Amy Cannady experienced the joy and simplicity of growing up in a small Indiana town. When she was fifteen, her family moved to Dallas, Texas. She holds a BFA from Southern Methodist University, where she continued her postgraduate studies in Art. Amy has been deeply influenced by nature and relationships, as evidenced in her abstract painting.

In her artwork, tensions and serenities coexist, inviting the viewer to consider life’s mysteries and ambiguities. Through a reduction and layering process she allows line and form to emerge, disappearing again into obscurity. There is a sense of time and space.

Painting is a language, and Amy Cannady’s is a kind of “Glossolalia.” She invites the viewer to ponder that something has happened, is happening, or is about to happen. Amy intentionally seeks no control, but looks for the possibilities in the paint and the painting process. Her language suggests little room for dogmatic interpretation.

Cannady’s most noted artistic influences, Joan Mitchell, Philip Guston, Cy Twombly, and David Smith, all place strong emphasis on the use of line. The writings of Jean-Paul Sartre, C.S. Lewis, Soren Kierkegaard, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and Thomas Merton inform her work philosophically and theologically, each attending to the inward/outward spiritual journey.

In the fall of 2005 Amy Cannady moved home and studio from the contemporary art scene in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and returned to her roots in Indiana where she maintains a working studio in the historic Stutz Center in Indianapolis.  In 2008 she opened an office and working studio in Dallas' West Highland Park neighborhood.