Amanda Hood

As a professional artist who also suffers from PMDD ( Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder) my work is driven by the ever-present duality that comes with monthly cycles of depression, contrasted by periods of optimism.

Using sublime imagery, and the contrast between light and dark, blurred and defined, paintings explore how we as humans process and handle the juxtaposition of extreme beauty and pain in the world simultaneously.

Amanda Hood is an artist and teacher at Highline College with an MFA in Integrated Visual Art from Iowa State University, and a BFA from Pittsburg State University. Amanda’s paintings and prints have been exhibited nationally, and internationally in venues such as the Gallery of the International Pavilion in Ulsan, Korea, and the Evansville Museum in Indiana. She is currently represented by Core Gallery in Seattle, WA. Raised in the midwest, her work often references the regional landscape and draws heavily upon the traditions of Romanticism and the Sublime.

Pontifex

Acrylic on Panel, 2023

30 x 24 inches

Luminaries

Acrylic on Canvas

24 x 30 inches

Phantom Memory/Pyramids

Acrylic on Panel

30 x 40 inches