about
Amy Amalia creates reflective paintings that explore transformation, perception, and the unstable boundary between control and surrender. Working primarily on thin mirrored Mylar, she builds layered gradients, spirals, and vortex forms that appear to both emerge from and dissolve into the surface.
The reflective material collapses the distance between artwork and viewer. As the image shifts with movement and light, the viewer becomes part of the composition itself. The work functions as both object and mirror, inviting a confrontation with perception, identity, and change.
Amalia draws inspiration from alchemical symbolism, where processes of dissolution, pressure, and transformation produce new forms. The spiral, which is a recurring motif in her work, represents both collapse and expansion, a visual language for cycles of destruction and creation.
Rather than concealing irregularities in the surface, the work often preserves dents, distortions, and subtle tensions in the Mylar. These disruptions interact with the controlled geometry of the painted forms, creating a dialogue between precision and instability. The result is an image that feels simultaneously deliberate and alive.
Through reflective surfaces and optical movement, Amalia creates environments where the viewer experiences themselves shifting within the work. The paintings become sites of transformation, spaces where perception bends, identity flickers, and the act of looking becomes part of the artwork itself.