Jewel, (Flora and Fauna-Florescent Orange)
Embroidery on Fabric
Jewel , Heart Geometric-Sectioned)
Embroidery on Fabric
Jewel, (Brain-Mind-Thought)
Embroidery on Fabric
The Odyssey
Model Study, Detail #2
Flower Arrangement, (Scrub Brushes in Basket on White with Green Dot)
Scrub Brushes in Basket on White with Green Dot
The Odyssey
Studies for installation #4
Cheselyn Amato’s first solo show at AXIS Gallery, Uncontrollable Beauty | An Odyssey | What We Need is Always With Us is an interdisciplinary circumstance designed as a context for the experience of enchantment, wonderment, awe, and delight in the face of ever-present uncertainty. This is a walk in a landscape of visual poetical episodes celebrating the power of positive thinking and feeling, and an invitation to active commitment to discerning and reaching for each our own fullest human potential. Uncontrollable Beauty | An Odyssey is a heart song, a representation of the odyssey of living every day. Cheselyn’s installation proposes that everything we need is always with us, and a part of our lives is always dedicated as a journey to recognize, know, receive, accept, and pursue our possibilities and opportunities, and how things go, all at once.
Cheselyn Amato is a New Jersey girl with NYC at her core. She spent 20 years in Chicago before moving to Northern California where she currently lives in Davis. She earned her BA in studio art and comparative religious studies at Brown University and an MFA in drawing, painting and new genres at Tyler School of Art of Temple University. Most recently, her work was included in the Jerusalem Biennale 2015. Cheselyn is an interdisciplinary visual poet and transformation experience instigator/designer for sublimity, delight and awe.