ABOUT AMANDA
o Amanda completed her undergraduate work at the University of Pennsylvania in Design of the Environment. She received her Master's Degree of Fine Art from Utah State University (awarded the Larry Elsner Sculpture Scholarship). She attended the New York Studio School where she studied sculpture and drawing (awarded Best of Sculpture and Best of Drawing and the Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation Grant). Amanda also studied painting and drawing in Florence, Italy through Studio Art Centers International.
I am interested in our connection to the animal and natural word. I want to explore a truth about our relationship to it by creating work that conveys both vulnerability and power from the subjects.
I'm striving to create something new and modern. I want to create a painting that I have never seen before; to achieve a sense that the image is emerging; almost creating itself.
....“There is a sculpture-like essence to her paintings: a singularity and a completeness. It’s as if Wilner has painted the sides and the back of the piece although no one can see it.”--Michele Corriel
I am interested in our connection to the animal and natural word. I want to explore a truth about our relationship to it by creating work that conveys both vulnerability and power from the subjects.
I'm striving to create something new and modern. I want to create a painting that I have never seen before; to achieve a sense that the image is emerging; almost creating itself.
....“There is a sculpture-like essence to her paintings: a singularity and a completeness. It’s as if Wilner has painted the sides and the back of the piece although no one can see it.”--Michele Corriel