Amy Carani

Amy Carani began exploring with bold color abstract compositions and designs about twenty five years ago. When painting, she does not use tape or masks to create the shapes. Amy developed a painting system of working with rulers and compass bows to define the blocks of color with black acrylic paint. The black line work outer edge is in fact freehand with a small brush.

Her paintings have been on display at The Dubuque Museum of Art, The Wright Museum of Art, The Trout Museum of Art, Rockford Art Museum, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, various University of Wisconsin Art Galleries, and a few art galleries in the Midwest.

Influences include, but are not limited to, music, pop art, pop culture, comic books, nature, math, and science.

Amy Carani lives in Monroe, WI with her supportive husband and beautiful daughter.

Visual art as a whole does not have the mass appeal of popular culture. Pop culture – especially music – is a common ground that I share with many. I adapt popular music or popular cultural references by abstracting the themes on to canvas.

With my work, I wanted to produce clean and precise paintings with a bold visual impact. My work is typically on square canvas in a wide range of sizes. Colorful shapes are formed and outlined with sharply defined black acrylic paint that help guide the theme while telling a story.

I developed a painting system that consist of rulers and compass bows to assist in my desired precision. My final step in my painting process is when I paint the black outline edges freehand with a small brush. While I do not, most suspect that I use tape to create the black outlines due to the precise nature of my paintings.

When connecting pop culture themes and my geometric painting style, I create an easy accessibility for those that may not be familiar with abstraction in visual art. The accessibility also helps create new art collectors and generates a positive impact for the art community, too.

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