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Two-Person Exhibition Opens at Art Access Gallery, Columbus, OH;
‘Unbound: Amanda Love and Anne Sherwood Pundyk’ is on View March 7 - May 30, 2025
The artists use unconventional materials to defy convention.
Art Access Gallery celebrates 25th anniversary.
Public gallery events scheduled April 28 and May 1st
Columbus, OH – Art Access Gallery presents a two-person exhibition “Unbound: Amanda Love and Anne Sherwood Pundyk,” featuring key, large scale works by artists Anne Sherwood Pundyk and Amanda Love. The exhibition coincides with the 25th anniversary of Art Access Gallery at its current location. The exhibition is on view Friday, March 7 through Friday, May 30, 2025.
The exhibition showcases a variety of works, many on public view for the first time. Artists Amanda Love and Anne Sherwood Pundyk share a desire to look beyond convention to expose human truths. Love addresses book suppression by dismantling books—pages, spines, and covers—to create sculptures and reliefs, highlighting her materials’ tactile surfaces. She challenges the belief that humanity can repress its history and future. Pundyk stains, crops, and then reconfigures raw canvas sections, stitching them together to make paintings that hang unstretched. Through her work, Pundyk enacts a freeing response to generational trauma. Pundyk says she likes to “track mud on the rug,” revealing hidden narratives in the layers of paint on her irregular surfaces. By making unexpected use of their materials, the artists’ works create the feeling of a newly acquired, sometimes uncomfortable reality.
Public Events:
To further the experience for visitors Art Access Gallery expands the show's storytelling beyond the visual works to include two interactive programs with the artists and special guests during the run of the exhibition:
Spring Design Collaboration: Celebrate Spring and ‘American Roots.’ A conversation with local landscape designers Nick and Allison McCullough about their book collaboration with national gardeners.
Monday, April 28th, 5:00 to 8:00 p.m. at Art Access Gallery
Panel Discussion: Unbound with artists and writers: Allison Chapman, Amanda Love, Amy Turn Sharp, Anne Sherwood Pundyk, and Maggie Smith. Reserve your seat here.
Thursday May 1st, 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 pm at Art Access Gallery
Visitor Information
“Unbound: Amanda Love and Anne Sherwood Pundyk,” Art Access Gallery hours are:
Wednesday-Friday, 11:00 am to 5:00 pm and Saturday, 11:00 am to 4:00 pm.
Appointments outside these hours and private tours with the artists can be arranged by emailing Barb@ArtAccessGallery.com. All works are for sale.
About Anne Sherwood Pundyk
Anne Sherwood Pundyk is an artist and writer who who brings together the traditions of abstract art, textiles and storytelling. Her art comes from two intertwining midwestern legacies: her grandmother, a professional artist from Newark, OH taught her how to use materials on hand; and from other branches of the same family tree her experience of generational trauma. The realms of secrecy associated with trauma have engendered a mode of watchfulness that shapes the artist’s work.
Her large scale unstretched paintings are constructed from stained, cropped and sewn sections of drop cloth canvas creating an irregular surface and compelling physical presence. Activated by color, each painting ultimately has its own improvised story. Her paintings and works ln paper, diary still life photos and artist’s books are all chronicle what is concealed and revealed. Her exhibitions, talks, and performances invite audience participation in this process. Pundyk is based in Mattituck and Manhattan, NY.
About Amanda Love
Amanda Love is an interdisciplinary artist known for versatile paper-based art that ranges from intimate pieces to expansive installations. The ongoing censorship of ideas and books profoundly shapes her work. She engages with various media and techniques to express her thematic focus, recycling discarded books and creating objects that resonate with both personal conviction and collective loss.
A former bookbinder, Love delves deeply into the properties of paper, thread, and ink, exploring the coming together and falling apart of these products of human creativity: books as missing objects, words as censored objects—these concepts drive her inspiration. Love continuously seeks to foster dialogue and reflection on the critical issues of literature suppression and the marginalization of voices, encouraging viewers to reflect on the broader implications and essential nature of intellectual freedom. Her work can be seen in galleries in Chicago and Columbus. Amanda lives and works in Granville, OH.
About Art Access Gallery
Art Access began as an art consulting business in 1992. In 2000 after out growing several gallery spaces, the building at 540 S. Drexel Avenue, Bexley, was purchased, remodeled and opened as a retail gallery. The building originally functioned as Bexley’s post office. All the original wood floors, tin ceilings and brick wall remain giving the gallery a slightly industrial air. Today the gallery specializes in a wide variety of original art and sculpture. There are generally 8 to 10 shows annually, featuring artists both local and from across the United States.Art Access provides full service client consultation, selection of appropriate art pieces and loaning of work on approval. For more information, email Barb@ArtAccessGallery.com, call 614-338-8325, or visit artaccessgallery.com.
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