Visiting Professor
Art
Amanda Morgado is originally from Birmingham, Alabama. She obtained her BFA from the University of Alabama at Birmingham and her MFA from the University of South Carolina focusing in studio art. She is now an instructor at Austin Peay State University. Her body of work deals with the exploration of liminal spaces through the combination of both new media and traditional processes. By combining these processes, she is able to address the significant, transitional, and intangible qualities of memory. Her work often takes the form of installations due to the constant state of change that installations are able to undergo in order to further the liminality of the artwork.
Home Within a Home
2020
Laser cut fabric
17 x 40 inches
"My work explores what I refer to as liminal spaces: transitions between memory and the physical world. After my grandmother’s death, returning to her home made me aware of how memories can transform familiar spaces, creating an overlap between the tangible and intangible. I explore this relationship through drawing, sculpture, and new media, often using digital fabrication as a process that moves between physical and digital forms".
"For this piece, I explore the idea of a home within a home by creating a cut-paper wallpaper pattern and projecting video of a spider constructing its web onto it. The spider becomes a natural maker working within an artificial, man-made space. Although the web itself is not visible, the spider’s movements suggest its creation, emphasizing absence and presence. By combining observable patterns found in nature with constructed patterns, the work considers how space shapes what we see while also holding memories and experiences that remain unseen".