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Amy Reckley
Fort Collins, CO
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Work collaborators:
Amy Reckley / Keith Jentzsch
 Keith Jentzsch

Amy Reckley
Amy Reckley is showing at:
UICA UICA
41 Sheldon Boulevard SE
Grand Rapids, MI 49503
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Amy Reckley
Artist bio: Amy Reckley and Keith Jentzsch met in graduate school and began collaborating on a number of conceptual installations and drawings. Individually and collectively, they continue to work with a common belief that conscious awareness and conceivable solutions for our future can be found within the artistic practice and its visual manifestations.
Reckley, a native of Michigan, received her MFA in drawing from Colorado State University. She has exhibited her drawings and installations extensively on the national and international level. Currently a resident artist in Colorado, Reckley is preparing for her departure to the Barstow Artist-in-Residence at Central Michigan University.
Jentzsch, when not in the studio, coordinates programs and exhibitions for the University Art Museum at Colorado State University. He earned an MFA in sculpture in 2007 and continues to develop innovative ways of working with drawing applications, performance-driven video and sculptural installations.
Artist statement: Our individual and collaborative studio interests have shifted over the past three years toward social, political and environmental concerns. Even though we strongly believe that ideas are found throughout the creative process, it becomes increasingly necessary and relevant to utilize preconceived ideas as the point of departure and development of more poignant work. Our approach is organic. The activity of living in reflective response to current issues coincides with the activity of making. The issues that we confront individually and universally, affecting us daily and forever, is the very source for art making. The desire to belong to a larger community through thoughtful commentary and significant contribution is central to the development within our work. We recognize the impossibility of a tangible Utopia but work with a vision that is both hopeful and sensitive to the fragility that defines us. Our inclinations provide alternatives to stagnant solutions of black and white.
About the work:
Title: VANCLINE: A Collection of Domestic Fragments with a Place to Sleep

Art form: 3-D

Medium: 1998 Ford Econoline Super Van + mixed media

Year created: Work not created yet

Description of work: The 1998 Ford Econoline Super Van embodies the entire project formally and conceptually. The work is comprised of two parts: the van with its “contents” (three-dimensional) and a group of drawings and other project related materials (two-dimensional). As a vessel, the van holds a collection of physical materials necessary for site-specific extensions within the exhibition space. The drawings and other two-dimensional works represent process and alternative possibilities.
Ideally, we would like to install this work within an interior space, specifically that we must be able to drive the van into the venue, park, unpack, and install. Physical elements attached to and coming out of the van will expand toward the floor, hang in space and reach for the ceiling. Drawings and other supporting documents will be hung upon and mounted to the perimeter walls of the installation space. Adequate space must be available for the viewer to move around the van and navigate any additional elements.

Work statement: VANCLINE is a conceptual project that draws from aspects of our current social, political and environmental climate. The van as a social and economic signifier generically references an auto industry that is driven both literally and figuratively by the working class. Our adaptation of the van is defined by a particular point of view that calls for change. Not intended to exist in a state of completion, the idea evolves under the conditions of flux and immediacy.
We envision this project a test machine for our inclinations to simplify living conditions, maintain practical responses to a current situation and fuel ambition. The van (in addition to its contents and surroundings) is structurally industrious, adaptable and functions as a blank canvas. Essentially, it becomes the aesthetic arena for visionary possibility. By addressing and implementing ideas about mobility and self-contained practices we believe this project makes future solutions and possibilities visible and viable.

Technical details:
Work width: n/a
Work height: n/a
Work depth: n/a
Required venue ceiling: n/a
Required venue door height: 104 inches
Required venue door width: 120 inches
Required wall linear footage: n/a
Required venue square footage: 1200 sq. ft.
Additional considerations:
Audio/video needed: No
Electrical needed: Yes
Lighting needed: Yes
Internet access needed: No
Ground floor access needed: Yes
Indoor space needed: Yes
Outdoor space needed: No
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