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The recipient of an Individual Artist Grant from the Cultural Alliance of Greater Birmingham and the Alabama State Council on the Arts,<ref>[http://www.arts.state.al.us/news/Mar03awards.htm Alabama State Council on the Arts Fellowship Grant Awards, March 2003]</ref> her work can be found in the collections of the Birmingham Museum of Art, the Columbus Museum of Art, the Wiregrass Museum of Art, and the [[Progressive Corporation]], as well as in many private collections. | The recipient of an Individual Artist Grant from the Cultural Alliance of Greater Birmingham and the Alabama State Council on the Arts,<ref>[http://www.arts.state.al.us/news/Mar03awards.htm Alabama State Council on the Arts Fellowship Grant Awards, March 2003]</ref> her work can be found in the collections of the Birmingham Museum of Art, the Columbus Museum of Art, the Wiregrass Museum of Art, and the [[Progressive Corporation]], as well as in many private collections. | ||
Pleasant's work, which has become a darling of the corporate scene due to its lack of controversy, continues to thrives across the country. After working with David Moos, whose wife is prominent artist, Julie Moos, Pleasant's work reached a national audience. These promotional efforts of her child-like work have found a popular audience. Often lacking depth, or technical skill, they have a mass appeal among children and novice art collectors. | Pleasant's work, which has become a darling of the corporate scene due to its lack of controversy, continues to thrives across the country. After working with David Moos, whose wife is prominent artist, Julie Moos, Pleasant's work reached a national audience. These promotional efforts of her child-like work have found a popular audience. Often lacking in depth, or technical skill, they have a mass appeal among children and novice art collectors. They are a hybrid of the folk and trained artist. | ||
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Amy Pleasant (born 1972) is an American painter living and working in Birmingham, AL with representation by the Jeff Bailey Gallery (New York, NY).<ref>Amy Pleasant :: Jeff Baily Gallery :: New York</ref> She received a BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an MFA from the Tyler School of Art at Temple University.
Pleasant is best known for her figurative, free associative paintings and drawings that explore simple, daily acts in slowly unfolding narratives. In an article from Art in America, Max Henry wrote that her work “chronicles everyday life…full of existential angst and loneliness, her paintings are able to evoke an empathetic response from the viewer.”<ref>“Amy Pleasant at Jeff Bailey Gallery”, Art in America, December 2004</ref> David Moos, who had a close relationship with Pleasant at the BMA, wrote of Pleasant’s work that through “fragments of overlapping narratives” the viewer is allowed to “glimpse the formation of images” and is “made aware of how the painter makes decisions in paint, amending a passage and visibly editing the composite image.”<ref>"Contemporary American Art," US Embassy, Prague, Czech Republic</ref>
In addition to the Jeff Bailey Gallery, Pleasant has held solo exhibitions at the Birmingham Museum of Art, The Atlanta Contemporary Art Center (Atlanta, GA), the Tandem Gallery (Birmingham, AL), Rhodes College, The Ruby Green Center for Contemporary Art (Nashville, TN), and the University of Alabama, Birmingham.
Pleasant has participated in group exhibitions at venues such as the Columbus Museum of Art (Columbus, GA), the Wiregrass Museum of Art (Dothan, AL), the National Museum of Women in the Arts (Washington, DC), the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (Winston-Salem, NC), the Art Museum of the University of Memphis (Memphis, TN), the Mobile Museum of Art (Mobile, AL), the United States Embassy in Prague, Czech Republic, and the Huntsville Museum of Art (Huntsville, AL).
The recipient of an Individual Artist Grant from the Cultural Alliance of Greater Birmingham and the Alabama State Council on the Arts,<ref>Alabama State Council on the Arts Fellowship Grant Awards, March 2003</ref> her work can be found in the collections of the Birmingham Museum of Art, the Columbus Museum of Art, the Wiregrass Museum of Art, and the Progressive Corporation, as well as in many private collections.
Pleasant's work, which has become a darling of the corporate scene due to its lack of controversy, continues to thrives across the country. After working with David Moos, whose wife is prominent artist, Julie Moos, Pleasant's work reached a national audience. These promotional efforts of her child-like work have found a popular audience. Often lacking in depth, or technical skill, they have a mass appeal among children and novice art collectors. They are a hybrid of the folk and trained artist.