Amanda Marie Explained

Amanda Marie (full name Amanda Marie Ploegsma), also known by her artist moniker 'Mando Marie',^[1] born 1981, is an American painter formerly based in Colorado, currently based in Amsterdam, Netherlands,^[2] and exhibits in both the United States and Europe.^[3] She trained at Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design and is best known for her work as a stencilist, including large scale street art designs.^{[4] [5]}

Imagery and media

Amanda Marie uses graphic stencils and images redolent of 'Golden Age' storybook imagery. In an article for Frame Publishers' online magazine frameweb.com, Carmel McNamara said these images: "straddle a line between comforting and spooky".^[6] She frequently features the signature characters of a young boy and girl. In 2012, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art held a solo exhibition of her work and noted that these stylised figures: "seem to have been lifted from the pages of a mid-twentieth century children’s book and have traded the protective home of childhood nostalgia for a slightly more adventurous and unsettling world, somewhere between dream and reality".^[7]

Alongside recurring graphic themes of children and animals, she favors twin, repeated or mirrored imagery, developed with multiple uses of the same stencil on the artwork. Her street art and outdoor paintings and murals incorporate the same primary technique of stencil painting on a large scale.^[8] In gallery, museum or other indoor exhibitions, she typically creates artworks using aerosol paint, acrylic and sewing pattern paper, on watercolor paper, canvas, or wood. She also uses screen printing technique and gel transfers. For outdoor work, the dominant materials are aerosol and acrylic.

In June 2015, Amanda Marie marked the façade of the Quin Hotel in New York City with a signature stencil as part of "Good Story", a solo exhibition curated by Hyland Mather and DK Johnston. Painted during her tenure as the hotel's artist in residence, the stencil commemorated her collaboration with the hotel and is positioned alongside an image of Andy Warhol, created by Blek le Rat.^[9]

Notable exhibitions

2015

• December, SCOPE Art Fair, Miami, Florida^[10]
• July - Aug, Trailerpark Festival, Copenhagen, Denmark ^[11]
• June, the Quin hotel, Good Story solo exhibition, New York, New York ^[9]
• May, JSMA (Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art), The Many Places We Are solo exhibition, Eugene, Oregon^[12]
• March, SCOPE Art Fair, New York, New York^[13]

2014

• July - August, Beautiful Times (beautifultimes.net) an art making adventure and experiment, Boulder, Colorado, New York, New York Philadelphia, Beacon, New York^[14]
• April, Center For Audio Visual Expression (C.A.V.E. Gallery), Balancing Act solo exhibition, Venice Beach, California^[15]
• January, White Walls Gallery, I Was Just Thinking solo exhibition, San Francisco, California^[16]

2013

• June, SCOPE Art Fair solo exhibition, Basel, Switzerland (Andenken Gallery)^[17]
• May, STROKE Art Fair group exhibition, Munich, Germany^[18]
• March, SCOPE Art Fair solo exhibition, New York, NY (Andenken Gallery).^[19] White Walls Gallery, While We Were Away group exhibition, San Francisco, California^[20]
• January, Center For Audio Visual Expression (C.A.V.E. Gallery), From Here On Out solo exhibition, Venice Beach, California^[21]

2012

• December, SCOPE Art Fair solo exhibition, Miami, Florida (Andenken Gallery)^[22]
• October, Moniker Art Fair solo exhibition, London, UK^[23]
• September, STROKE Art Fair group exhibition, Berlin, Germany
• August, LA Mixtape LeBasse Projects group exhibition, Los Angeles, California^[24]
• May–June, Kunst RAI Art Fair solo exhibition, Amsterdam, Netherlands
• May, Schunk Museum Newseum Pink Pop group exhibition, Heerlen, Netherlands^[25]
• March, Battalion Inaugural Exhibition group exhibition, Amsterdam, Netherlands^[26]

2011

• October, Moniker Art Fair group exhibition, London, UK.^[27]
• September, Andenken Gallery, See You Through It solo exhibition, Amsterdam, Netherlands. Illiterate Gallery It All Starts At Home solo exhibition, Denver, Colorado^[28]
• Fall 2011, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Purity & Credence solo exhibition, Boulder, Colorado

2010

• October, Illiterate Gallery solo exhibition, Denver, Colorado^[29]
• May, Streetlab Project Space, Where On Earth Have You Been? group exhibition, Amsterdam, Netherlands^[30]

2009

• December, StreetLab Project Space, Mish Mash KaBash group exhibition, Amsterdam, Netherlands^[31]
• February, Andenken Gallery solo exhibition, Denver, Colorado

2008

• September, Plastic Chapel, Soft and Furry group exhibition, Denver, Colorado^[32]
• June, Andenken Gallery Merge three-person focus exhibition, Denver, Colorado^[33]
• May, Metropolis Gallery, two person exhibition, Lancaster, Pennsylvania^[34]

2007

• December, Transmission Gallery, An Unfinished Storygroup exhibition, Richmond, Virginia.^[35] Thinkspace, API Benefit Show group exhibition, Los Angeles, California^[36]
• August–October, Andenken Gallery, Generation Gap solo exhibition, Denver, Colorado^[37]

Outdoor projects

• Imaginary Girls, Amsterdam, Netherlands – June 2013
• Skinny Dippers, Brooklyn, New York – March 2013^[38]
• Gravity Kids, San Francisco, California – January 2013
• Milk Girls, Greeley, Colorado – October 2012^[39]
• Concrete Monster, Atzlan Northside Skate Park Mural, Fort Collins, Colorado – summer 2011^[40]
• Urban Nature, Denver Botanic Gardens, Denver, Colorado – April–November 2008

External sources

• Amanda Marie website
• Interview for Illiterate talks series on YouTube

Notes and References

1. Web site: Mando Marie . Krysa . Danielle . April 17, 2017 . The Jealous Curator . 17 April 2017.
2. Web site: Mando Marie New Mural "The Ghosts All Around Us" & Solo Show "Can It Be?" @ The Marcy Project, NYC . Eller . Matthew . April 15, 2017 . Street Art News . 15 April 2017.
3. Web site: amanda-marie . culture gallery . 2013-08-24 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304042859/http://culturegallery.co.za/amanda-marie . 2016-03-04 . dead .
4. Web site: CS Interview: Amanda Marie . . 17 June 2013 . Creative Social . 20 July 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130702191753/http://creativesocialblog.com/publishing/cs-interview-amanda-marie . 2 July 2013 . dead .
5. Web site: Sweet Stencils Amanda Marie . Schiller . Marc . 19 March 2013 . Wooster Collective . 20 July 2013 .
6. Web site: Nostalgic Storybook Imagery Takes To The Streets . Mcnamara . Carmel . June 19, 2013 . Frameweb . 20 July 2013.
7. Web site: AMANDA MARIE PLOEGSMA: PURITY & CREDENCE . . September 2011 . Boulder Museum Of Contemporary Art . 20 July 2013 .
8. Web site: Amanda Marie New Works In Europe . SA . June 7, 2013. Arrested Motion . 20 July 2013.
9. Web site: The Quin Central Park by Hilton Club Hotel.
10. Web site: Miami Beach 2015 | SHOWS | SCOPE . 2016-01-08 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160112075413/https://scope-art.com/shows/miami-beach-2015/about/ . 2016-01-12 . dead .
11. Web site: Art — Trailerpark Festival 2016 . www.trailerparkfestival.com . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304103636/http://www.trailerparkfestival.com/art/ . 2016-03-04.
12. Web site: Amanda Marie and X-O: The Many Places We Are | Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art.
13. Web site: New York 2015 | SHOWS | SCOPE . 2016-01-08 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150918160349/http://scope-art.com/shows/new-york-2015/about/ . 2015-09-18 . dead .
14. Web site: Home . www.beautifultimes.net . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20091004090422/http://www.beautifultimes.net/ . 2009-10-04.
15. Web site: Cavegallery.net - .
16. http://www.widewalls.ch/amanda-marie-street-art-exhibition-san-francisco/
17. Web site: Exhibitors | Basel 2013 | SCOPE . Scope-art.com . 2013-08-19 . 2013-08-24 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130819092737/http://scope-art.com/shows/basel-2013/exhibitors/#/scopebasel2013/galleries/21431/ . 2013-08-19 . dead .
18. Web site: Abrahams . Megan . Max Neutra: Reporting from Stroke Art Fair, Munich . Cartwheel Art . 15 May 2013. 2013-08-25.
19. Web site: Exhibitors | New York 2013 | SCOPE . Scope-art.com . 2013-08-24 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130823150020/http://scope-art.com/shows/new-york-2013/exhibitors/#/scopeny2013/galleries/19686/ . 2013-08-23 . dead .
20. Web site: While We Were Away . . January 2013 . 941 Geary . 20 July 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130816111649/http://941geary.com/shows/while-we-were-away . 16 August 2013 . dead .
21. Web site: From Here On Out . . January 2013 . Cave Gallery . 20 July 2013 .
22. Web site: Exhibitors | Miami 2012 | SCOPE . Scope-art.com . 2013-08-24 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130823154611/http://scope-art.com/shows/miami-2012/exhibitors/#/scopemiami2012/galleries/13826/ . 2013-08-23 . dead .
23. Web site: Amanda Marie | Moniker Art Fair 2012 . Monikerartfair.com . 2013-08-24 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130801115316/http://www.monikerartfair.com/2012/amanda-marie/ . 2013-08-01 . dead .
24. Web site: IN L.A.: LA MIXTAPE @ LEBASSE PROJECTS CHINA TOWNs . Duran . Amy . August 20, 2013 . Juxtapoz . 20 July 2013 .
25. Web site: SCHUNCK @ PINKPOP 2012 Newseum . . April 16, 2012 . Pinkpoppers . 20 July 2013 .
26. Web site: Battalion Press Release . mather . hyland . 30 January 2012 . Andenken . 20 July 2013 .
27. Web site: Moniker Art Fair . Andenken Gallery . 2011 . 2013-08-25 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131029200120/http://andenken.com/openings/amanda_marie_web.pdf . 2013-10-29 . dead .
28. Web site: Illiterate: Amanda Marie: It All Starts at Home . . 5 October 2011 . Denver Arts . 20 July 2013 .
29. Web site: Illiterate Talks To Amanda Marie . https://archive.today/20130825111851/http://www.thedenveregotist.com/news/local/2010/november/2/illiterate-talks-amanda-marie . dead . August 25, 2013 . . November 2, 2010 . The Denver Egoists . 20 July 2013 .
30. Web site: Where On Earth Have You Been? . . April 2010 . Andenken . 20 July 2013 .
31. Web site: Mish Mash Kabash . Van Vurren . Eva . April 2010 . Andenken . 20 July 2013 .
32. Web site: Soft and Furry . . September 2008 . Soft and Furry . 20 July 2013 .
33. Web site: LiV's First Friday Review: Merge @ Andenken . LiV . 10 June 2008 . Street Art Locator . 20 July 2013 .
34. Web site: Lesley Reppeteaux and Amanda Marie at Metropolis Gallery . . May 2008 . Street Art Locator . 20 July 2013 . https://archive.today/20130825111917/http://streetartlocator.com/blog/2009/04/29/lesley-reppeteaux-and-amanda-marie-at-metropolis-gallery/ . 2013-08-25 . dead .
35. Web site: AMANDA MARIE's "An Unfinished Story"; New Paintings. . November 19, 2007 . Sour Harvest . 20 July 2013 .
36. Web site: Thinkspace announces lineup for upcoming API benefit show… . Hosner . Andrew . November 28, 2007 . Transmissionrva . 20 July 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131029185018/http://sourharvest.com/2007/11/19/thinkspace-announces-lineup-for-upcoming-api-benefit-show/ . 2013-10-29 . dead .
37. Web site: Amanda Marie at Andenken Gallery . Hammel . Ken. 27 August 2007 . Joy Engine . 20 July 2013 .
38. Web site: Amanda Marie's latest mural in NYC (Wooster Collective) . . 19 March 2013 . White Walls . 20 July 2013 .
39. Web site: For Greeley artist, painting new downtown mural was the easy part . England . Dan . 14 October 2012 . Greeley Tribune . 20 July 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304001839/http://www.greeleytribune.com/news/local/2941919-113/mural-ploegsma-greeley-street . 4 March 2016 . dead . dmy-all .
40. Web site: Northside Aztlan Skate Park Mural . . 2011 . Fort Collins Gov . 20 July 2013.