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Amy Chasse (b. 1997) is a multimedia artist whose work delves into the abject and its relationship to the everyday. Drawing from American suburbs, film, and ideas of otherness, Chasse creates work that is both playful and unsettling.
Chasse’s work celebrates the tension between fascination and the grotesque, exploring the intersections of transgression, desire, and the human body. She challenges the viewer's sensibilities through exaggerated, distorted figures constructed with latex, paint, plaster and paper mache. These figures or “dolls” are often placed and photographed in domestic spaces she considers “psychic interiors” which serve as a conduit between reality and an alternative world.
While Chasse invites audiences to engage with the absurdities of the everyday, she remains critical of institutional failures and the social consequences of systemic neglect. With drooping skin and dissociative eyes, her dolls inhabit bodies but are not present in one. With no end in sight, the doll must push on, embracing contradiction and finding comfort within the discomfort.
Chasse is currently pursuing her MFA in the Painting/Printmaking Program at Yale University. Her work has been exhibited throughout New York City and internationally in Florence, Italy and Mexico City, Mexico.