A contemporary artist specializing in collages and monotypes, Ernst combines experimental techniques with a surrealist visual language. As the daughter of the abstract painter Jimmy Ernst and the great-granddaughter of the surrealist Max Ernst, she develops her own artistic research, reinterpreting and expanding the family tradition through diverse materials and a free, intuitive visual language. Her works have been shown in national and international exhibitions.
1953: Amy Ernst is born in Rowayton, a coastal village in the city of Norwalk, Connecticut.
1966-1973: During the summer months, she works in Guild Hall at the John Drew Theater in East Hampton, New York, where she is particularly interested in lighting and scenic design.
1974-1978: Studies set design at Emerson College, Boston; works for Boston Summer Opera Theater, meets her future husband, opera singer Eric Donald Johnson.
1984: Receives M.A. degree in Arts Administration and Business at Indiana University Bloomington. Indiana.
1988: First group exhibition at Guild Hall Museum, Southampton, others followed in New York galleries.
1991-1994: Participation in the Robert Blackburn Printmaking workshop in New York. There and in further master workshops she refines her artistic techniques, a sophisticated combination of different printmaking and photographic methods.
1992: First solo exhibition titled “Metamorphosis” at Clayton & Liberatore Gallery, NY.
1996: Master Workshop with John Baldessari, Santa Fe Art Institute, New Mexico.
1999: Master Workshops: Solar Plate Etchings, Dan Weldon, New York.
2011: Master Workshops: Monotype, Lisa Mackie, New York.
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