AMY TWOMEY

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Biography

Amy Twomey is a Texas-based painter whose work weaves together storytelling, memory, and a sense of place through layered, intuitive mark-making. Her compositions often gesture toward landscape, personal narrative, and familiar icons, yet remain expansive enough for viewers to interpret on their own terms.

Twomey’s approach is rooted firmly in process. Instead of planning toward a finished image, she lets each painting evolve in response to the moments happening on the canvas—what’s appearing, disappearing, or pressing forward. Imperfection, erasure, and subtle shifts become central to the work, giving her paintings a sense of lived time and layered experience.

Drawing inspiration from the icons and atmospheres of West Texas and the broader Southwest, as well as the emotional resonance of everyday life, Twomey balances instinct with restraint. Her paintings invite a slower pace of looking, encouraging viewers to enter the work and bring their own stories rather than search for a single, definitive reading. Her practice has often been described as a contemporary form of spiritual folk art.

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Education

1998       MA, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI.

1995       BA, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM.

1993-94       Art Institute of Chicago

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2025          Art Center Waco, Waco, TX

2025         Marfa Invitational, Marfa, TX

2025 VISIONS, Dallas, TX

2025          DJCF, Dallas, TX

2024          Lone Gallery, Dallas, TX

2024          Craighead Green Gallery, Dallas, TX

2024         Norman Brown Gallery, Dallas, TX

2023 TSX Screen Times Square, NYC, NY

2023          HMVC Gallery New York, NY

2023          360 Gallery, Minneapolis, MN

2010            Dear Clark, Dallas, TX

2000          The Dream Cafe, Dallas, TX

2000           DCVA, Dallas, TX

1999            Southern Women Artist Gallery, Atlanta, GA

1998            Ground Zero, Madison, WI

1998            ASA Gallery, Madison, WI

1997            The Storypeople Gallery, Rochester, MN

1996            Jack of All Arts Gallery, Madrid, NM

1996            Rare Bookstore, Albuquerque, NM

1996            Cafe Intermezzo, Albuquerque, NM

1995            The Sweeney Center, Santa Fe, NM

1994           UNM Art Museum, Albuquerque, NM

1994           John Sommers Gallery, Albuquerque, NM

1994           Masley Art Gallery, Albuquerque, NM

1993            280 Chicago, IL

1993            Sharp Gallery, Chicago, IL

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