The Frye Art Museum is pleased to present Amie Siegel: Interiors,12 an exhibition in which the artist considers objects and their perceived value, investigating undercurrents of power and desire active within connoisseurship and image-making. Through the complex, meticulously constructed works that are her signature, Siegel explores how hierarchies of ownership, display, and the production of images—constructs of the human mind as well as the museum—influence cultural and aesthetic worth.
- 1. The Frye Art Museum will collaborate with the Portland Art Museum on a catalogue coinciding with a forthcoming solo exhibition that will premiere Siegel's new work, Heavy Metal, at PAM in 2018.
- 2. Amie Siegel (b. 1974, Chicago, USA) works between film, photography, performance and installation. Recent solo exhibitions include the South London Gallery; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum Villa Stuck, Munich; Kunstmuseum Stuttgart and the MAK, Vienna. Siegel has participated in group exhibitions at Witte de With, Rotterdam; the Whitney Museum of American Art, NY; Hayward Gallery, London; KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin; CCA Wattis, San Francisco; MoMA PS1; MAXXI Museum, Rome; Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; and the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. Her work is in public collections including the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Tate Modern, and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Her films have been screened at the Cannes, Berlin, Toronto and New York Film Festivals, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. She has been a fellow of the DAAD Berliner-Künstlerprogramm and the Guggenheim Foundation, the Fulton Fellow at The Film Study Center at Harvard University, a recipient of the ICA Boston's Foster Prize, Sundance Institute and Creative Capital Awards.