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Amy Banker's Artist Profile
Amy Banker
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Artist's Statement

Artist Statement
Amy Cohen Banker

Since childhood I have always been motivated by the arts. I liked doing interdisciplinary projects that combined music,poetry,literature,culture,history and 2 dimensional visual arts. I also liked to teach this way since my times at Cornell University in the late 70s, my time working with Ultraviolet and also with Knox Martin. As many other cultures believed, I have felt that craft should be tied to spirit and making art is a special gift for all.

I create paintings, photos, drawings and media art. By rejecting an objective truth and global cultural narratives, I seduce the viewer into a world of ongoing equilibrium and the interval that articulates the stream of daily events. Moments are depicted that only exist to punctuate the human drama in order to clarify our existence and to find poetic meaning in everyday life.
Her paintings sometimes radiate a cold and latent violence. At times, disconcerting beauty emerges. The inherent visual seductiveness, along with the conciseness of the exhibitions, further complicates the reception of their manifold layers of meaning. By applying a poetic and often metaphorical language, she wants to amplify the astonishment of the spectator by creating compositions or settings that generate tranquil poetic images that leave traces and balances on the edge of recognition and alienation.

My works are based on formal associations which open a unique poetic vein. Multi-layered images arise in which the fragility and instability of our seemingly certain reality is questioned. By choosing mainly formal solutions, she creates with daily, recognizable elements, an unprecedented situation in which the viewer is confronted with the conditioning of his own perception and has to reconsider his biased position.
The works appear as dreamlike images in which fiction and reality meet, well-known tropes merge, meanings shift, past and present fuse. Time and memory always play a key role. By emphasizing aesthetics, she tries to develop forms that do not follow logical criteria, but are based only on subjective associations and formal parallels, which incite the viewer to make new personal associations.

The works urge us to renegotiate painting as being part of a reactive or – at times – expressive medium, commenting on oppressing themes in our contemporary society.

I have been inspired by the great writers and some times writers have used my art to demonstrate and illustrate their words. See Ogan Gurel ”Waves”, Larissa Schmaillo, Penn Kamp, David Goldin, Karole Armitage Dorothy Friedman,for Judith Malina, Michael Amy, Carol Novack. When I think of “which came first, the chicken or the egg” I wonder which came first visual arts or sound. In any case, I emphasize the visual arts and am inspired by sounds.

I have published “Flowers” with the help of Janos Gat and “Heuristics” and “Heuristics 2” with the help of The Riff and Michael Amy I have produced a multimedia event for Bincode,Sonic Self that was inspired by Tolstoy “War and Peace” and was presented at The Hermitage Museum etc. 

Tolstoy inspired dance, music, movies and in turn was inspired by the great world canvas of culture of his era and the times before. He is still of influence presently. A culture lived is one that draws for continuous, indispensable sustenance on the great works of the past,on the truths and beauties achieved in the tradition. It does not reckon against them the personal suffering,which so often have made possible or generated the symphony, the fresco, the metaphysic.
The writer or thinker means the words of the poem.the personae of the drama,to outlast his or her own life,to take on the mystery of autonomous presence and presentness. Art and mind, changes of idiom between generations are a normal part of social history.

The works of Tolstoy, Patti Smith, Beethoven, Stravinsky, Schubert, Goethe, Cezanne possess "Esemplastic" powers. (Coleridge) that many branched coherence of design which builds a great house of language for memory and conjecture to habitat. But despite anarchic.pastoral critiques such as those put by Tolstoy and Thoreau there is little fundamental doubt that science and technology and economic progress are still desired, an immense hunger for comfort and material diversity. But intellectual and cultural and mental inquiry and advancement are still questioned and pursued. There will always be artists,musicians,poets,who reflect and are sustained by Tolstoy and his legacy. The world can still be inspired and balanced by his example and influence. That is part of the heritage motivated and maintained vie. The artist's life in downtown New York has always been a dream. Like the Great Gatsby, we positioned ourselves between excess and sacrifice. Feast or famine. The green light beckons for havoc, mayhem, success. Free falling from history to current events....The more things change the more they remain the same. Tolstoy revealed the same truths in "War and Peace" that Patti Smith, U2 and F. Scott Fitzgerald have identified examination and violence.

My plan is to do the same through their example. Spirituality, forgiveness , love, creation, expression through music and art and words, sound and light and sights for all nations and all peoples Emerson said and Tolstoy quoted: music helps people to find the greatness in their souls. The same can be said about any form of art. "In a true creation of art there is not only no border between the work of art and the artist, but also between the work and the other people who experience it. The major attraction of real art lies in its unification. A new work of art should bring a new emotion in our life." Tolstoy. Poesis is discernible.

I have mulled over and presented versions of that essay for the Hermitage and Chelsea Museum project, for P.S.1 Queens Studio Project and for Artslant Study in Paris. I still feel that it is re

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