Amos Satterlee is a New York based artist. His work explores his fascination with grids as tools to establish order and, at the same time, to peel back layers. Amos's current work investigates realms of simple systems; he takes an inductive approach: collecting data, establishing a hypothesis, and then presenting findings as aesthetic objects. Previous work, here shown through animated GIFs, are more intuitive meditations on the structures of grid and time. While firmly within the canon of geometric abstraction, Satterlee's inspriations come from the intracies of the mandala process and the time-dimension fluidity of classical Japanese brush work.
He takes something of the same approach to his woodworking process and design. Using primarily hand tools, he takes inspiration from found wood honoring the cycles of growth, use, discard, use, and growth. Most of the materials he uses are reclaimed and recycled and he designs to imbue them with elegance in simplicity.
Satterlee's studio is in Long Island City, New York. He has shown mostly recently at AIRPLANE and Cententto in Bushwick, NY. Satterlee did undergraduate studies at Carnegie-Mellon University and University of California.
- Location: New York, NY