Amelia Biewald
Artist Residency/Exhibition
March 21 – April 15, 2005
Minneapolis artist Amelia Biewald, recipient of the Schick Art Gallery 2005 artist's
residency competition, will use the gallery space as a studio to develop an installation
piece during her residency, scheduled March 21st through April 15th. Students and
the public may view the process and interact with the artist at limited times. There
will be a celebration reception in the gallery when her creation is brought to fruition.
Biewald's work addresses conventional notions of physical beauty, and the ways it
can be obtained, as well as pop culture's obsession with supernatural beauty and youth.
Her work looks at the line between the artificial and natural, including surgically
enhanced bodies, and questions the ethics of such medical "advances." She incorporates
a wide array of materials in her provocative large-scale installations and considers
the process of construction to be of utmost importance in her work.
Biewald received a B.F.A. degree from the Rhode Island School of Design and studied
fine art and theory at Goldsmith's College at the University of London. She earned
an M.F.A. degree from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. The recipient of
many awards and fellowships, Biewald received a 2004 residency fellowship from the
Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture. She has exhibited widely in the midwest
and taught at the College of Visual Arts in St. Paul, Minnesota. She is an adjunct
professor at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design.
Artist's Lecture/Reception Info