Amy Eckert

Amy Eckert’s series “Manufacturing Home” shows many views of mobile homes that are decorate in order to be sold. The images have very odd feeling to them. Why do we do the things we do? I think each family has a different living style and that’s what these homes display. Everyone makes different choices but ultimate we have the concern of having a safe haven to life in. The relation to my work is that the these homes are mass-produced and the items within them are also massed produced. Ultimately these furnishings will be run down and end up outside or at least they would if these weren’t model homes. That’s what interests me the most about Amy Eckert’s work, the fact that the homes are staged realities, that is images of what could be.

Biography

Amy Eckert is an artist based in Minneapolis, MN, where she was recently awarded a 2010-2011 McKnight Fellowship. Eckert received a BFA from the Massachusetts College of Art in 1993, and an MFA from the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College in 2002. In addition to commercial projects for clients like Time Magazine, Dwell, Blu Dot, and The New York Times Magazine, Eckert’s work has been included in group shows at the Powerhouse Arena in Brooklyn, the Center for Fine Art Photography, Ft. Collins, Colorado; Silveryeye Center for Photography, Pittsburgh; Voies Off Festival, Arles, France; as well as in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Her project “Manufacturing Home” will have it’s solo debut at the Minneapolis Photography Center in June 2010.

Eckert, Amy . "Manufacturing Home - Photography by Amy Eckert." Manufacturing Home - Photography by Amy Eckert. N.p., n.d. Web. 21 Mar. 2011 <http://manufacturinghome.com/default4.asp>.