“Don’t Let The Name Deceive You” Opens June 2

OMAHA - Omaha artist Amy Haney has been digging out her old plates and repurposing previously editioned prints to create new works and reconstruct old concepts. The result is “Don’t Let The Name Deceive You,” which opens Friday, June 2, from 6:00 to 9:00pm at Ming Toy Gallery in downtown Benson.

For the past two decades, Haney has been teaching printmaking and watercolour in the metropolitan area at Midco, the Joslyn Art Museum, Metropolitan Community College, Kent Bellows Studio and the University of Nebraska at Omaha. She received her BFA from Ringling College of Art in Sarasota (FL), her MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and an art history degree from Prescott College in Arizona. All degrees are specifically focused in printmaking.

Haney’s subject matter is based on observing and studying aspects of nature then imposing her visual filter, humor or aesthetic interpretation. She “enjoys the technical aspects and meditative repetitiveness found in printmaking” and finds watercolour equally stimulating.

Haney’s work is in private collections in the San Francisco Bay Area, New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, Microsoft Corporation and University of Wyoming Art Museum. Several of her illustrations have been published in a collection of Chronicle books, and she’s represented at Anderson O’Brien Fine Art in Omaha.

She and her mom, Judy, share a studio in downtown Omaha.

“Don’t Let The Name Deceive You” runs through June 24. Ming Toy Gallery is located at 6066 Maple Street in Omaha. Regular hours are Wednesday and Friday from noon to 5pm, Thursday from 5 to 8pm, Saturday from 9am to 1pm and by appointment. For more information, call or text 402.681.1901.