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about
Amy Mutza is a writer and art historian based in the San Francisco Bay Area.
She received a MA in History and Theory of Contemporary Art from the San Francisco Art Institute. As with her Master’s Thesis, Unruly Threads, Queer Handicrafts, her nonfiction writing explores contemporary art, craft, and sexuality. Her research interests include the intersection of disability studies and sexuality, especially as they relate to art, and she grounds her work in a strong foundation of feminist and queer theories.
In her fiction, she thrives on themes of pleasure and hedonism, shame and cowardice, broken taboos and the radical disintegration of social norms.
Her writing is additionally informed by her interests in tarot, body horror cinema, and a side project of making (but never completing) a stop motion animation short film. She can be a criminal-level shoe-gazer, and she has an infatuation with style and genre-bending. In reading she embraces anything that can make her feel electric, philosophical, absolutely miserable, or completely irate.
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Derek Fordjour at David Kordansky Gallery
CARLA ISSUE 29, 2022
Feel the Feels: 10 Creative Ways Bay Area Residents Are Spreading Kindness
THE BOLD ITALIC 2020
Joan Brown's Final Work: Eternal Heritage Museum
JOAN BROWN ESTATE 2018
In the Game of Strip Poker There are no Losers
Jovencio de la Paz and the Soft World of Machines
SURFACE DESIGN JOURNAL SUMMER 2021
Aesthetics and Ethics: Works on Paper by Ariamna Contino and Alex Hernández-Dueñas
SURFACE DESIGN JOURNAL SUMMER 2020
Joan Brown: The Rincon Center Obelisk
JOAN BROWN ESTATE 2017
(L.A. in S.F.)
Julie Weitz at
The Contemporary Jewish Museum
CARLA ISSUE 26, 2021
Dandies, Vamps, and Rockers: Sex and Disability in the Paintings of Aurie Ramirez
Review: Touch the Spindle at Capital Gallery
ROGUE RAVE 2015
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