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Tuttle Gallery
Accumulation: Works by Amy Boone-McCreesh
Tuttle Gallery | January 17 to February 14
The Tuttle Gallery is now showing Accumulation: Works by Amy Boone-McCreesh. At the show's opening on Thursday, January 16, the artist provided insights into her creative process and the techniques behind her stunning work. Earlier this month, she worked with students in the classroom, sharing her expertise and inspiring creativity.
About the Artist
Amy Boone-McCreesh has long been loyal to collage-based processes and the precarious nature of this work—the rough and sometimes chaotic ways in which pieces come together parallel a lack of preciousness and ‘get it done’ attitude often embraced in the home. Drawing inspiration from acts of mending, fixing, and patching, she weaves these gestures into her exploration of identity and self-expression.
Her art examines the visual markers of class and socioeconomic status—clothing, homes, and decor—highlighting how taste and access shape our environments. Through humor and sincerity, she uses bold, repetitive motifs to explore how beauty, once free in nature, has been commodified as a marker of success. References to tropes like animal-skin rugs, lavish views, and luxurious interiors are exaggerated with vibrant colors, textures, and materials, to question the invisible lines that define visual taste as it relates to class.
In her newest works, Boone-McCreesh adopts the size and format of cloth napkins and historical sewing samplers (20” x 20”), continuing her exploration of domesticity and decoration. Inspired by 18th- and 19th-century samplers, which once symbolized a woman’s domestic skills and social status, she reinterprets their tradition. Her pieces incorporate personal elements, like age and creation date, while blending craft aesthetics with the abstract language of contemporary painting. Boone-McCreesh’s samplers reference her own existence as an artist and woman working in the 21st century. The results are personal while adopting a broader abstract painting language with the aesthetics and tradition of craft.
Stop by the gallery and check out the exhibit!
About the Gallery
The Tuttle Gallery is the premiere display space for student and professional art exhibitions. Each year, the Tuttle Gallery features exhibits of original works by McDonogh students, alumni, and visiting artists whose work has been displayed nationally. Located on the third floor of the Edward St. John Student Center, the Tuttle Gallery is open during school hours. The gallery holds extended hours for exhibit openings. Dave Radford is Director and Curator.
The Tuttle Gallery, opened in 1980 as a memorial to Stiles Ewing Tuttle, was originally located in Lyle Building. Longtime Art Department Head E. Carey Kenney, who passed away in 2012, was its first curator.