Amber Rane Sibley is a New York based artist and ceramic sculptor. Sibley’s work explores the unexamined imprisonments that result from narrative identity. The figures that populate her work are surrogates for the collective. They are vessels of self-delusion and self-mythology, crippled creatures debilitated by their own will. They are superior limb-less and nonprehensile with often voluntarily obstructed vision. And yet they make no effort to change their lot. As Sibley excavates the darkened caves of the professed chosen, spiritually special, or the habitually inert she discovers the frightened inner child seeking bedtimes stories to quell the tortures of waking-life. She offers them portraits to embody the fear, the unknowns, and the examination of their actualities. And so the figures become deceptively hopeful, candied representations of the not-knowing, of the un-chosen, and of the ignorant. Do we greet them then as helpless companions in need of aid or the dark mirrors we’ve avoided?
Amber Rane Sibley began her career in theatre and television as a prop master, creating props, puppets, and costumes for shows like Blue Man Group and NBC’s Sunnyside Up Show. She holds a BFA from Hunter College and an MFA from Tulane University.
Amber’s work has been featured in the New York Times, Hyperallergic, Ceramics Now, and Whitewall as well as the NADA New York and NADA Miami Art Fairs.
Selected exhibitions include: Solo exhibitions at Fierman Gallery, New York, NY; Rosenberg Gallery, Hempstead, NY; and Carroll Gallery, New Orleans. LA. Group exhibitions at AMANT, New York, NY; Arc Gallery, San Francisco, CA; First Street Gallery, New York, NY; Gallery Petite, New York, NY; Leubsdorf Gallery, New York, NY and BWAC Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.
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