Artist Statement

Amy Toscani’s monumental-scale sculptures exhibit a rugged style and optimistic buoyancy that viewers love, and that she once humorously described as “a weird mix of fantasy and 4-H.” Toscani has taken that proposition several steps further in recent years, making a shift to working on a human scale and producing new sculptures that are colorful, multi-layered, and wittily reflective of American consumer society. She works with an eclectic mix of found thrift-store objects, fabric, multi-colored plastic, asphalt, and other materials as they present themselves. Welding plastic pieces together, seamlessly combining manufactured objects with hand-made components, and the use of popular imagery are all techniques that she employs to create “pitch-perfect songs of contemporary Americana”