Amanda N. Simon's work revolves around our prescribed roles in life. Her paintings incorporate old sewing patterns which add a layer of direction to her outstanding figure work. Amanda confronts the viewer with visual statements of gender and emotion.
"Each of us is born into a blueprint.
Ours lives, in many ways, are defined solely by our adherence to, or deviation from, that blueprint.
As a visual artist, I use the juxtaposition of the human form and the concept of a social blueprint as a metaphor for the constraints of contemporary social expectation. My visual language is a means of exploring, deconstructing, and exposing concepts of gender pre-destiny, gender expectation, and the reciprocal need to challenge those American norms. As an expository commentary on contemporary gender roles and sexuality, my work has served as a cathartic visual autobiography and a challenge to my viewers to deconstruct their own identity on the gender continuum."
Amanda is curently enrolled in the Master of Arts in Visual and Critical Studies at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco.
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