Amanda Lechner
- she/her
Amanda Lechner is a visual artist whose studio practice encompasses a broad approaches to drawing and painting. Lechner has taught painting and drawing at the university level for over a decade at Indiana University - Bloomington, SUNY Purchase and University of Iowa. Since 2019 she has held the position of Assistant Professor at Virginia Tech’s School of Visual Art. Lechner attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2018 and has participated in artist residencies at the Penland School of Crafts, the Wassaic Project in New York and at Stove Works in Chattanooga, TN. Her work has been exhibited throughout the United States.
Painting, Contemporary Art, Historical materials, Sciences, Ecology
ART 2524 Introduction to Painting
ART 3524 Topics in painting: Materials and Methods; Color and Site; Figure & Narrative
ART 4524 Pictorial Arts Studio; Advanced Painting
ART 4894 Senior Studio
Selected Solo exhibitions
2022 Terra Ignota, Staniar Gallery, W&L University, Lexington, VA
2021 PHASE CHANGE, Vital Spaces, Santa Fe, NM
2019 Future Present Tense, Standard Space, Sharon CT Future Perfect Tense, Axle Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
2016 Planetary Analog Prairie Lights, Iowa City, IA
2014 SIGNALS Leedy Voulkos Art Center, Opie Gallery, Kansas City MO
Selected group exhibitions
2022 Trace Elements - Amanda Lechner & Michael Borowski Blacksburg Museum & Cultural Foundation, Blacksburg, VA
2021
TOGETHER IS BETTER, Stoveworks, Chattanooga, TN In the Wake of Slumber, PARADICE PALASE, Brooklyn, NY 18th Annual New Work Exhibition, Floyd Center for the Arts, Floyd, VA Hot Doughnuts Now Stoveworks, Chattanooga, TN
2020
Endless State Showhegan Alliance online endlessstate.work, Juried by Xinyi Cheng, Yui Kugimiya & Jagdeep Raina Museum from Home: The Resilience Project, 516 Arts, Albuquerque, NM - Online
2019
Ad Astra Per Aspera, Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY
2017
NASTY WOMEN Iowa City Near Future, Iowa City, IA
STATIONTOSTATION Grunwald Gallery, IU, Bloomington, IN
2016
Stages curated by Matt Bollinger Studio Zürcher, NYC
VOLTA NY Art Fair, Pier 90 (Field Projects Gallery), New York, NY
Monsters in America curated by Richard Saja, One Mile Gallery, Kingston NY & The International Cryptozoology Museum, Portland, Maine
2015
Art in America, curated by Julie Torres, Satellite Art Fair, Miami, FL
Haunted Summer curated by Keri Oldham One Mile Gallery, Kingston NY
Meeting Point curated by WonJung Choi The Korean Cultural Center Washington, D.C
The Two States of WW curated by Andrew Prayzner TSA Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2014
About the Body Curated by Loren Britton, Gallery 1989, Larchmont, NY
2013
In Search Of… TSA Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
The Flat Files: Year One TSA Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2012
Show #5: First Contact Curated by Jacob Rhodes, Field Projects, New York, NY
In Search Of… Rhodes College Clough-Hansen Gallery, Memphis, TN / Kansas University Art &Design Gallery, Lawrence, KS Stones Bones and Relics Curated by Anna Mikhailovskaia, Brooklyn Fireproof, Brooklyn, NY
2011
Tompkins Projects West: Works on Paper Dan Graham, Los Angeles, CA
Sub Terrain Curated by Andrew Thompson, Work Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI
2009
New American Paintings Exhibition in Print, NE Edition 2009, Open StudioPress
Morsel Remains Group Exhibition Long Island City, NY Related Process 579 Broadway New York, NY
2008
Dialect curated Adam Eckstrom, Broadway Gallery, New York, NY The Sieve Go for a loop Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Everybody Only Meow Wolf Art Space, Santa Fe, NM
Science Fair Rock, Paper, Scissors Gallery, Oakland, California
2006
RISD Biennial NYC 2006, Curated by Robert Storr, Exit Art New York, NY
2005
Life and Limb Curated by David Humphrey Feigen Contemporary, New York, NY
Providential RISD Painting MFA 2005, Supreme Trading, Brooklyn, NY
MFA Exhibition RISD Museum, Providence, RI
CURATORIAL / COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS
2021
Phase Change, Vital Spaces, Santa Fe, NM
2017
STATIONTOSTATION: New and Visiting Faculty in SoAD Grunwald Gallery, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
2016
NASA - JPL Solar System Ambassador Exhibition/Programming, Santa Fe, NYC, Iowa City, Bloomington
2015
ebla domo / possible house Group Exhibition 921S7, Iowa City, IA
2013
In Search Of… Group Exhibition, Video Night, and poetry reading Co-curated with Dustin Dennis and Christopher Ulivo, TSA Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2012
In Search Of… Group Exhibition Co-curated with Dustin Dennis and Christopher Ulivo
Rhodes College Clough-Hansen Gallery, Memphis, TN Kansas University Art &Design Gallery, Lawrence, KS fiscally sponsored by New York Foundation for the Arts through Artspire. http://www.blurb.com/books/4177136-in-search-of catalog
Recognition / Awards at VT
2023 Architecture, Arts & Design College Award for Teaching Excellence, Virginia Tech 2022 Women & Minority Artist and Scholars Lecture Series Grant 2022 AAD INSTRUCTIONAL INNOVATION CHALLENGE MINI-GRANT 2021 CAUS INSTRUCTIONAL INNOVATION CHALLENGE MINI-GRANT
Residencies
Participant Summer Residency Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan Maine Stove Works Residency, Chattanooga, TN Vital Spaces studio residency and workshops, Santa Fe NM Fellowship and Residency Wassaic Project, Wassaic NY Winter Resident - Painting Studio Assistant Penland School of Crafts, Bakersville, NC
Selected Conference Papers & Sessions, Visiting Artist Lectures
2023
Anachronist Cookbook: Ancient Ingredients, Contemporary Practice online virtual session College Art Association Panel Chair
2022
Visiting Artist Lecture Looking, Seeking // Webs of Connection, Lenfest Theater, Lexington, VA New Critical Perspectives in Contemporary Art - SECAC Annual Conference panel chair, Baltimore MD
2020
SECAC Conference panel Glimpses and Decoys: Painters Seeking Meaning through Interplay of Image and Material paper: Beyond the Sea* (presented online) 2020
Corona Care + Interview, Field Projects, NYC/Online
Virtual Visiting Artist / Studio Q&A: Kansas City Art Institute, Emerson College, Western Oregon University, SUNY
Purchase College, Hamden Sydney College, Wellesley College
2019
Visiting Artist and Workshop Oberlin College
2018
Spontaneous classrooms: Improv, design thinking and action in a relational teaching practice - Panel Discussion session co-chair, CAA Conference 2018 Resident Workshops: Pastel, Tempera and Gesso - Fresco Studio, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture,
2017
STATIONTOSTATION Panel Discussion (curator/moderator) Panel included Sarah Lasley, EE Ikeler, Julie Rooney and David Wolske - Grunwald Gallery, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
2016
Visiting Artist Lecture and Critiques Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois Visiting Artist Lecture and Critiques Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT
2015
“Current Perspectives” Visiting Artist Lecture and Critiques Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
2012
Visiting Artist and Panel Discussion Blount Auditorium, Rhodes College, Memphis, TN Visiting Artist and Panel Discussion Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
Profesional Organizations / Memberships
College Art Association
SECAC
MAPC - Mid American Print Council
Eco Art Space
Education
MFA, Painting, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence RI
Collegiate Teaching Certificate, Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning at Brown University, Providence, RI
BFA, Painting, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
