Amy Archer

Amy traces her fascination with creating ABSTRACT Photo Murals back to age seven, when she was in a time-out in her bedroom on a rainy afternoon. She started playing puppets with two mirrors, had them kiss, and saw infinity.

She is an acclaimed photographer who presently specializes in ABSTRACT Photo Murals. Her work has been commissioned and acquired by many public and private collectors. She is also known for her “Place Portraits” of people’s homes, an art form she originated. Seventy of these are featured in legendary decorator Bunny Williams’ book SCRAPBOOK FOR LIVING. Amy has shown extensively, most often at the prestigious Augen Gallery.

Her photographs and ABSTRACTS have been featured in magazines such as Departures (cover), Architectural Record, and House Beautiful.  Her “Swimming Pool” ABSTRACT is in the Portland Art Museum, Oregon. 

Her work has been bought by, among other corporations, Robert A.M. Stern Architects; Related, New York; and American Express.

Architectural Record wrote of her ABSTRACTS: “…her Murals embody the essence of a place, but also provide another way to view it.  Indeed, another incarnation.” And The New York Times said of SCRAPBOOK FOR LIVING: “[It’s] chock full of beautiful and instructive photographs.”  (link to book) 

Amy has photographed in locations as diverse as Mali and Blue Hill, Maine. She currently lives just outside New York City, where she is working on her next collection of ABSTRACT Photo Murals. She adds continuously to her ongoing 300+ project, “Quiet Photographs.”

PROCESS

Amy makes her ABSTRACT Photo Murals by arranging uncropped 3×5-inch hardcopies of one or more of her photographs on an “easel,” a large piece of white museum board. The photos could be of the toys in a swimming pool, empty eggshells, office files, or a birch tree in the spring.  It is then digitized and enlarged.