Amy Weiskopf creates mysterious and meticulously crafted still lifes bristling with tension and energy. Through juxtaposition of shapes and textures, use of brilliantly vibrating color, and risky setups in which the objects sit tensely on edge, Weiskopf weaves powerful, often surreal, optical effects.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, which has a Weiskopf in its permanent collection, included her paintings in its traveling exhibition of 20th-century still-life painting. She is also an accomplished landscape painter, depicting the area near her summer home in the Siena region of central Italy.
Amy Weiskopf was born and raised in Chicago in 1957. She later received her masters from the Tyler School of Art in 1983 and has exhibited nationally in group and solo exhibitions.
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