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Amy Zerner "Praying for the World," 2019. 26” x 33,” framed mixed-media collage tapestry. COURTESY MM FINE ART
Amy Zerner "My Body, My Choice," 2023. Mixed-media collage tapestry 57” x 47." COURTESY MM FINE ART
Amy Zerner "Mid-Life Isis,” 1998. Mixed-media fabric collage tapestry 108” x 144.” COURTESY MM FINE ART
Amy Zerner "Garden of Delights," mixed-media collage tapestry 43" x 43,” 2023. COURTESY MM FINE ART
“Reclaimed: The Oracles and Archetypes of Amy Zerner” is an exhibition running April 15 through April 30 at MM Fine Art in Southampton. This exhibition celebrates interdisciplinary artist Amy Zerner’s reuse, repurposing, and resurrection of a unique collection of materials into strikingly imaginative collages in her pioneering, NEA award-winning magic surrealism style, as well as her reclamation of the divine feminine in her imagery, which she has been exploring since the 1970s.
The exhibition opens with a book signing and art talk at the gallery by Zerner and her husband, author Monte Farber, on April 15 from 6 to 8 p.m. An artist’s reception will be held the following week, on Saturday, April 22, from 6 to 8 p.m.
“The remnants and treasures that I have collected over the years are sorted and stored in my ‘temple’ studio in Springs, where I have lived full-time since 1967, until I transform them and give them new life, intuitively assembling and combining them with care and intention,” said Zerner in a statement. “That is alchemy, the magic of changing something from base to precious. The process of telling each purposeful story generates forgotten memories, powerful feelings, the very essence of the goose bump experiences that make life a sacred play. That is and has long been my goal and my process, to make something valuable from something ordinary, unwanted, given away. My work reveals that we all have the potential to make miracles and magic. Being an oracle while creating, since 1990, my series of best-selling oracles and tarot decks created over many years, provides me access to numinous, untold histories of ancient times and glimpses into the hopeful, exciting, and healing future my work honors.”
Zerner will show large mixed-media tapestries as well as a curated selection of original artwork from her popular oracle books and card sets, created with her husband Monte Farber, which millions around the world consult daily for inspiration, guidance and coaching. Her lavishly illustrated cards have for decades been instruments used for personal growth, used to access what Carl Jung called the collective unconscious, those subconscious rivers of archetypal experiences that are artfully revealed and reclaimed in the enchanted world and work of Amy Zerner.
MM Fine Art is at 4 North Main Street in Southampton. For details, visit mmfineart.com or call 631-259-2274.
Staff Writer on Apr 10, 2023