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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

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