Amy DiGennaro is a professional artist based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, whose primary studio practice is works on paper. DiGennaro was a 2005 recipient of the Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative Grant and in 2007-2008, was awarded the prestigious McKnight Visual Arts Fellowship. She has exhibited her work locally and nationally and has been teaching college art and art history since 1996. She earned her BFA from Syracuse University in 1990, and her MFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University in 1998. Between degrees, Amy completed the American Arts Course at Sotheby’s in New York City. Although the primary focus of her art and education has been painting and drawing, Amy has also concentrated on art history, theory and criticism and has created work in printmaking, ceramics, performance, sound and video. She graduated with an MA in counseling psychology from Adler Graduate School in 2014, and is a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist, Registered Art Therapist, and Somatic Experiencing practitioner specializing in trauma therapy using somatic narrative practice and has a private practice where she consults with people to support them living the lives they want to live.
Amy DiGennaro
is open on
Friday, Saturday & Sunday of Art-A-Whirl weekend.
Art-a-Whirl 2023 Open Studio Schedule at
648 Lowry Ave NE, Minneapolis, MN 55418
Friday, 5/18, 5-10PM
Saturday, 5/19, 12-8PM
Sunday, 5/20, 12-5PM
Since I have beloveds who are high risk categories, please do not visit if you have symptoms of or have been exposed to any communicable illnesses. Masks preferred. I reserve the right to limit the amount of visitors in the studio at one time.
Parking will be allowed on Lowry during open studio times, but it’s like the Indy 500 on Lowry Ave NE, so you may prefer to park on Jefferson and walk down Lowry past the door in teh center of the building to the door on the West end of the building on Lowry, closer to Washington Ave. Hope to see you there!
Online Sales
Amy DiGennaro does not currently take online orders. Email or call for purchase information.
Commissions
Amy DiGennaro takes commissions.
Image Gallery
2008, graphite on paper, 40” x 60”
Image title: After the So-called Hours of Philip the Fair, Transfiguration of Pulcinella
Image alternate text: Graphite drawing of a light-skinned, bearded fanciful character who is pointing to his own heart out of which unfurls a banner bearing no text. He wear a Pulcinella (dunce) cap and a shawl that looks saintly as does his pose. He has a shadowy head that looks like a hive of eyes coming out one of his ears and hanging ominously over him. This image is superimposed over maps and grounded on what looks like a stage. The image has a wide border around it, flanked by columns where various symbolic elements: nettle plants, garlic bulbs, dried cured meets, Wolf-headed cherubs and a narrative depiction of St. Philip and the Dragon at the top along with several tree stumps with the ghosts of their trees in a landscape around it.
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2008, graphite on paper, 40” x 60”
Image title: Marilyn the Sedulous, Hours of Bona Sforza
Image alternate text: A light-skinned, dark-haired woman in a bathroom is the central figure of a graphit e(pencil) drawing witha n elaborate border in the style of a "double wedding ring" quilt with cloth patterns that are abstract but include things like ladders and strange balloons. In the quilted medallions of the border are strange symbols like an "ear-horn" and a ladder floating. The woman holds a watch and sews on her own sleeve. Her body is a tree trunk woth an opening and she has a strange shadowy head coming out of her ear.
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2008, graphite on paper, 30” x 45”
Image title: Christine the Intrepid, Hours of Bona Sforza
Image alternate text: A light-skinned, short-haired non-binary person in a pair of Mounty pants and high boots with a nest on their head and a bundle of sticks on their back tries to tie parachutes onto two small children in bird suits in a nest. The figure is drawn in graphite (pencil) in great details and looks somewhat transparent as it is superimposed over an antique map of Canada and grounded in what looks like a campground landscape. The drawing is bordered by an elaborate border formed by trees and narrative vignettes such as two children doing something by a puddle, a child huddled by some stairs, a rustic cabin in the woods; and at the bottom, the central figure sleeping in a tank top and boxer shorts surrounded by many figures that appear to be like nymphs or fairies guarding them.
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2007, graphite on paper, 30” x 45”
Image title: After the So-Called Hours of Philip the Fair
Image alternate text: Graphite drawing of a light-skinned fanciful character who is pregnant and wears a tutu and has a house on their head. They have a shadowy head that looks like a hive of eyes coming out of one of their ears and hanging ominously over them.This image is superimposed over maps and grounded in a medieval looking walled garden landscape outside of which stylized boats sail on water. The image has a wide border around it, in which various flowers and leaves, fruits and insects have been drawn in graphite (pencil). there are also medallions in the border depicting various narrative scenes such as a gender-bending (bearded and breasted) godlike figure knitting at the top; a bearded man in a tutu seeming to pray by a large pasta pot out of which arises a shadowy head figure and behind which is the image of an elderly woman smiling, the same man kneeling in front of a burning bush out of whihc the gender-bending god figure hands him a banjo while wearing a T-shirt that reads: "Feminist Chicks Dig Me"; and on the bottom, that same man points down at a figure in a grave wearing a suit and Groucho Mark nose and glasses).
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