Overview
Amy Gross' hand-embroidered and beaded sculptures are magical microcosms, merging the natural world with her own inner life. Attracted and frightened by things on the edge of spoiling or straining to support an excess, the Florida artist creates vignettes that cluster, tangle, cling and multiply. Paradoxically, these vivid accounts of the natural world use nothing from nature. 
 
"I do not collaborate with the nature that fascinates me, the myriad of visible and invisible interactions that lie at the heart of every insect, bacteria, tree, and spore. I collaborate with manufacturing. I use no found objects, nothing was ever alive." - Amy Gross
Works
  • Amy Gross, Herbalists Vivarium: Taraxa Norma
    Herbalists Vivarium: Taraxa Norma
  • Amy Gross, Acetabularia, enclosed
    Acetabularia, enclosed
  • Amy Gross, Bee Drift 1
    Bee Drift 1
  • Amy Gross, Bee Drift 2
    Bee Drift 2
  • Amy Gross, Crescere Latus
    Crescere Latus
  • Amy Gross, Eight Ecosystems - Silver
    Eight Ecosystems - Silver
  • Amy Gross, Emerald Towhee's Biotope
    Emerald Towhee's Biotope
  • Amy Gross, Filium Ligo
    Filium Ligo
  • Amy Gross, Flora Galaxia
    Flora Galaxia
  • Amy Gross, Flora Heredita
    Flora Heredita
  • Amy Gross, Flora Ruba
    Flora Ruba
  • Amy Gross, Insula Islets stereoscope
    Insula Islets stereoscope
  • Amy Gross, Ipsa Arguendo
    Ipsa Arguendo
  • Amy Gross, Iridis Nimis stereoscope
    Iridis Nimis stereoscope
  • Amy Gross, Kin stereoscope
    Kin stereoscope
  • Amy Gross, Parulida Tangled in the Beauty Leaf Tree
    Parulida Tangled in the Beauty Leaf Tree
  • Amy Gross, Passerina Femella
    Passerina Femella
  • Amy Gross, Petrichor
    Petrichor
  • Amy Gross, Rosea Rosidae stereoscope
    Rosea Rosidae stereoscope
  • Amy Gross, Rubina Filia
    Rubina Filia
  • Amy Gross, Sola Simul
    Sola Simul
  • Amy Gross, Taraxa Contineo
    Taraxa Contineo
  • Amy Gross, Terraqua Caeli stereoscope
    Terraqua Caeli stereoscope
  • Amy Gross, Viridi Noctu
    Viridi Noctu
Exhibitions
Blog
Series