"I started making beaded jewelry, something I could hold and feel. The beading techniques gradually merged with canvases, which over time became more three-dimensional. They were less about adornment and more about personal stories I felt I needed to tell."
"It's not about size, it's about what is most important to you. It's how we see and think and remember. To my mind's eye, they are of equal importance. The health of the world we see is deeply dependent on the health of the tiniest elements."
"Beads, thread, yarn, and paper transform into otherworldly, miniature biomes. The artist focuses on mushrooms, roots, leaves, blossoms, and tiny critters as a meditation on our planet's smallest denizens. She also incorporates motifs evocative of elements we typically can't comprehend with the naked eye, such as spores, pollen, viruses, molecules, and cells."
Amy Gross transitioned from two decades of commercial textile design to creating tactile beaded jewelry and eventually three-dimensional sculptural artworks. Her practice evolved from personal adornment to storytelling through art, focusing on natural world subjects. Gross creates imaginative compositions of mushrooms, roots, leaves, and microscopic elements like spores, pollen, and cells using beads, thread, yarn, and paper. Her work emphasizes that importance is not determined by size but by personal perception and memory. She views microscopic and visible elements as equally significant, believing planetary health depends on the health of the tiniest organisms. Her sculptures represent miniature biomes and serve as meditations on nature's smallest inhabitants.
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