Caitlyn D'Amico
Class of 2017
Printmaking and Fashion Design
Caitlyn D’Amico is an artist and educator living outside of Boston, Mass. She attended Pratt MWP in 2017 and earned her bachelor’s of fine arts degree from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, N.Y., in 2019. She graduated with a concentration in painting and a minor in fashion design. In the summer of 2019, she continued her studies to expand her practice as a painter. She created sculptural objects often by stitching wire to canvas. In May 2021, she received her master’s of fine arts degree from Maine College of Art in Portland, Maine.
D’Amico has worked as an elementary art teacher in New York, an arts-integrated early childhood teacher in San Francisco, and as an educator at the Children’s Creativity Museum in San Francisco. She studied early childhood education and, in 2022, became an Early Education and Care (EEC) certified teacher. She now works at a child-centered Montessori preschool as the art teacher and assistant teacher. As an artist, D’Amico’s current work displays a sense of wonder and freedom attributed to the children with whom she works. She is interested in merging the fields of art, education, and child development. D’Amico uses painting and sculpture to bring imagination to life. Her work is characterized by bursts of bright color, twisting tubes and wires, and life-sized structures that inhabit space.
She first exhibited her work at Munson in Utica, N.Y., and has continued to exhibit work throughout New England.
Artist Statement
I bridge notions of painting and sculpture in an abstract world of color. The forms I create express a desire to be freed from a rectilinear frame. I combine painting and sculpture into a unified creature to ground my imagination in reality and construct visions of escape. There are secrets hidden deep within our society and there are always new truths to uncover. Life is not always what it seems. Deep within the colorful, enticing and effervescent collection of shapes lies an uneasy feeling; a fear of the unknown. There are shapes abstracted from the body and by anthropomorphizing my paintings, it allows me to question how we exist in the world. My installations encourage viewers to move through the installation to experience it from multiple locations of perspective. I investigate themes of transformation and transcendence. The undulating forms exist in a stage of suspension. The installation implies a sense of movement but objects are caught in a state of stillness. I want to encourage viewers to question what they see and how they interact with the objects around them. The environments I create become ambiguous and transcend the ordinary to evoke a more immersive, interactive, and playful experience for a viewer.
