Amber Rane Sibley is a New York based artist and ceramic sculptor. Sibley’s work explores the unexamined imprisonments that result from narrative identity. The figures that populate her work are surrogates for the collective. They are vessels of self-delusion and self-mythology, crippled creatures debilitated by their own will. They are superior limb-less and nonprehensile with often voluntarily obstructed vision. And yet they make no effort to change their lot. As Sibley excavates the darkened caves of the professed chosen, spiritually special, or the habitually inert she discovers the frightened inner child seeking bedtimes stories to quell the tortures of waking-life. She offers them portraits to embody the fear, the unknowns, and the examination of their actualities. And so the figures become deceptively hopeful, candied representations of the not-knowing, of the un-chosen, and of the ignorant. Do we greet them then as helpless companions in need of aid or the dark mirrors we’ve avoided?
Amber Rane came of age in the rural mountains of southern Vermont and on the sandy beaches of the Nantucket Sound; an original dichotomy that lives on in her and in her work. She began with a career in theater and television, building props and puppets for shows like Blue Man Group and NBC’s Sunny Side Up Show for over 10 years. She honed her approach to abstract narrative through Burlesque performance, crafting a series of award-winning comedically absurd routines. A highly skilled glaze technician and expert sculptor, Amber Rane holds a BFA from Hunter College and is an MFA candidate at Tulane University, specializing in ceramic sculpture. Her work has been featured in the New York Times and exhibited at prestigious galleries such as Fierman and First Street Gallery in New York
Selected
Exhibitions
2022
Wide Open 12
Group Exhibition
BWAC Gallery
Brooklyn, NY
Face to Face
Group Exhibition
Arc Gallery
San Francisco, CA
NADA NY
With Fierman Gallery
New York, NY
All That Is and More Below
Solo Exhibition
Fierman Gallery
New York, NY
2021
Publications
2023
Art of Access
Group Exhibition
New Collectors Gallery &
Visionary Projects
545 Broadway, NYC
2024
Southern Synergies
Group Exhibition
Alabama Clay Conference
Claydees
Group Exhibition
Newcomb Institute
You Don't Say
Solo Exhibition
Carroll Gallery
New Orleans, LA
2022
2024
Solo Exhibitions
Group Exhibitions
Feelers
Group Exhibition
Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Gallery
New York, NY 10065
2021 National Juried Exhibition
Group Exhibition
First Street Gallery
New York, NY
Feelers
Group Exhibition
Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Gallery
New York, NY
NADA Miami
With Fierman Gallery
Miami, FL
Whatever is left,
take it with you.
Solo Exhibition
Fierman Gallery
New York, NY