"The Landscape of Dreams" Exhibit at Watchung Arts Center

“The Landscape of Dreams”, an exhibit opening March 8 at the Watchung Arts Center, features the work of photographer Amy Evans, one of the winners of the New Art Groups recent Solo Show Competition. An opening reception will be held on March 8 from 1-4 PM.
The Landscape of Dreams series is a pictorial self-reflection that has its roots in the backdrop of rural New Jersey. As an artist, Amy Evans relies on her native environment for the foundation of her work. Whether taking direction from a farmer’s field with perfectly aligned cornrows or the random design of discarded trash clinging to a chain link fence; New Jersey’s ever-changing palette has a direct imprint on Evan’s artistic process.
With a Master of Arts degree in Studio Photography from Kean University, Amy has exhibited her works at many galleries throughout New Jersey and nationally, including New Jersey Landscapes at the Governor’s Mansion Gallery in Princeton, NJ in 2013; and the annual Signature Artists Exhibition, at the Noyes Museum of Art in Oceanville, NJ for the past several years.
In describing the exhibit, Evans says, “The themes in my work often draw a connection between the past and present by forging together both reality and fabrication. Using a mixture of real and imaginary characters, places and events; I spin elements forward and back, blending and rearranging the visualization to suite the imaginary ending I chose. Reality remembered and reinvented.”
In creating her images, Evans uses both a camera and a flatbed scanner. “This combination of techniques poses interesting opportunities and limitations. Each image is captured separately and cataloged for future use. During the creative process I can fabricate, blend, and rearrange imagery into the visualization that I chose. This offers me a subtly different way of looking at my subjects: a perspective that can’t be seen through a camera lens or the naked eye but invented by my imagination.”
The Watchung Arts Center is located on the circle at 18 Stirling Road,Watchung,NJ . The Gallery is open Tues.-Fri. noon-5pm and Sat. 10:00am-3:00pm. For more information go to watchungarts.org or call 908 753 0190.