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Amanda Besl
Shelf Life, 2024
Oil on canvas
31 x 23 inches
Signed on reverse
In Shelf Life, Amanda Besl constructs a visually arresting still life that fuses botanical precision with psychological weight. Set against a softly saturated backdrop, the painting features meticulously rendered natural forms—buds, blossoms, and tendrils—poised within a delicate balance of beauty and decay. With an eye for composition and symbolism, Besl evokes themes of preservation, femininity, and the fragility of time.
The title itself offers a quiet provocation: What does it mean to be kept, observed, or put on display? Drawing from art historical references to vanitas and florilegia, Besl updates the tradition with a contemporary sensibility that is equal parts painterly and conceptual.
Rendered in oil with the artist’s hallmark precision, this work blends botanical study with surreal intimacy. A compelling addition for collectors interested in figurative surrealism, feminist aesthetics, and the intersections of science, nature, and emotional resonance.
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- Creator:Amanda Besl (1976, American)
- Creation Year:2025
- Dimensions:Height: 31 in (78.74 cm)Width: 23 in (58.42 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Buffalo, NY
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU139216419902
Amanda Besl
Amanda Besl has shown widely in both Western New York and New York City, and in Belgium, France, the Netherlands, and Russia. Besl holds an MFA in Painting from the Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI and a BFA from SUNY Oswego. Her paintings are part of several notable private and public collections including the Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo; Nichido Contemporary, Tokyo, Japan; the Burger Collection, Hong Kong and the Tullman Collection, Chicago. Besl works in the Arts Department at Nichols School in Buffalo as an Upper School Visual Arts teacher. She uses natural history as a platform to explore social issues and finds inspiration in the plants she obsessively tends, which also provide props for her current cyanotype inspired work. Besl is represented by Resource Art and her recent solo exhibition “Blue Mythologies” at The Raft of Sanity includes a foray into filmmaking.
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