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Amanda Salov’s work examines the qualities of a moment, or the idea of a moment in physical form: temporal, fragile and fleeting. With her porcelain sculptures, installations, and paintings, she uses natural phenomena as metaphors and anchors for the transitions we all face. Salov finds that our settings can have a profound effect on how we process and cope with our interconnected lives. At times, it helps her to know that some things will be constant while other parts change. She finds comfort in this dichotomy – things both constant and reliable while at once ever-changing – mirrored in the light of sea and sky. Such ephemera, light, and color in the atmosphere, always changing whether we can pay attention or not. Salov uses natural seeks to bring awareness to such subtleties in her porcelain sculptures and installations, using natural phenomena as metaphors and anchors for the transitions we all face. She makes work that listens rather than professing loudly; as she puts it, “I want it to be present, stable, but dynamic like the sea and the sky.”
Amanda was raised in Cambridge, Wisconsin and holds an MFA from the University of Missouri. Amanda has shown her work throughout the United States and abroad. She was included in the Korean International Ceramics Biennial in 2019 and 2021. Amanda has earned a number of awards, including being named a National Council Emerging Artist (2010), a recipient of an Oregon Arts Council grant in (2013, 2016, 2017), Ford Family Foundation Grant (2016, 2017), a Washington State Artist Trust Grant (2018), and a Allied Art Foundation Grant (2022.) Amanda has spent time working at Anderson Ranch Art Center in Snowmass Village, Colorado, University of Arkansas, Oregon College of Art and Craft , The Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramics Arts, Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts, the University of Washington, Oregon State University in the Microbiology Department , Tainan National University of the Arts in Taiwan, Ash Street Project in Portland, Oregon, The Reykjavik School of Visual Arts, and Pottery Northwest in Seattle, laRex I’Atelier in France. She is currently a studio artist in Seattle, Washington.
