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Amy Franceschini

Selected Works

Bio

Amy Franceschini is an artist and designer who creates work that facilitates encounter, exchange, and tactile forms of inquiry by calling into question the "certainties" of a given time or place where a work is situated. An overarching theme in her work is a perceived conflict between "humans" and "nature." Her projects reveal the history and currents of contradictions related to this divide by challenging systems of exchange and the tools we use to "hunt" and "gather." Using this as a starting point, she provides new tools for an audience to gain insight into deeper fields of inquiry; not only to imagine, but also to participate in and initiate change in the places we live.

In 1995, Amy founded Futurefarmers, an international collective of artists, activists, researchers, farmers, and architects who work together to propose alternatives to the social, political, and environmental organization of space. Their design studio serves as a platform to support art projects, an artist in residence program and their research interests. Futurefarmers use various media to deconstruct systems to visualize and understand their intrinsic logics: food systems, public transportation, education. Through this disassembly they find new narratives and reconfigurations that form alternatives to the principles that once dominated these systems. They have created temporary schools, books, bus tours, and large-scale exhibitions internationally.

Amy received her BFA from San Francisco State University in Photography and her MFA from Stanford University. She has taught in the visual arts graduate programs at California College of the Arts and Stanford University. Amy is a 2009 Guggenheim fellow and has received grants from the Cultural Innovation Fund, Creative Work Fund, and the Graham Foundation.

Future Farmers

Media

EXHIBITIONS

Oars for The Reverse Ark II,

2010

Reclaimed floorboards and plywood

Dimensions variable

INQUIRE

Adriane Colburn

Alex Zecca

Alice Shaw

Amy Franceschini

Andrew Romanoff

Bonanza

Carson Ellis

David Hytone

Fox Hysen

Graham Gillmore

Inez Storer

Jason Jägel

Jason Middlebrook

Jeffrey Sincich

Jered Sprecher

Jim Melchert

Johanna St. Clair

Jonn Herschend

Josh Jefferson

Kim Bennett

Lowell Darling

Martin McMurray

Michelle Grabner

Nathaniel Parsons

Nathaniel Russell

Rebeca Bollinger

Reed Anderson

Rex Ray Estate

Richard Shaw

Scott Hewicker

Shaun O'Dell

Taravat Talepasand

Thomas Heinser

Tucker Nichols

Wayne Smith

Zuzana Licko

Ala Ebtekar

Amy Ellingson

Ann Chamberlain

Ari Marcopoulos

Barry Gifford

Brad Killam

Bruno Fazzolari

Carol Selter

Charles Linder

Cliff Hengst

Darren Waterston

David Perry

Deborah Oropallo

Double Strength

Elliot Anderson

Gay Outlaw

Harrell Fletcher

Kara Maria

Libby Black

Lynn Hershman Leeson

Margaret Kilgallen

Off Hours

Rudy Vanderlans

Serena Cole

Sonny Smith

Xylor Jane

editions

exhibitions

Selected Works

Bio

Media

EXHIBITIONS

Amy Franceschini

Picnic Conversation Amy Franceschini and Michael Swaine,

Picnic Conversation with Peter L. Galison History of science and physics, Harvard University, Cambridge,

Picnic Conversation with Arthur Shapiro Evolution and ecology, University of California, Davis,

Picnic Conversation with Sara Seager Physics and planetary science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge,

Picnic Conversation with Walton Green Organismic and evolutionary biology, Harvard University, Cambridge,

Victory Garden Trike,

Lunch Box Lab,

Lunch Box Lab,

Wooden Brick Form and card set,

Erratum,

Erratum,