///AMBER EAGLE : MIXED MEDIA
Location: Guanajuato, Mexico
Originally from Charlotte, Amber Eagle currently lives and works in Guanajuato, Mexico. Eagle creates intricate artworks using unique materials, including painstakingly constructed sculptures made of sugar. She began to work with sugar after a six month trip through Mexico in 1997. During this journey, inspired by Mayan cave culture, she started making autobiographical, miniature "caves" from sugar. Eagle often documents these sculptures with photographs, which she also exhibits. The artist, who sees the cave as a metaphor for the unexplored psychological aspects of the self, also considers her medium to be symbolic. To her, the sugar's impermanence reflects Mexican culture's acceptance of death as the inevitable shadow of life, adding that this lies in direct contrast with "American culture's preoccupation with youth and eternal life." Amber Eagle received her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and her MFA from California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland.
Artist-in-Residence Winter 2006
January 5 - March 27, 2006
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