Amy Kaufman, a professional artist, is acclaimed for her unique painted monotypes and paintings. A native of Newton, Massachusetts, Kaufman received her B.A. from Brandeis University where she learned printmaking from Michael Mazur, and her M.F.A. from University of Pennsylvania. She continued her studies at Massachusetts College of Art and School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Kaufman has participated in workshops with Eric Fischl, Wolf Kahn, Larry Rivers, and Lois Tarlow. She is a Corporate Artist of the DeCordova Museum Corporate Program as well as a member of the Monotype Guild of New England; Concord Art Association, Printmakers of Cape Cod, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston's Medici Society; and juried artist member of the Cambridge Art Association and the Cape Cod Art Association. She has worked at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Art New England magazine. Kaufman's art is numerous private, university, and corporate collections nationwide. She has received awards and has exhibited extensively in museums and galleries throughout New England, Pennsylvania including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and New York. Recently, Theodore Stebbins, Curator of American Art at Harvard University's Fogg Museum, juried her art into the CAA Northeast Prize Show; Arthur Dion, Director of Gallery NAGA, juried her art into the CAA 66th Annual Members Prize Show; and Howard Yezerski, of the Howard Yezerski Gallery, juried her art into the CAA Red exhibition. Her art was featured on TV NECN Dream House: Elderly Home and in Dream Home/08 at the Boston Design Center. Her art has been exhibited in the new Mount Auburn Healthcare in Waltham and at the Boston Public Library exhibit ReThink Ink. You may have seen her art at Masterpiece Gallery and Diana Levine Fine Art at the Boston Design Center, Thos. Moser in Greenwich, CT, and Left Bank Gallery, Wellfleet, MA. Her painting "Flowers in Bloom" is on the cover of the New Art Center Spring 2015 Catalog.You can see Kaufmans paintings in the Hollywood movie "Bride Wars" starring Kate Hudson and Anne Hathaway.Under Kaufman's skillful eye and hand, the color and grid patterns of everyday life become abstract impressions that interplay with such subjects as flowers, fruit, and fish. The color depth and details make a glowing surface, with complex edges and powerful focal points.