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Amanda Means Art

American, b. 1945
Written by The Merchant House Gallery, Amsterdam: Amanda Means (1945, US) is known for her black-and-white gelatin silver prints of palpable materiality. Means is a graduate of Cornell University and SUNY Buffalo, and is a 2017 Guggenheim Fellow, awarded for her contribution to contemporary photography. She has exhibited widely and her work is included in numerous collections, including that of the Whitney Museum of American Art; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Cleveland Museum of Art; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston; and the MIT List Visual Arts Center. She is a master black-and-white printer, having printed professionally for Robert Mapplethorpe, Roni Horn, Francesca Woodman and Petah Coyne, among others. She has written for Bomb Magazine and is the Trustee of the John Coplans Trust. After living in NYC for 35 years, she moved to Beacon (NY) in 2007.
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Maidenhair Fern

Maidenhair Fern

By Amanda Means

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Gelatin silver print (Edition of 20) Signed, titled, dated, and numbered, verso This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.

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1990s Contemporary Amanda Means Art

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Silver Gelatin

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Find a wide variety of authentic Amanda Means art available for sale on 1stDibs. You can also browse by medium to find art by Amanda Means in silver gelatin print and more. Much of the original work by this artist or collective was created during the 1990s and is mostly associated with the contemporary style. Not every interior allows for large Amanda Means art, so small editions measuring 24 inches across are available. Customers who are interested in this artist might also find the work of Jan Van Leeuwen, Pipo Nguyen-Duy, and James Whitlow Delano. Amanda Means art prices can differ depending upon medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $1,830 and tops out at $1,830, while the average work can sell for $1,830.

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