Statement & Biography AMANDA SAGE’s art is a language in which she converses with the world, spirit, herself and the people around her. Subliminal, whispering or screaming it is a guide & her teacher as it patiently waits for her to listen.
Amanda was born April 19, 1978 in Denver, Colorado to her mother YOU and father Jackson, with two brothers still to come. Her childhood was filled with healthy, tropical, media-free, creative freedom in Florida without the distraction of formal schooling until she entered 4th grade in Colorado. After finishing high school in Boulder, Colorado in 1996 at the Shining Mountain Waldorf School (where ‘coincidentally’ her high school art teacher was the Fantastic/Visionary artist HIKARU, her travels and projects bounced her between Bali, Indonesia and Vienna, Austria. Sam Bull from Leap Now helped guide her in connecting with the revolutionary midwife Robin Lim in Bali, and initiating the first contact with the artist and teacher Philip Rubinov Jacobson. After graduating she went to Bali as a volunteer for close to a year, and amongst other projects & exotic distractions, illustrated an herbal book with over 70 indigenous plants and herbs for the natural Birthing Clinic, now called Bumi Sehat. In this time she also extended production of her Batik clothing and design project that she had started in high school with her dear friend Leilea Satori, and this continued on amidst bouncing around the globe between the US, Vienna and Bali till the year 2000.
Through meeting Philip Rubinov Jacobson in 1996 and by his introduction and guidance she was invited to do a private 2 year intensive experiment to study the techniques of painting and etching of the old masters as an apprentice under the classical/fantastic artist Michael Fuchs in Vienna Austria.
Following this in 1999 he introduced her to his father, internationally famed godfather of Fantastic and Visionary Art, Ernst Fuchs and has since been a student and painting assistant on various projects throughout Europe. Michael taught her to “see” the world around her through the brush and the Old Master techniques in painting. Ernst has reminded her to “listen”, which has opened up other ways of ”seeing” and perceiving.
Since 2000 Amanda has been blessed with sharing a beautiful studio in the WUK, a self-governed culture house in Vienna (the biggest one of it’s kind in Europe), with her friend and colleague Paula Aguilera Pacheco a sculptor, painter and animator originally from Chile. The WUK has been an amazing playground for learning, creating and discovering new systems of group-interaction and presentation. She served for 2 years as a member of the Board of Directors of the WUK, and then for 6 years as Administrator of one of the major sections of the studio’s and workshops together with Paula, as well as initiating and organizing various events the largest being the ‘MAZE’ an open studio’s event in 2005 & 6. This has provided her with community, as well as space and time to discover her own visions, share questions and absorb information.
She has exhibited Solo and in Group Shows in Galleries, Salons and in various projects/events worldwide since 1999, including London, Vienna, Munich, Berlin, Bali, Colorado, Seattle, San Francisco and most exotically at Burning Man , hanging next to renowned visionary artists and friends such as Martina Hoffmann and Robert Venosa.
ARTIST STATEMENT:
Through my work I aim to help break apart the ‘illusion of separation’, to challenge the viewer to question, and evolve out of ignorance, conditioning and ingrained genetic habits. In life I strive to take responsibility for the effect of my existence, and through my actions and images, inspire others to think/dream beyond their immediate capacity. Ultimately I seek to create portals that open to the infinite possibilities of being and expressing, so that we may remember and re-discover who we are, where we originate from and where we are headed. My aspiration is to paint messages, visions and narratives that communicate with an ‘older & wiser us’, awakening ancient memory; as well as the ‘present us’, that we may grow up and accept the responsibilities towards ourselves, each other and the rest of existence on this planet… nowJ
Solo Exhibitions:
· 1999 – at the SMWS – Boulder, Colorado
· 2000 – at The Gym – Klagenfurt, Austria
· 2001 – „Four Years Vienna“, at the Ernst Fuchs Gallery – Vienna
· 2001 – at WIFI – Wien, Vienna
· 2002 – at Galerie 10, Vienna
· 2003 – “Portraits- another you staring back” at folge_eins, Vienna
· 2003 – at Galerie Hexenhaus, Neuburg an d. Donau, Germany
· 2003 – at the Generali Center, St. Poelten, Austria.
· 2004 – at Gaisbauer in the Shopping Center ,Steffl’, Vienna.
· 2005 – ‘Salongefluester’, reading and exhibition at Hotel Altstadt, Vienna.
· 2005 – at PAWIS Winery, Freyburg, Germany.
· 2005 – at ‘Igler winery’ as a part of ‘Vitikult’, Deutschkreutz, Austria.
· 2005 – at Kultursalon Hoerbiger, Vienna.
· 2005 – at Atelier Reflektion, Munich, Germany.
· 2006 – “Dreams, Memories & Visions” at the Flava Lounge, Ubud, Bali, Indonesia.
· 2006 – “Dreams, Memories & Visions” at Galerie 10, Vienna.
· 2007 – “Stuecke” at PAWIS winery, Freyburg, Germany.
· 2007 – “Verni-Sage” at Galerie G1, Vienna.
Group Exhibitions:
· 1999 – “Global Color – a show in batik” at the Vienna Globe – Vienna.
· 2000 – “100 Sacred Visions” with Honorable Mention – Payerbach, Austria.
· 2000 – annual exhibition by “The Society for the Art of Imagination” in the Mall Galleries, London, England.
· 2000 – “WUK – Werkstätten Jahres Ausstellung” in the WUK – Vienna.
· 2001 – Co-coordinator and participant in “Unterwelt”, for 20 years WUK, Vienna.
· 2002 – Co-coordinator and participant in “F.Formen” at the WUK, Vienna.
· 2003 – “K.Kunst”, at Leisserhof, Burgenland, Austria.
· 2003 – “SOHO in Ottakring” with the WUK, Vienna.
· 2004 – memorial exhibition for Cheibane Wague at the WUK, Vienna.
· 2004 – “Social Box 2”, WUK, Vienna.
· 2005 – “Portrait Workshop/Studio, Theater & Exhibition” at the NUU, Vienna.
· 2005 – Co-coordinator, initiator and participant by ‘MAZE’ open studio’s at the WUK, Vienna.
· 2006 – Co-coordinator and participant with ‘X-Raum’, Exhibition and Symposium with handicapped artists from B.Balance and artists from the WUK, at the WUK, Vienna.
· 2006 – Co-coordinator & participant of ‘MAZE’ 25 years WUK, at the WUK, Vienna.
· 2006 – “WienBerlin”, at the Kunsthalle in the European Culture Center (ECC), Berlin, Germany.
· 2007 – “Gric, WESSI, La Speranza & Sage”, Galerie 10, Vienna.
· 2007 – at Entheon Village, Burning Man Festival, Nevada.
· 2007 – Presentation of ‘EPIC’ with NoMe Edonna at Earth Dance Festival, Northern California.
· 2008 – “Gate Gate: Portals & Passages by Root 1 CMC” at the Gallery Route One, in Point Reyes, California.
2008 – “Interdimensional Art Show”, with IAM & Tribe 13, Seattle, Washington.
· 2008 – “Extensions” with NoMe Edonna, at Madusalon, San Francisco, California.
· 2008 – “SURROTICA” with NoMe Edonna, at Galerie 10, Vienna.
Links:
Beinart.org
Galerie 10
MYSPACE
DEVIANTART
TRIBE
Psygarden
WUK
 Self Portrait in Green - 2008 Vienna
 Amanda Sage, Monument Valley March 2008
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