Artist Amy Lincoln Debuts First Large-Scale Mural at CityPlace

Amy Lincoln (American b. 1981), based in New York City, makes imaginative, intensely hued paintings of the natural world. Drawing on three prevailing genres of oil painting— landscape, still life, and portraiture—and working with a distinct color palette, Amy Lincoln employs a visual vocabulary that unsettles any clear-cut category. Her uncanny use of bold and unnatural colors and highly manicured style instills a discomfiting quality in otherwise idyllic settings.  Sun Through Leaves (Spectrum), 2023-2024, is her first large scale work of this type.

“In this composition I wanted to combine the feeling of lush plant foliage as well as a vibrant array of colors, all while keeping the composition relatively simple and cohesive. I also wanted a distinct sense of foreground, middle ground and background to create dimension.

From the yellow sun at the middle of the composition, we move outward through the rainbow to orange and pink sky, and then to the inner or furthest ring of leaves, a pale lavender, then to blue and teal, and finally to an outer ring of dark green leaves. I wanted to show all colors of the rainbow while also moving from light to dark and having the colors make some sense on their respective forms, i.e. yellow sun, green leaves.  The leaves are simple, repeated shapes which create a rhythm or pattern to the composition while also creating atmospheric perspective. They are darker and larger in the foreground and fade to paler tones in the distance.”

Sun Through Leaves can now be seen by The Laurel at CityPlace.