Amy Nelder

United States  • 1971

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Amy Nelder is a versatile painter of diverse genres, who has been engaged in the last 13 years with contemporary still-life painting she calls “Pop Trompe L'eoil", as well as, in recent years, an empowering partner-series about bodily and psychic autonomy she paints with her daughter called “That's NOT My Name (Honey/Baby/Sugar)".

Critics and art writers have credited Nelder with radically updating the nature of today's still life to leave behind what one might call the hackneyed, old-fashioned subject matter of yore – bunches of grapes and flowers, for example – to replace it with hip, debonair, au courant imagery. While Old Master still lifes may fetch millions of dollars, executed in the most expert and astonishing ways, the time has come, these observers claim, for the still life to speak to today's audience in today's effervescent language. Timothy Anglin-Burgard refers to Nelder's “wonderful tension" in the de Young Museum's virtual tour of 2020's “De Young Open" exhibition", in which Amy's “Apples & Honey, 2020" was a featured work.

Nelder meets the challenge with this past year's Covid19 series as well as the past 13 years of her Pop-oriented, romance-skewed scenes of domestic life, wherein lipstick-kissed wine glasses and haute couture meet Scrabble boards, cereal boxes, and the mess of baking chocolate chip cookies. Her more romantic portraits are often of a blissful couple navigating the realities of domestic life is recorded with a kind of hipster synecdoche – the Greek concept in poetics of using stand-in symbols to represent a bigger, more meaningful whole. More recently, working-motherhood, Covid19, and empowering pro-femme dialogues have dominated her pop still lifes in an elegant dovetailing dance with the “That's NOT My Name" works she creates with her daughter.

Here is a truly superb draughtsman, who can draw like an Old Master, while at the same time delivering a still life genre that is all about the here and now. In her San Francisco studio, one is treated to seeing Nelder's actual still life props, set up on a table. Watching her transmit the model's image to canvas with stunning realist accuracy is both fascinating and uncanny. She purposely seems to pick the hardest subject matter to conquer: sterling silver, glass with its many-faceted reflective qualities, elaborate typefaces curving round bottles, and the like. Here is a Raphael realist, whose subject ranges from a tongue in cheek dialogue about the current pandemic, to a pop-fueled cupidity, pulled off with amazing chic and glamour, yet as down to earth as your last date.


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Painting, A Scotchy Little Christmas, Amy Nelder

A Scotchy Little Christmas

Amy Nelder

Painting - 12 x 12 x 1.5 inch

$2,550

Print, Wordplay, Amy Nelder

Wordplay

Amy Nelder

Print - 30 x 40 inch

$1,950

Print, Honey, I'm Home!, Amy Nelder

Honey, I'm Home!

Amy Nelder

Print - 30 x 40 inch

$1,950

Painting, La Dolce Vita, Amy Nelder

La Dolce Vita

Amy Nelder

Painting - 30 x 30 inch

$9,000

Painting, Afterparty, Amy Nelder

Afterparty

Amy Nelder

Painting - 36 x 36 inch

$14,500

Painting, Bubbles and bonbons, Amy Nelder

Bubbles and bonbons

Amy Nelder

Painting - 20 x 20 x 1.5 inch

$6,800

Print, Orchidpop, Amy Nelder

Orchidpop

Amy Nelder

Print - 48 x 30 inch

$2,500

Print, A Little Extra Sugar, Amy Nelder

A Little Extra Sugar

Amy Nelder

Print - 30 x 60 inch

$2,750

Painting, Midnight Snacks, Amy Nelder

Midnight Snacks

Amy Nelder

Painting - 30 x 48 inch

$15,000

Painting, Bunnies and guns #7, Amy Nelder

Bunnies and guns #7

Amy Nelder

Painting - 20 x 20 x 1.5 inch

$6,500

Print, Just the Right Red, Amy Nelder

Just the Right Red

Amy Nelder

Print - 16 x 16 inch

$775

Print, Dessert First, Amy Nelder

Dessert First

Amy Nelder

Print - 40 x 30 inch

$1,950

Print, Sorry I'm late to Zoom, I was disinfecting my (organic) oranges, Amy Nelder

Sorry I'm late to Zoom, I was disinfecting my (organic) oranges

Amy Nelder

Print - 24 x 24 inch

$1,300

Print, Sorry I can't come to the phone right now, I'm Lysoling my bananas, Amy Nelder

Sorry I can't come to the phone right now, I'm Lysoling my bananas

Amy Nelder

Print - 24 x 24 inch

$1,300

Painting, Candy and Margaritas, Amy Nelder

Candy and Margaritas

Amy Nelder

Painting - 24 x 48 inch

$12,500

Painting, Red Lips and Chocolate, Amy Nelder

Red Lips and Chocolate

Amy Nelder

Painting - 18 x 18 inch

$5,700

Print, Sunday Morning Donut Run, Amy Nelder

Sunday Morning Donut Run

Amy Nelder

Print - 36 x 60 inch

$3,500

Print, Your Kitchen, Or Mine?, Amy Nelder

Your Kitchen, Or Mine?

Amy Nelder

Print - 24 x 48 inch

$2,500

Print, After the Black and White Ball, Amy Nelder

After the Black and White Ball

Amy Nelder

Print - 30 x 60 inch

$2,600

Painting, Kitchen Secrets, Amy Nelder

Kitchen Secrets

Amy Nelder

Painting - 30 x 48 x 1.5 inch

$15,000

Painting, Fertility and Resurrection #2, Amy Nelder

Fertility and Resurrection #2

Amy Nelder

Painting - 16 x 20 inch

$5,500

Painting, Build-your-own Eden #4: Burning it Down, Amy Nelder

Build-your-own Eden #4: Burning it Down

Amy Nelder

Painting - 36 x 36 inch

$14,500

Painting, Snacktime, Amy Nelder

Snacktime

Amy Nelder

Painting - 24 x 60 inch

$12,000

Painting, Bunnies and guns #6 (Bunnies, Bubbles and Guns), Amy Nelder

Bunnies and guns #6 (Bunnies, Bubbles and Guns)

Amy Nelder

Painting - 20 x 16 x 1.5 inch

$6,000

Painting, Bunnies and guns #8, Amy Nelder

Bunnies and guns #8

Amy Nelder

Painting - 24 x 18 x 1.5 inch

$6,200

Painting, That's Not My Name #15, Amy Nelder

That's Not My Name #15

Amy Nelder

Painting - 48 x 36 inch

$7,900

Painting, Bunnies and Guns #5, Amy Nelder

Bunnies and Guns #5

Amy Nelder

Painting - 24 x 18 x 1.5 inch

$7,450

Painting, Bigger than Warhol, Amy Nelder

Bigger than Warhol

Amy Nelder

Painting - 20 x 20 inch

$6,500

Painting, Kidding myself with sprinkles, Amy Nelder

Kidding myself with sprinkles

Amy Nelder

Painting - 16 x 16 inch

Sold

Painting, Perfecto III, Amy Nelder

Perfecto III

Amy Nelder

Painting - 24 x 24 x 1.5 inch

Sold

Painting, Into The Light, Amy Nelder

Into The Light

Amy Nelder

Painting - 16 x 28 inch

Sold

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Who is the artist?

Amy Nelder is a versatile painter of diverse genres, who has been engaged in the last 13 years with contemporary still-life painting she calls “Pop Trompe L'eoil", as well as, in recent years, an empowering partner-series about bodily and psychic autonomy she paints with her daughter called “That's NOT My Name (Honey/Baby/Sugar)".

Critics and art writers have credited Nelder with radically updating the nature of today's still life to leave behind what one might call the hackneyed, old-fashioned subject matter of yore – bunches of grapes and flowers, for example – to replace it with hip, debonair, au courant imagery. While Old Master still lifes may fetch millions of dollars, executed in the most expert and astonishing ways, the time has come, these observers claim, for the still life to speak to today's audience in today's effervescent language. Timothy Anglin-Burgard refers to Nelder's “wonderful tension" in the de Young Museum's virtual tour of 2020's “De Young Open" exhibition", in which Amy's “Apples & Honey, 2020" was a featured work.

Nelder meets the challenge with this past year's Covid19 series as well as the past 13 years of her Pop-oriented, romance-skewed scenes of domestic life, wherein lipstick-kissed wine glasses and haute couture meet Scrabble boards, cereal boxes, and the mess of baking chocolate chip cookies. Her more romantic portraits are often of a blissful couple navigating the realities of domestic life is recorded with a kind of hipster synecdoche – the Greek concept in poetics of using stand-in symbols to represent a bigger, more meaningful whole. More recently, working-motherhood, Covid19, and empowering pro-femme dialogues have dominated her pop still lifes in an elegant dovetailing dance with the “That's NOT My Name" works she creates with her daughter.

Here is a truly superb draughtsman, who can draw like an Old Master, while at the same time delivering a still life genre that is all about the here and now. In her San Francisco studio, one is treated to seeing Nelder's actual still life props, set up on a table. Watching her transmit the model's image to canvas with stunning realist accuracy is both fascinating and uncanny. She purposely seems to pick the hardest subject matter to conquer: sterling silver, glass with its many-faceted reflective qualities, elaborate typefaces curving round bottles, and the like. Here is a Raphael realist, whose subject ranges from a tongue in cheek dialogue about the current pandemic, to a pop-fueled cupidity, pulled off with amazing chic and glamour, yet as down to earth as your last date.

What is Amy Nelder’s artistic movement?

The artistic movements of the artists are: Hyperrealism, Contemporary Still Life

When was Amy Nelder born?

The year of birth of the artist is: 1971