pencil and driftwood on wall
10 x 14 inches
"Sculpture takes on the physicality of emotion."
2000-2008
Crocheted hair and pencil on wall
Dimensions variable
"You calm the storms of fortune and stop the cruel courses of the stars."
1987 - 2009
Various talismans, candles, incense, flowers, mixed media
Dimensions variable and continually expanding
"My Sugar Sweet My Honey Sweet Love..."
2004-07
Pencil, cellophane, and skin on wall
Dimensions variable
Relics of First Recorded Stigmata Incident, 2005 (#4)
2005
Band-Aids, gauze, blood
Dimensions variable
Stigmata Shrine
2005 - 2009
Sculpey, acrylic paint, nail polish, dried flowers, shells, and acorns
Dimensions variable
"Maidenhood, you remain within the royal chamber..."
2006
White stoneware
Height: 10 inches