About

​​Amber Maida’s paintings are internationally collected and have been exhibited in galleries and Museums throughout the US, Canada, and in the UK.   Most recently Amber’s painting, “Lit From Within” was awarded First Place and a solo show at The Mattatuck Museum’s 2016 Mixmaster juried exhibit by Juror, Elizabeth Denny, Director of the Denny Gallery (NYC).  The solo exhibition, Entrances & Exits, was on exhibit August, 2016.  Since 2012, Amber’s paintings have been represented by Art Cube Gallery (Laguna Beach, CA) with solo exhibitions during September/October 2014. In September 2013 Maida was one of a three-person exhibition at LA Artcore Galleries (Los Angeles, CA, Brewery Annex location) and while living in Southern California, she had an artist film created about her process and artwork by photographer/videographer, Eric Minh Swenson titled, “Broken Eggshells.”  Since returning to Connecticut in 2015, Amber has also had two solo exhibitions featuring her mixed media paintings and assemblage sculptures titled, “Elemental” in May 2017, and“The Silver Lining” in April/May 2015 at Serendipity Gallery in Litchfield, CT.

Maida’s work has also been included in juried and group exhibitions at museums and galleries, including The New Britain Museum of American Art (New Britain, CT), The Housatonic Museum of Art (Bridgeport, CT), The Silvermine Guild of Art (New Canaan, CT), Station Gallery (NYC), AIRS (New Haven, CT); Bunny Gunner Gallery (Claremont, CA), StudioGallery (Irvine, CA), The Franklin Arts Center (Brainerd, MN), redFISH Gallery (East Aurora, NY), Theartbay Gallery (Staffordshire, UK) and others. A solo exhibition titled, “A Labyrinth-Line Existence” was held at The Gallery at Black Rock (Bridgeport, CT) in June 2010.  From 2007-2009, her paintings were represented at the White Space Gallery (New Haven, CT).  A suite of paintings by the artist were selected by Richard’s of Greenwich for the 2009 Art to the Avenue public art exhibition (Greenwich, CT).   

Throughout her career, Amber’s work has also been featured in several journals including Litchfield Magazine (May/June, 2015), Mode Moderne Journal (issue I, 2012, and issue XI, 2013), Artscope Magazine (July/August 2010), Ink Magazine (January 2008), and in several issues of Art World News Magazine (2009-2015), as well as others.  

Amber currently resides in Warren, CT.