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Amaryllis R. Flowers, Against All Origins, 2023, 44.5 in x 93.5 in

Watercolor, gouache, color pencil, embossment, airbrush, and collage on paper. Courtesy of the artist.

Meet Amaryllis R. Flowers

“No matter how much I peel, the pattern remains.”

-Amaryllis R. Flowers

Iridescent flesh. Kaleidoscopic worlds. A utopian world of ​creatures birthed through nebulas and the cracks of canyons. ​Amaryllis Flowers, a queer Puerto Rican artist, recently moved ​to a studio in upstate NY. There, she is creating new utopic ​worlds where queer femmes are unbound by the threats of ​our earthly existence. Fantasy has been a way of decolonizing ​her interior world. In her statement, the artist writes, “When ​enduring existential threat, fantasy makes survival possible.” ​Amaryllis’ iridescent works on paper feature Caribbean ​women in fleshed freedom. Women with gold bamboo hoops ​and go-go balls, swimming through supernovae. During a ​recent visit, Amaryllis let me in on how she creates her ​sculptures, which are clay works marked by intricate patterns. ​The patterns on the skin are not a surface treatment. Rather, ​they are the layers of the clay. Amaryllis creates stacks of ​patterned clay cubes and then carves out the bodies. “No ​matter how much I peel, the pattern remains,” she said.

Amaryllis has had quite the year. She won The Rockefeller ​Brothers Fund’s Pocantico Prize. She was invited to speak at ​the Lincoln Center. And importantly, she created a new and ​magical body of work in her new upstate studio. Her latest ​show ‘Let the Monster Sleep’ was shown at the Union for ​Contemporary Art in Omaha.