AMANDA MIEHLE: A TEENAGE ARTIST STEPS OUT

A YOUNG MAKER OF DRAWINGS MARKED BY SOME ENIGMATIC, DEEPLY PERSONAL IMAGES IS HAVING HER FIRST-EVER GALLERY EXHIBITION

Amanda Miehle: Fashion, Passion, Magic
Ruffed Grouse Gallery
144 Main Street
Narrowsburg, New York 12764
March 25 through May 29, 2023
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by Edward M. Gómez

We first met Amanda Miehle in brutjournal’s inaugural issue, which was published in September 2021. Around that time, her drawings had come to the attention of the photographer Bill Westmoreland, the magazine’s visual director, who had spotted them on a large banner hanging on the exterior wall of an industrial building in the town of Honesdale, in northeastern Pennsylvania.

Installation view of the exhibition *Amanda Miehle: Fashion, Passion, Magic*, which is on view through May 29, 2023, at Ruffed Grouse Gallery in Narrowsburg, New York. In the foreground: A dress made by the costume designer Janet Gaglione based on the signature garment that appears in Amanda Miehle’s self-portrait drawings. Photo by Bill Westmoreland

Appearing in a group, Amanda’s drawings, which she had made with Sharpie marker pens on paper, were reproduced on that billboard-size banner. Known as “The Great Wall of Honesdale,” it is an unusual art-exhibition project produced by the Wayne County Arts Alliance. Each year, this Honesdale-based cultural organization sponsors an art contest whose winning entries are reproduced and featured during the summer months on the “Great Wall.”