Bio
Currier was born in Morristown, TN, a small town north of Knoxville. Morristown has the distinction of being the home of Davy Crocket’s family in 1794. Davy was her hero as a child – his deep connection to nature, and his independence. Perhaps he planted a seed in her that grew into a reverence for the natural world – its intricate and ingenious designs inform her work. Currier’s awareness of its potential to reveal our truest selves has become an aesthetic cornerstone. The imagery she creates is a visual bridge to this desire for connection and balance.
The wood assemblages are an extension of her intent to create an object that is laden with a pre-linguitic essence. She believes wood is the perfect material to embrace and condense the ‘stream of time’, as it is heavy with its own history. By carving and building a universal form, Currier can tap into and channel the true silence that once existed.
TOPAmelia Currier: Education and Honors
B.F.A. Printmaking, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
Boston Museum School of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Instituto Allende, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
Università degli Studi della Tusia, Viterbo, Italy
Best in Wood Media Award – Octagonal: The All Media Show, Octagon Center for the Arts, Ames, IA, 2022
Honorable Mention- Scarab Club Gold Medal Show, Detroit, MI 2020
Featured Artist, R&F Handmade Paints, July- August, 2013
Proclamation of Excellence, Nevada Senate, 2013
Amelia Currier: Selected Exhibitions
SOLO
Hitsuzendo, Healthspan Community Gallery, Grosse Pointe Farms, MI, 2021
Hydroglyphs, Nevada Fine Arts Gallery, Reno, NV, 2020
Glyphs and Houses, CCAI, Carson City, NV, 2016
Cave Translations, UNR Gallery, Reno, NV, 2015
Late Blooms, The Vision Place Gallery, Reno, NV, 2014
Oasis, College Gallery, Western Nevada College, NV, 2013
New Works on Paper, Vine Street Gallery, Reno, NV, 2013
Nevada Jewels: Prints & Collages, Southside Cultural Center, Reno, NV, 2009
Collages & Etchings: Beyond Landscape, Quaker Meeting House, Reno, NV, 2009
Silent Poetry, The Vision Place Gallery, Reno, NV, 2008
GROUP
Detroit Artist Market, off site invitational exhibit, David Whitney Bldg., Detroit, MI, 2022
Introspection, The Contemporary, Watersmeet, MI, 2022
Gilda Snowden Memorial Exhibition, Scarab Club, Detroit, MI, 2022
Octagonal: The All Media Show, Octagon Center for the Arts, Ames, IA,
Wood Media Award, 2022
108th Annual Gold Medal Exhibition, Scarab Club, Detroit, MI, 2021
8×8 Season 3, FLATFILE Gallery, NY, NY, 2021
All Media Exhibition, Detroit Artist Market, Detroit MI, 2021
Dual Visions, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit, MI, 2021
Annual Gold Medal Exhibition, Scarab Club, Detroit, MI
, Honorable Mention, 2020
Mandala: India and the World Exhibit, curator, Mia Risberg, Ann Arbor Library, Ann Arbor, MI, 2020
8×8 Season 2, FLATFILE Gallery, subsidiary of Schweitzer Gallery, NY, NY, 2020
Pleins Feux, Open Studios Event, Paris, France, 2019
58th Annual Greater MI Art Exhibit, Alden B. Dow Museum, Midland, MI,
2019
50 states/200 Artists, Encaustic Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM, 2019
38th Annual Michigan Fine Arts Competition, BBAC, Birmingham, MI, 2019
Wild, Scarab Club, Detroit, MI, 2019
Monotype Guild of New England Juried Exhibition, Pawtucket, RI, 2019
Paperworks, Scarab Club, Detroit, MI, 2018
7th Annual Encaustic Exhibition, Morpho Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2018
Terrains, Detroit Artist Market, Detroit, MI, 2018
Projects Gallery, Art Aqua Miami, Miami, FL, 2017
Then and Now, Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, MI, 2017
Contemporary Edges, Group Invitational, Nevada Fine Arts Gallery, NV, 2017
5th Annual Group Show, Capitol City Arts Initiative, Carson City, NV, 2014
Poetry Bleeds Rust, N.A.W.A Gallery, New York, N.Y., 2014
Tenth Turner Nat’l Print Exhibition, Janet Turner Museum, Chico, CA, 2014
Ninth Annual Encaustic Invitational, Conrad Wilde Gallery, Tucson, AZ, 2014
Fusion, Int’l Encaustic Show, Eggman and Walrus Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, 2013
Twenty Fourth Annual Juried Show, CAC, Las Vegas, NV, 2013
Eighth Annual Encaustic Invitational, Conrad Wilde Gallery, Tucson, AZ, 2013
SENate Spotlight Series, Legislature Building, Carson City, NV, 2013
Sixth Biennial National Print Exhibition, N. Arizona University, AZ, 2012
Annual Encaustic Invitational, Conrad Wilde Gallery, Tucson, AZ, 2012
Reno Open Studios Group Exhibit, Sierra Arts Foundation, Reno NV, 2011
Printmaker’s Conspiracy Group Show, St Mary’s Art Center, Virginia City, NV, 2011
Playing with Fire, Tubac Center for the Arts, Tubac, AZ, 2011
Medley of Masterpieces, Blueline Gallery, Roseville, CA, 2011
Amelia Currier: Public Collections
Fidelity Investments
Western Nevada College, Carson City, NV
The Roeper School, Bloomfield Hills, MI
The Palace Hotel, San Francisco, CA
Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Waikiki, HI
The Duffy Collection, WSU, Detroit, MI
Ontological Museum, Santa Fe, NM
Amelia Currier: Publications
Detroit Cultural, April Issue, 2021
Member Spotlight – Catalyst Art Lab, 2021
Vasari 21, ‘The Art of Recycling’, Feb, 2020
Ontological Museum: New Acquisitions, 2019
American Art Collector, 2017
Local Artist Explores Past and Present, Jordan Russell, Nevada Sagebrush, 2015