Amy Komar is an artist best known for her colorful acrylic work: iridescent paintings on clayboard panels and meditative beadwork on found objects.
Amy draws heavily from her experiences as a mother and Alaskan transplant. She and her husband Matt curate local objects—from beach stones to vintage tools—that inspire their creative process. These objects become three-dimensional canvases for her mark-making, a layer of meaning that becomes part of the artist’s story by being seen, touched and transformed.
Amy’s work explores the relationship between personal memory and collective memory, fine art and folk art, physical life and spiritual life. Each piece invites the viewer into an intimate experience with an object-turned-artifact.
Amy’s Bio
Born and raised in Houston, Texas, Amy Komar earned a BA in Studio Art from the University of Texas Austin in 2001.
Amy’s current work demonstrates an ongoing visual dialog with her early work, atmospheric paintings reminiscent of landscapes. Her lifelong interest in the interplay of geometric patterns across surfaces stems from a belief in the potential for profound connection in everyday experiences.
Matt’s Bio
Amy’s husband Matt gathers natural objects such as stone and wood from Alaska’s boreal forests, rivers and vast coastal areas. Finding most of the objects used in Amy’s artwork at estate and garage sales around Alaska, the couple seeks out a limited number of “rust relics” from annual winter trips down south.
Regardless of where each object is found, this ritual of “family style junkin’” is a continual adventure of traveling to new places, connecting with people and objects and listening to stories. Their passion is making art intent that preserves the story of the objects while telling their own.
Gifted with an eye for style and a passion for history, Matt seeks out vintage and antique relics to pair with unusual salvaged and weathered woods, crafting custom frames for Amy’s finished painted pieces.