Amanda McDonald Stern, Modular Form Trio, 2023, Blown glass
AMANDA MCDONALD STERN
Stern’s keen sense of design enlivens her pure, clearly articulated and multilayered vessels. Her modular container pieces are formed by nesting volumes of color and shape that become figurative, as though one is peering through corporeal layers into the heart and core of a body, or at a futuristic, elongated face.
BIO
Born in 1980 in Cincinnati, Ohio, Amanda studied painting at SUNY Purchase and later went on to receive her BFA in sculpture from Jacksonville University. She has studied glass and sculpture at Pratt Fine Arts Center, Pilchuck Glass School, Corning Museum of Glass, Pittsburgh Glass Center, Alfred University and the University of Miami. Her career in the arts and manufacturing across mediums has led to her immense interest in how we relate to material objects, to our surrounding man made and natural environments and to one another. She explores her interest in relationships through the assemblage of multiple parts and use of color and line. Amanda currently lives and works in los Angeles, CA.
