amandine urruty

Amandine Urruty was born in 1982, she lives and works on her bed, with a suitcase full of pencils always nearby. After a few years of university studies and a brief career as an underground singer, Amandine laid the foundations of a subtly deviant work, combining grotesque costumes and baroque decorum, miraculously reconciling lovers of Victorian England with kids of the 80's.

Main feature in compositions saturated with charcoal and graphite, a gallery of characters too cute to be completely honest watches over a resolutely borderline Neverland. These illegitimate sons of a blended family with Lewis Carrol, Stephen King, The Garbage Pail Kids and the two Jérômes - Bosch & Zonder - as father figures, are the actors of a small masked theater, where everything seems on the verge of falling apart.

Exhibited around the world alongside figures of pop-surrealism, Amandine Urruty's work has been the subject of several books, including Robinet d'Amour (Les Requins Marteaux, 2011) Dommage Fromage (2014), The Party (2018) at United Dead Artists and Amandine Urruty, Je veux dire le fantôme, Éditions de l'Éclisse in 2021.

Loyal support since its beginnings, the Arts Factory gallery was hosting Amandine Urruty's new solo show in January 2023, to coincide with the simultaneous release, in France and in the United States, of Made in the Dark, a major monograph published by Cernunnos.

photo credit: nouxe productions
amandine urruty