2MF with Amy Beecher

This episode of 2MF features a conversation with artist Amy Beecher, following a meeting and workshop at Torrance Shipman Gallery on March 16th, 2016. Beecher speaks with Maria Stabio and Sonya Derman about the Cathy comic strip series, shame, working within the structures of comedy, and existing and creating artwork in the aftermath of second-wave feminism. Music in the episode is from Harry Gould Harvey IV (HeadCleaner). Amy Beecher is an artist living and working in New York and Providence. Her work—painting, sculpture, installation, performance, ephemera and more—has been presented in art centers and galleries nationally, including recent exhibitions and programs at Storm King Art Center, New Windsor, NY; Creative Time, Printed Matter and Bruce High Quality Foundation and Muelensteen Gallery, all in New York, NY; 7 Dunham Place, Garden Party Arts and Primetime, all in Brooklyn, NY; and Philadelphia Photo Arts Center and Tiger Strikes Astroid, both in Philadelphia, PA. She has been an artist-in-residence at The Shandaken Project, Shandaken, NY and the Digital Media Center for Art at Yale University, New Haven, CT. Beecher holds a MFA in Painting and Printmaking from Yale University and a BA in Visual Art from Brown University. Beecher is visiting assistant professor of painting in the Art & Art History Department at Providence College. More at www.2manyfeelings.com.

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