artist statement that wont fit in the 'about me' portion of my profile. lame.

My name is Amy Puzerewski, I currently live in Columbia, SC. I'm attending art school at USC. My work is an attempt to see life simply and humorously and from a very female perspective. I enjoy drawing moments from life that are cute or interesting, or ironic. My work can also be viewed from a design perspective. I focus heavily on composition, how certain colors, lines and text work together in a contained space. I'm influenced by graphic design. I want to grab the viewers attention, if only briefly, just like the designer- and I do this by using bright colors, bold lines, and short bits of text. I'm also influenced by graffiti, because I like the idea  of the in-formalized canvas, and art for everybody. Graphic design as well as graffiti are made for everybody. However my work is made in the studio, but I use everyday materials such as cardboard, pieces of wood, ad foam, most of which I find in the trash. In using such cheap materials I feel I can charge significantly less than other artists for my work. I want to make my art accessible to everyone, not just in understandable content, but in price. I also have the occasional piece of work in which I focus on composition alone, such as my cityscapes, or bubble paintings. I find this work to be very relaxing and I hope for the viewer as well. I think humor and relaxation are two of my favorite things, because they don't happen very often for me and they lead to the best feelings. Like when you see something cute, re you see something depressing, to turn it on it's head and make it funny. I paint/draw using a variety of media including graphite, oil-based paint pen, china marker, crayon, spray paint, but mostly ink and guashe. In the times I'm not painting I'm knitting and crocheting or playing with two super cute doggies. 

There's a brand new baby at Ziggy's house

Me and Fabio just got a new puppy so that Ziggy could have a friend to play with. She is a pitbull and we named her Columbia. She is really different than Ziggy cause she doesn't kiss so much as she bites, but I like how much of a fighter she is. 

Part of the series on nude women. Paint pen on cardboard. Paint is chipping really badly because the cardboard was coated with some shiny slick stuff, but I still like this one. I drew it on the box that my hello kitty toaster came in. I thought it was funny to think of the girl as a toaster. 

Ziggy begging for kisses.

Guashe on cardboard with paint pen. 

be my valentine

This is a valentine I made for someone, but I liked it so much that I gave it to myself.

the big zig

This is a picture of my doggie, Ziggy Stardust. He's the best! He doesn't even bark!

shiner girl

This is guashe on cardboard (a shiner beer pack to be precise). For my series about nude women in art. My favorite one compositionally. I like how she doesn't have a head. 

my dog thinking about all the nasty things I would never eat.

I still find is so crazy that the first thing you see when you open a sale paper is all of these disgusting pictures of dead animals. But my dogs probably think they look yummy, but they also eat their own poop sometimes. This was done on cardstock, painting with craft acrylic, and collaged using modpoge, I drew the chair with a sharpie.  

More from my series of nude women, in response to all the young guys in my class painting nude women. I forgot to mention on my other post that my teacher was male, and that the day of my critique he couldn't speak and he is someone who doesn't usually know when to stop talking (the girl that presented before me got ripped to shreds for over 2 hours! she was crying!) But anyways, I'm 90% sure he was turned on, creep. 

my wiener dog.

On cardboard with guash and paint pen. 

two girls

This is a drawing I did from looking at the cover of a porno. Many of the members of my painting class at the time were young guys painting young naked women, and I thought it would be funny to also paint naked women, so I bought some porn and drew from it. Drawing nudes is fun! as well as funny, I think. 

girl reaching up

On cardboard with guashe, paint pen, and plastic gems. 

Fabio playing guitar. On cardboard with guashe, paint pen, plastic gems.

birds

This painting is on cardboard with guache and sharpie. 

bubble painting 2.

bubble painting 1.

statue on the horseshoe.

from the window at Cafe Strudel.

they forgot about me again.

I made this drawing because for about two weeks after I got Columbia (my pit puppy) Ziggy went into this depressing funk which was even worse than when I didn't have another dog around for him to be friends with. Now he has just progressed into the grumpy old man dog who has to bark at everyone who is new, cause he probably just assumes they are going to irritate him. I still think he is really cute though, if you can't tell by the drawing. 

birds on a wire.