A.J. Springer is a multi-media artist based in Brooklyn and Mexico City, with a B.F.A. in Studio Arts and Art History from Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City. After graduation in 2015, she continued her art practice while working in technical positions in art, such as a decorative painter/gilder, sculpture restorer, artist assistant, carpenter, finisher, and framer, incorporating them into her process. She has attended artist residencies such as ChaShaMa’s Cha’North program in upstate NY, La Taller Máquina’s printmaking program in Oaxaca, Mexico, and The Solar Etching Workshop Residency at Allen Hill Press in Vermont.Her work has been exhibited in museums and exhibitions such as the Seoul Museum of Art, South Korea; The International Cultural Museum in Lima, Peru; the Monmouth Museum, NJ; Atelier - Galerie 21, Cologne, Germany; Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, Brooklyn, NY; Blue Mountain Gallery, Chelsea, NY; La Taller Máquina in Oaxaca, Mexico; and more. She has also participated in several art fairs such as “E/AB - Editions and Artists Book Fair” in New York, “The Other Art Fair” in Brooklyn, NY, and both “Spectrum Art Fair” at Mana Contemporary and “Satellite Art Fair” during Miami Art Week. She is the author of ‘Babes of The Abyss’, an art book of her works, published by Snap Collective in Denmark.
Her work combines printmaking, drawing, painting and collage to create immersive, complex installations and mixed-media collages. The work often starts as large-scale drawings on transparent mylar made with water-soluble charcoal and washes of ink, creating narrative scenes of abstracted figurative forms, structures, and distorted interiors from historical paintings, family photographs, and natural elements of landscapes. Pulling from psychology, the work invokes an experience akin to a Rorschach inkblot test, creating a reflective dialogue that forces self-awareness. This take on the Jungian confrontation with their "shadow" encourages internalizing personal and shared emotional complexities.
