Pycnogonum, 2023
Amber Toplisek
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Thres{hold} , 2025
Hot Sheet - Expanding the Boundaries of Photography, 2024
Amber integrates photography and sculpture to examine the themes of memory and beauty. She repurposes images sourced from eBay listings of flower cuttings - photographs taken out of practicality rather than artistic intent - and by changing their original function they become an artifact of the mundane.
By spotlighting these everyday images, Amber critiques the oversaturation of visual content in our modern day digital landscape while rediscovering and amplifying the inherent beauty within. Nostalgia permeates her work. Encasing these photographs in glass introduces a layer of fragility, underscoring both the delicate nature of memory and the transient beauty of the subjects.
Artist Bio
Amber Toplisek is an interdisciplinary artist based in Atlanta, GA. Her work explores the network of images that reside within, functioning as an imperceptible alchemy that influence and guide our lives. By embedding once-immaterial images into tangible structures, she aims to amplify the potential for images to coalesce within the viewer's physical body. Amber’s work engages with different methods of obfuscation and utilizes both kinetic and still interventions in order to investigate and extend an encounter with a photographic image.
Toplisek received her MFA in 2024 from the University of South Florida and her BFA in 2018 from Georgia State University. She has exhibited in numerous group and solo shows across the US and in the UK. Toplisek is currently a Visiting Lecturer at the Ernest G. Welch School of Art & Design at Georgia State University.