Artist Spotlight: Aimee Mower Lally, Art In Motion

True to the Maplewood Division of Arts & Culture mission of ensuring that art and culture experiences are inclusive and accessible to all, this week’s featured artist is Aimee Mower Lally with the Maplewood Arts Council Art In Motion Project. Residents can enjoy public artwork safely while outdoors and socially distant.

Art In Motion: Untitled, Aimee Mower Lally,
Acrylic paint on board.
Location: Maplewood Train Station Tunnel

“This piece came from a series of paintings titled ‘In Between Spaces,’ which documents the journey between New York City and the suburbs of New Jersey. It contemplates our comings and goings and all that lies between—the rapidly changing landscape and the life transitions that lead us to where we are.” — Aimee Mower Lally

Aimee Mower Lally has been making and teaching art for 30 years, she received an MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.  She has shown in galleries in NYC and Chicago. A Williamsburg Brooklyn expat, she now lives in Maplewood NJ with her husband and two teenage daughters.  

When reflecting upon her current work Aimee writes: 

These paintings are wanderings.  They revel in uncertainty and curiosity.   

It’s a mashup, then a mapping….of flux.   

Accidental/Intentional 

Existence

Aimee shares her experience on working with the Maplewood Arts Council and Art In Motion: “I feel so fortunate to live in a community that values art.  One that puts the effort and support into celebrating, sharing and engaging with it.  Many thanks!”

Other works by Aimee Mower Lally:

Southern Summer Soiree [Oil painting on canvas]

Silver Lining [Oil painting on canvas]

Matchbox Memories [Oil painting on canvas]

Aimee Mower Lally. Photo Credit: Sarah Mittelberg.

Amy Mower Lally notes: “These painting stem from a process of  wondering and wandering, allowing uncertainty and curiosity to lead the way. Initially a mash up, and evolving into a mapping of interconnections and intersections, they document the accidental and chance, intermixing with intensional choices. Shapes and colors are formed and destroyed as they slice through, overlap and mix. Lines reach across, touch, halt, fade and drip. This interweaving allows a bit of everything to show at once- a search for meaning, for illumination, beyond conventions- a reveling in the in-between state we know as existence.”

aimee.lally@yahoo.com

Art In Motion, presented by the Maplewood Arts Council (MAC), is a collection of eight paintings that hang on the tunnel walls of the Maplewood Train Station underpass. MAC received 100 applications solicited from artists living along the Morris and Essex train line. 100% of donations for Art In Motion went to paying the artists for their work, and for the installation and maintenance of the paintings. Major sponsors for Art In Motion: The Able Baker, [words] Bookstore, Pollock Properties Group, and Michael Choy & Shannon Moffet. Big thanks to NJ Transit, and Maplewood’s Department of Public Works.