Amanda Love (b. 1974, Columbia, South Carolina) is a contemporary interdisciplinary artist whose sculptural mixed-media practice transforms discarded books, paper, and pulp-based archival materials into reconstructed forms and immersive installations. Known for versatile works ranging from intimate objects to expansive environments, Love explores the book as both a physical object and a cultural symbol.

As a former bookbinder, Love brings a deep understanding of paper, thread, ink, structure, and material processes to her work. Through dismantling, layering, stitching, painting, accumulation, and reconstruction, she examines how knowledge, memory, and cultural histories shift form to endure. The startling, persistent issues of censorship, book banning, and the resulting cultural destruction create a void that Love is compelled to illuminate. In certain bodies of work, redaction and obscured text serve as visual and conceptual strategies, suggesting absence, protection, and erasure. Across her broader practice, the book is granted a second material life; printed matter morphs into artistic forms with fresh voices.

Love’s work invites viewers to consider how paper and print retain meaning even when discarded, displaced, or altered. Through sculpture, installation, and participatory environments, Love asks how knowledge changes form to survive and how her act of transmutation can become a form of preservation and a call to action.

Love has participated in numerous residencies, exhibits regularly nationwide, and has received grants from the Greater Columbus Arts Council, the Ohio Arts Council, and the National Endowment for the Arts. She lives and works in Granville, Ohio.Amanda lives and works in Granville, Ohio (USA). 

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