Moving from landscape as view toward place as lived condition, Amy Helfand constructs inhabited environments that extend a two-dimensional system of forms into space as material continuations. Pattern operates as both image and structure, generating surfaces that become sites—apprehended and inhabited—and discrete objects that extend this world into three dimensions.

Recent work, presented as Eutopos, considers the “good place” not as a fixed or idealized location, but as something emergent—assembled through use, perception, and ongoing transformation.

Helfand has long been a collector of images, forms, and colors. She holds a BA in American Studies and Photography from Hampshire College and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She lives and works in Red Hook, Brooklyn.