Santina Amato

Blurring Boundaries

Ongoing

Created while AIR at 4Heads Portal, Governors Island, New York, NY, this series places domestic furniture in direct conversation with a bio-morphic, organic shape made from domestic materials such as recycled household junk mail, garbage bags, flour, and glue. The sculptures reflect on a our world that was reduced to the confines of our domestic environment due to the pandemic, where boundaries of work and personal spaces became blurred.


Amato has been awarded a 2023 New Work Grant, by the Queens Arts Fund, NY, USA to develop new work in this series.

2022. 67" X 40" X 40". Domestic furniture, recycled paper and plastic, plaster gauze, joint compound, flour, toilet paper, glue, latex paint.

2022. 67" X 40" X 40". Domestic furniture, recycled paper and plastic, plaster gauze, joint compound, flour, toilet paper, glue, latex paint.

2022. 67" X 40" X 40". Domestic furniture, recycled paper and plastic, plaster gauze, joint compound, flour, toilet paper, glue, latex paint.

2022. 67" X 40" X 40". Domestic furniture, recycled paper and plastic, plaster gauze, joint compound, flour, toilet paper, glue, latex paint.

2022. 55" X 20" X 20". Domestic furniture, recycled paper and plastic, plaster gauze, joint compound, flour, toilet paper, glue, latex paint.

2022. 55" X 20" X 20". Domestic furniture, recycled paper and plastic, plaster gauze, joint compound, flour, toilet paper, glue, latex paint.

2022. 55" X 20" X 20". Domestic furniture, recycled paper and plastic, plaster gauze, joint compound, flour, toilet paper, glue, latex paint.

2021. 56" X 37" X 40". Domestic furniture, recycled paper and plastic, plaster gauze, joint compound, flour, toilet paper, glue, latex paint. Photo Jason Wyche

2021. 56" X 37" X 40".  Domestic furniture, recycled paper and plastic, plaster gauze, joint compound, flour, toilet paper, glue, latex paint. Photo Jason Wyche

2021. 56" X 37" X 40".  Domestic furniture, recycled paper and plastic, plaster gauze, joint compound, flour, toilet paper, glue, latex paint. Photo Jason Wyche

2021. 56" X 37" X 40" Domestic furniture, recycled paper and plastic, plaster gauze, joint compound, flour, toilet paper, glue, latex paint. Photo Jason Wyche 

2021. 46" X 45" X 34". Domestic furniture, recycled paper and plastic, plaster gauze, joint compound, flour, toilet paper, glue, latex paint. Photo Jason Wyche

2021. 46" X 45" X 34". Domestic furniture, recycled paper and plastic, plaster gauze, joint compound, flour, toilet paper, glue, latex paint. Photo Jason Wyche

2021. 46" X 45" X 34". Domestic furniture, recycled paper and plastic, plaster gauze, joint compound, flour, toilet paper, glue, latex paint. Photo Jason Wyche

2021. 46" X 45" X 34". Domestic furniture, recycled paper and plastic, plaster gauze, joint compound, flour, toilet paper, glue, latex paint. Photo Jason Wyche

2021. 45" X 51" X 40".  Domestic furniture, recycled paper and plastic, plaster gauze, joint compound, flour, toilet paper, glue, latex paint. Photo Jason Wyche

2021. 45" X 51" X 40". Domestic furniture, recycled paper and plastic, plaster gauze, joint compound, flour, toilet paper, glue, latex paint. Photo Jason Wyche

2021. 58" X 51" X 40". Domestic furniture, recycled paper and plastic, plaster gauze, joint compound, flour, toilet paper, glue, latex paint. Photo Jason Wyche

2021. 58" X 51" X 40". Domestic furniture, recycled paper and plastic, plaster gauze, joint compound, flour, toilet paper, glue, latex paint. Photo Jason Wyche

2021. Domestic furniture, recycled paper and plastic, plaster gauze, joint compound, flour, toilet paper, glue, latex paint. Photo Jason Wyche

2021. Domestic furniture, recycled paper and plastic, plaster gauze, joint compound, flour, toilet paper, glue, latex paint. Photo Jason Wyche

2021. Domestic furniture, recycled paper and plastic, plaster gauze, joint compound, flour, toilet paper, glue, latex paint. Photo Jason Wyche

2021. Domestic furniture, recycled paper and plastic, plaster gauze, joint compound, flour, toilet paper, glue, latex paint. Photo Jason Wyche