Amanda Love (b. 1974 Columbia, South Carolina) is an interdisciplinary artist known for versatile paper-based art that ranges from intimate pieces to expansive installations. The ongoing censorship of ideas and books profoundly shapes her work. She engages with various media and techniques to express her thematic focus, recycling discarded books and creating objects that resonate with both personal conviction and collective loss.

A former bookbinder, Love delves deeply into the properties of paper, thread, and ink, exploring the coming together and falling apart of these products of human creativity: books as missing objects, words as censored objects—these concepts drive her inspiration.

Love continuously seeks to foster dialogue and reflection on the critical issues of literature suppression and the marginalization of voices, encouraging viewers to reflect on the broader implications and essential nature of intellectual freedom.

She has participated in numerous residencies and exhibitions nationwide, including a large-scale installation, TIGRIS, at the Springfield Museum of Art in Ohio. This exhibition was the catalyst for an NEA Big Read grant. Her work can be seen in galleries in Chicago and Columbus. Amanda lives and works in Granville, Ohio (USA). 

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