HEMPHILL is pleased to share a recent review by Katherine Markoski for East City Art of HEMPHILL's current exhibition, AMY SCHISSEL.

On view at Hemphill Artworks until June 21 is the gallery’s first exhibition featuring Miami-based Canadian artist Amy Schissel. In the fourteen works on display, all created between 2018 and 2025, Schissel deftly combines the languages of painting, drawing, and digitization to imaginatively map the interplay of physical and cyber spaces.

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AMY SCHISSEL is on view at HEMPHILL through Jun 21, 2025.

At Hemphill Artworks, Schissel’s works couldn’t be more visually divergent. The exhibit includes several monumental, mostly monochromatic works, some as wide as 226 inches (just shy of 19 feet) and some as tall as 96 inches (or 8 feet), many of them backed by complementary wallpaper. The process of making these works is laborious, sometimes taking as long as 300 hours—that’s more than 12 days. They involve multiple coats of paint, often massaged into organic highlights, followed by painstakingly detailed patterns drawn in ink—radiating straight lines; geometrical shapes (sometimes highlighted in muted red); loops and whorls; and the occasional spirograph form. In their entirety, the large canvases suggest a frenzied, widescreen, digital universe, with touches of steampunk, topographical maps, neural networks, and surreal dreamscapes.

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