Amy Stevens

Bio: Amy Stevens grew up in Arizona and New Mexico. She earned a BFA in Photography and a certificate in Women’s Studies from Arizona State University and a MFA in Photography from Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia.

Stevens has participated in both group and solo shows in Seattle, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Boston, Los Angeles, Chicago, Montreal, Toronto, Ireland and China. Stevens has notably shown in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Delaware Art Museum, Photo LA, Photographic Center Northwest, Philadelphia International Airport, Maryland Art Place, The Center for Photography at Woodstock and Jen Bekman Gallery in New York. Amy’s work is part of the permanent photography collection at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston.

In the summer of 2010, Stevens completed an artist residency program in Roscommon, Ireland where she worked in a bakery, resulting in a new series of work, a group show and a publication.

Statement: The Confections photographic series began as a response to my 30th birthday. It was a celebration of birthdays, color, pattern and obsessive absurdity. My original idea was to bake 30 birthday cakes for myself and photograph them. I ordered a cake decorating kit online and watched an instructional video. When I quickly discovered my cakes were never going to look like the ones in the video, I decided to leave them in their exuberantly imperfect states. In the course of eight years, this series evolved into more of a humorous, feminist, conversation on life and our struggles for perfection.

Website: www.amystevensart.com