Amy Genser works with paper, paint, metal and wood to explore her obsession with texture, pattern, and color.
Evocative of natural forms and organic processes, her work is simultaneously irregular and ordered.
She uses paper as pigment and constructs her pieces by layering, cutting, rolling, and combining paper.
The process is a meditation, which Amy describes as a beautiful dream. Her hands take over and her mind is quiet.

The natural world is a clear source for Amy’s work. She is fascinated by the flow of water,
the shape of beehives, and the organic irregularity of plants, flowers, rock formations, barnacles, moss, lichen,
and seaweed. Her pieces bring to mind aerial landscape views, satellite imagery, and biological cellular processes.

Amy’s love affair with paper began in 2000 in a paper-making class at the Rhode Island School of Design,
where she got a masters degree in Graphic Design. Amy lives in West Hartford, CT with her husband and
three sons, and spends her summers on the beach in Rhode Island.

Education

Rhode Island School of Design
Providence, Rhode Island
2001
MFA in Graphic Design

Washington University
St. Louis, Missouri
1996
BA in History with College Honors
Minor in Graphic Communications