Amy Mack is an award-winning American artist who’s Barcode Painting Series (began: Los Angeles, spring of 2000) addresses consumer trends, world news reports, and every-day products that touch our lives. She has interpreted: scanner printers, cityscapes, cookbooks, breakfast cereals, to-go products, chewing gum, film, junk mail and promo coupons, tablet computers, and numerous nostalgic and modern brands to convey our ever-changing times.
Mack’s painting Barcode T-Max3200 received positive mention in The New York Times via an exhibit with New Haven’s (CT) Creative Arts Workshop that was juried by Yale Chair of Sculpture and renowned installation artist Jessica Stockholder. Mack has exhibited her experimental fine art film work with the Pulitzer Arts Foundation.
Painting collage ‘Barcode Sun’ has aired numerous times on international broadcasts of the American television program CBS Sunday Morning including the December 16, 2012 tribute to Norman Joseph Woodland, co-inventor of the barcode. “Barcode Coupons Sun” aired on the special 2013 Money Issue show, and was also created specifically for CBS Sunday Morning.
Many of her paintings have been acquired by private and corporate collectors, in the company of works by Terri Priest, David Hockney, Barbara Kruger, Roy Lichtenstein and other artists whose work has influenced her art.