Amy Scofield

Amy Scofield was raised in the Colorado mountains in a family who valued science, nature and imagination- fundamentals she relies on as an artist. Although she studied and practiced art in college she earned an English degree which helps her hone and clarify ideas and thoughts so her art making can be imprecise and unrestricted.

In recent years she’s been invited to create large-scale outdoor installations in Texas, Colorado and France, each using recycled or repurposed elements that graphically express our tenuous relationship to our environment. Salvaged bike tubes, Mylar strips, decommissioned city water pipe, and fallen trees some of the components I incorporate into striking, incongruous forms.

In smaller works, she employs other found and scrounged materials such as stones, plastic bottles, even her own shoes, as well as digital photography to examine ideas of balance, harmony, and perfection.

Although she’s been in Texas since 1987, she thinks of herself as a mountain girl who thrives in nature and strives for clarity and connection in all she does.