Amy Scofield

Amy Scofield was raised in the Colorado mountains by a family who valued science, nature and imagination fundamentals she relies on as an artist. Although she studied and practiced art in college, she earned an English degree which helps her hone and clarify ideas and thoughts so her art making can be imprecise and unrestricted.

In recent years she’s been invited to create large-scale outdoor installations in Texas, Colorado and France, each using recycled or repurposed elements that graphically express our tenuous relationship to our environment. Salvaged bike tubes, Mylar strips, decommissioned city water pipe, and fallen trees are some of the components she incorporates into striking, incongruous forms. In smaller works, she employs found and scrounged materials such as stones, mud, plastic bottles, even her own shoes, as well as digital video and photography to examine social issues.

Although she’s been in Texas since 1987, she thinks of herself as a mountain girl whose connection to nature keeps her sane.