Painting in a photograph with light feels exciting. Using a long exposure time at night I walk through the image carrying a digital light source which places my chosen image into the photograph. The images which I paint in the work are of myself either from my career as a performance artist or from my childhood. As the shoot evolves I adjust my placement of the light painting in the image, the speed or pattern which I move through the image while painting, or perhaps the settings on my digital light tool to push to art in the direction I’ve envisioned.
Amy Shapiro produced performance and installation art for thirty years, however for the past five years photography has been her primary creative medium. She has shown her photographs at Sage Gallery, the Davis Orton Gallery, the Vermont Center for Photography and the Midwest Center for Photography. She has received multiple grants from the Burning Man organization, she has a BFA in painting from the School of Visual Arts, and is co-owner of Luxlab.
