Amy Eisenfeld Genser

Posted on March 28, 2011 - by Kate

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All the way from his new home in the Netherlands, my brother’s friend Neil sent me a New England artist last night who is right up my alley, Amy Eisenfeld Genser, who he found on Design Milk on Friday. Her work is both repetitive and pattern-centric – two of my favorite things – and she creates it in West Hartford, CT!

The above, “White Undulation” is made of paper and acrylic on wood. Amy rolls each of these individual pieces into these tight cyclinders, which then become the larger wholes. In her artist statement you can hear her synergies with my interests, “I am fascinated by the flow of water, the organization of beehives, and the organic irregularity of plants, flowers, rock formations, barnacles, moss, and seaweed.”

These white textured squares remind me of the porcelain works by Elements Clay Studio on Etsy. Amy’s are rolled paper again but the idea of exploring texture and 3D in a monochrome palette is pretty cool no matter what material you’re working in. Interestingly, she also cites aerial landscape views’ quilt-like qualities as inspiration, much like the work of Emily of Haptic Lab!

We’ve been looking at some amazing kuba cloth for the apartment lately and for some reason the above work reminds me of a few we’ve been eying out in Cambridge at Reside.

Her underwater, colorful items are just as interesting as her more monochromatic ones (though I’d prefer those ones for my own home). The above, “Waterfall,” is so cool – many of Amy’s pieces are listed as sold, however, on this one she has it listed that there’s a reproduction available, I’m not sure what that means – if it’s the same piece or if it’s not with the paper but just a painted version of the piece.

These above may look small but each square is 16 x 16 inches. I for one will reiterate that I love that they look sort of hive-like with their regular increasing and decreasing – an ode to my love of bees and stitch patterns.