For over thirty years, Philadelphia-based artist Margery Amdur has developed a distinctive material language to create immersive, tactile environments with large-scale, wall-based sculpture. Her work investigates the relationship between architecture and the body through densely layered surfaces constructed from industrial and everyday materials. Using elements such as cosmetic sponges, mesh, fasteners, and stitched textiles, she assembles site-responsive works that balance structure and instability, abstraction and physicality.
Amdur has held more than sixty solo exhibitions and completed numerous projects nationally and internationally. Her work has been featured in Sculpture Magazine, Fiber Arts, and Creative Practices for Visual Artists, among other publications. Works from her Amass series are part of the permanent collections at the U.S. Embassy in Paramaribo, Suriname, and the Philadelphia Convention Center.
She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She is currently a professor at Rutgers University–Camden in New Jersey.
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