Amanda Mears worked as a documentary film-maker before earning her MFA from Claremont Graduate School. Her paintings and sculptural books explore the idea of landscape as fragile, mediated, specific and intimate. Grounded in her documentarian’s practice of gathering and editing materials, Amanda’s process begins with drawing and photographing in nature. These gathered materials are reprocessed into paintings and books which investigate the powerful tension between the universal and the particular, and the real and the imagined. Amanda’s work engages with humans’ intertwined relationship with the natural world, investigating via materials and mark-making how we inscribe ourselves onto an idea of landscape.

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