A visual metaphor

Amy Bryan is a printmaking and mixed media artist from the city of New Orleans, Louisiana.

She recently moved back to New Orleans after living in Alabama from 2002-2006. Bryan’s content is often personal, is associated with her African American, female, individual, and group identity. Her work contains photographic, graphic and painterly images. She uses translucency and overlapping as a visual metaphor for a spiritual presence that is not bound by past, present and future. Living in New Orleans, Louisiana and riding in the car through the Treme community as a child had an influence on Bryan’s outlook. Treme conveyed a sense of mystery and endless fascination to her.

She later gained the knowledge that Treme is one of the oldest neighborhoods in New Orleans and it existed before New Orleans became part of the United States in the 1803 Louisiana Purchase. Free people of color and Haitian creoles lived there as citizens since the late 1700s.

This history and the unique Caribbean-like architecture have made Treme continuously inspiring to her. She has shown her work in exhibits in New Orleans, LA, Montgomery, AL, Birmingham AL, Atlanta, GA and the Washington DC area.

Bryan received a MFA in Printmaking from Howard University and a BA from Xavier University of Louisiana in Studio Art. She is an Assistant Professor of Visual Arts at Dillard University.