Amelia O'Dowd
Amelia
O'Dowd weaves her effervescent wit and her extreme tactile awareness
into her brazen, textually based creations. Having first studied
sculpture, painting, ceramics, fiber arts, and performance art at Mass.
College of Art and at Walnut Hill School, she brings an unorthodox
perspective to the dance theater world. As a founding member of
Monkeyhouse, she has performed in Philadelphia, Winnipeg, Minneapolis,
NYC, San Francisco, and Boston. In 1999 her guerilla performance piece,
Colony: Blue was performed on the sidewalks of the Fenway section of
Boston and her Duet: Blue was included in Sidewalk Sam's Art Street
Festival. Her sculptural dolls were featured in the A.I.R. Gallery's
Generations 2: a Survey of Women Artists at the Millennium in New York.
She has also worked with Jonas dos Santos, a Brazilian conceptual
performance artist while teaching art classes at Myhelan in New Jersey.
