Parallel Lines - photo-based encaustic paintings
(self-portrait happenings with a prison bed in Toronto), with an interactive sculpture installation entitled 15 Minutes of Fame featuring the bed and suitcase depicted in the paintings.
Cube Gallery exhibited the first ten paintings in this series, in 2009.
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LockDown, 2005, features nine sculptures created with prison beds from Kingston Penitentiary for Women; door hardware, air diffusers, office dividers and other objects recycled from government buildings.
LockDown was commissioned as part of an art/recycling initiative utilizing discarded materials provided by Public Works & Government Services Canada and Correctional Service of Canada.
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| LockDown was exhibited at the Art Gallery of Algoma in May 2005.
Coupled with LockDown was an installation entitled 15 Minutes of Fame - an interactive installation wherein viewers were invited to juxtapose assorted objects with a prison bed to create personal artistic statements.
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Where usually a visitor might spend an average of 80 seconds interacting with a work of art, 15 Minutes of Fame succeeded in engaging visitors for up to 30 minutes! |
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Glove Forest began in 1998 at the Edmonton Art Gallery as an installation of gloves donated from visitors.
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Evolving, Glove Forest was exhibited at the Royal Ontario Museum as a series of hanging glove trees with the continued donation of gloves from visitors.
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In 2002 Glove Forest evolved to become an interactive surround sound audio/video and sculpture installation addressing loss, our environment, and accountability.
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Glove Forest was exhibited at The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Thunder Bay Art Gallery in 2002; and at the Art Gallery of Algoma in 2003.
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O Canada |
In 1995 Amanta created a soundsculpture map of Canada entitled O Canada for exhibition at the World Trade Center in Taiwan, commissioned by the Canadian Trade Office in Taipei. |
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