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Outsider
May
3
–
May 26, 2024
RECEPTION:
May 3, 2024
/
24-04
About the exhibition
Art Up presents a solo exhibition by artist, Amy Ritter, titled Outsider. Drawing inspiration from her upbringing in a double-wide trailer, Ritter's installation weaves together photographs and audio sourced from her ongoing Mobile Home Archive. Ritter seeks to capture the essence of the lost American Dream through the sharing of peoples' stories in hopes to show others they are not alone.
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About the Artist
Amy
Ritter
Amy Ritter grew up in the rural town of Orefield, located in Eastern Pennsylvania. For the past 7 years she’s documented mobile home parks (over 50 sites in over 17 states), and interviewed residents. She’s created and exhibited work influenced by these archives built on her own personal history growing up in a double-wide trailer. She’s continuing to visit mobile home parks throughout the United States, systematically archiving with overarching questions around the American Dream, specifically the myth of social mobility and the stigma around manufactured housing.
Ritter has shown her work nationally for over a decade. She’s been awarded numerous residencies and fellowships; selected honors include Fine Arts Work Center, MA (2016), Skowhegan, ME (2016), Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Workspace Resident, NY (2017), a fellowship at Yaddo, NY (2020), an Engaging Artist Fellowship at More Art, NY (2021), among others. She received her MFA from Ohio State University (2014) and her BFA from Tyler School of Art (2009).
