Amy Kaufman’s paintings explore a visual language of pattern based abstraction pushing the relationship between linear repetitions, blocks of color, broad loops and the grounds on which they are carefully placed. The works are studies of scale, proportion, color and media. Her work is included in numerous public and private collections including the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; San Jose Museum of Art, CA; Fine Arts Museums, San Francisco, CA; The Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT; and United States Embassies in Hong Kong and Singapore. She is represented by Traywick Contemporary in Berkeley, CA.
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Born in White Plains, New York.
Lives and works in Oakland, California.
EDUCATION
BFA, California College of Arts and Crafts, 1990
BA, Art History, Barnard College, 1978
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021
Traywick Contemporary, Berkeley, CA
2018
Traywick Contemporary, Berkeley, CA
2016
Traywick Contemporary, Berkeley, CA
2013
Recent Work, Traywick Contemporary, Berkeley, CA
ICA, San Jose, CA
2012
b + w, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
2011
Recent Work, Traywick Contemporary, Berkeley, CA
2009
Recent Work, Traywick Contemporary, Berkeley, CA
2007
Recent Work, Traywick Contemporary, Berkeley, CA
2005
New Work, Traywick Contemporary, San Francisco, CA
2004
Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA
2003
New Work, Traywick Gallery, Berkeley, CA
2001
Traywick Gallery, Berkeley, CA
2000
Mills College Museum, Oakland, CA
1999
Traywick Gallery, Berkeley, CA
1997
American Institute of Architects, Oakland, CA
Mike, San Francisco, CA
1996
Gensler Architecture and Planning, San Francisco, CA
1995
ZIA, Berkeley, CA
1994
The Berkeley Store Gallery, Berkeley, CA
1993
Okeanos Press, Berkeley, CA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020
From the Studio, Traywick Contemporary, Berkeley, CA
2017
Neverending Summer, Traywick Contemporary, Berkeley, California
Spectral Hues: artists + color, Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, California
2016
Indestructible Wonder, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
Paulson Bott Press: Celebrating 20 Years, de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA
Plus One, Traywick Contemporary, Berkeley, CA
2014
Shift - Five Decades of Contemporary California Painting, Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey, California
2012
Collective Memories, Arts Benicia, Benicia, California
2011
Absence / Presence: Contemporary Abstraction, Sonoma State University Art Gallery, Rohnert Park, CA
2009
Drawing: The Probity of Art, ArtsBenicia Gallery, Benicia, CA
2007
Convergence, Oakland International Airport, Oakland, CA
Just Charcoal, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2006
Recent Acquisitions, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
2005
Bay Area Bazaar, Pulliam Deffenbaugh Gallery, Portland, OR
Monotype Marathon, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
NeoMod: Recent Northern California Abstraction, Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey, CA
2004
13, Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
35th Anniversary Exhibition, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
Neo-Mod: Recent Northern California Abstraction, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
2003
Fine Lines, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA
25th Anniversary Exhibition, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Visible Rhythm, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
2002
Bay Area Printmakers, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2001
First Impressions, Prints from Paulson Press, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
Fresh Marks, Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA
Finely Drawn, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC
2000
Atea Ring Gallery, Westport, NY
From Raucous Abstraction to Refined, Bedford Gallery, Dean Lesher Regional Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, CA
2000
At the Millenium: Contemporary Paintings from Northern California, Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey, CA
1998
Revolver, Traywick Gallery, Berkeley, CA
Small Works, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition, The SFMOMA Rental Gallery, San Francisco, CA
The First Fifty years: A Celebration of the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, The California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA
Amy Kaufman & Tim Jag, Traywick Gallery, Berkeley, CA
California College of Arts and Crafts Alumni Exhibition, Mills Building, San Francisco, CA
14th Annual National Juried Exhibition, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
1997
Here (Again), Traywick Gallery, Berkeley, CA
1078 Gallery, Chico, CA
505 Sansome Street, San Francisco, CA
1996
Bay Arts 1996, San Mateo County Arts Council, Belmont, CA
American Drawing Biennial V, Muscarelle Museum of Art, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA
Stockton National Print and Drawing Exhibition, The Haggin Museum, Stockton, CA
Reynolds Gallery, University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA
1995
Oriental Influence, Cabrillo College Gallery, Aptos, CA
Biennial Print and Draw Exhibition, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA
SFMOMA Rental Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1994
The Alphabet Show, Okeanos Press, Berkeley, CA
The Drawing Show, Berlex Laboratories Inc., Richmond, CA
Summer Print Show, Okeanos Press, Berkeley, CA
Drawn Conclusions, Firehouse Gallery, Garden City, NY
Drawing 1994, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT
1993
Drawings, Peconic Gallery, Riverhead, NY
Prints from Six Artists, Okeanos Press, Berkeley, CA
Bay Arts 1993, San Mateo County Arts Council, Belmont, CA
Pro Arts Annual, Oakland, CA
Drawing into the 90s, Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, TX
Crocker Kinglsey Annual, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
14th Annual Paper in Particular, Columbia College, Columbia, MO
1992
8th Annual Works on Paper, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley
Drawing 1992, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT
Drawn West, 3rd Biennial, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Utah State University, Logan, UT
Works On or Of Paper, 25th University of Delaware Biennial, Newark, DE
AWARDS
1995
Merit Award, Biennial Print and Draw Exhibition, Triton Museum, Santa Clara, CA
1992
Silver Award, Art of California Magazine Discovery Awards, Napa, CA
Purchase Award, University of Delaware, Newark, DE
Purchase Award, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT
Amy Kaufman
Loop Knot 1
2009
Color spitbite and softground etching
withe drypoint and chine collé
Somerset white textured paper
Image size 22¾" x 19¼"
Paper size 30¾" x 35¼"
Edition of 40
Amy Kaufman
Loop Knot 2
2009
Color spitbite and softground etching
withe drypoint and chine collé
Somerset white textured paper
Image size 22¾" x 19¼"
Paper size 30¾" x 35¼"
Edition of 40
Amy Kaufman
Candy Corn
2008
Color softground, aquatint and
spitbite aquatint etching
Somerset white textured paper
Image size 28" x 21"
Paper size 38" x 30"
Edition of 30
Amy Kaufman
Red Herring
2008
Color softground, aquatint and
spitbite aquatint etching
Somerset white textured paper
Image size 28" x 21"
Paper size 38" x 30"
Edition of 30
Amy Kaufman
Jackstraws
2008
Color hardground,
aquatint and drypoint etching
Somerset white textured paper
Image size 14" x 22¾"
Paper size 23¾" x 31¾"
Edition of 30
Amy Kaufman
JackStraws (State 2)
2008
Color hardground,
aquatint and drypoint etching
Somerset white textured paper
Image size 14" x 22¾"
Paper size 23¾" x 31¾"
Edition of 30
Amy Kaufman
Halo
2008
Color softground, spitbite aquatint
and aquatint etching
Somerset white textured paper
Image size 8½" x 11½"
Paper size 18" x 20½"
Edition of 30
Amy Kaufman
Route 1
2001
Aquatint etching with softground,
hardground, drypoint, scrape and burnish
Somerset white textured paper
Image size 12" x 9 5/16"
Paper size 21" x 17¼"
Edition of 20
Amy Kaufman
Route 2
2001
Aquatint etching with softground,
hardground, drypoint, scrape and burnish
Somerset white textured paper
Image size 12" x 9 5/16"
Paper size 21" x 17¼"
Edition of 20
Amy Kaufman
Peel
2001
Sugarlift, spitbite, and aquatint etching
with drypoint, scrape and burnish
Somerset white textured paper
Image size 14¼" x 22½"
Paper size 23" x 29"
Edition of 20
Amy Kaufman
Shadow
2001
Sugarlift, spitbite, and aquatint etching
with drypoint, scrape and burnish
Somerset white textured paper
Image size 14¼" x 22½"
Paper size 23" x 29"
Edition of 20
Amy Kaufman
Plum
2001
Spitbite and aquatint etching
with drypoint, scrape and burnish
Somerset white textured paper
Image size 11" x 22"
Paper size 19 3/8" x 29¾"
Edition of 25
Amy Kaufman
Sea Legs
2001
Spitbite and aquatint etching
with drypoint, scrape and burnish
Somerset white textured paper
Image size 11" x 22"
Paper size 19 3/8" x 29¾"
Edition of 25