​BENTONVILLE, AR –  Midnight Gallery presents the year my heart turned to water, a solo

exhibition that unveils a whole new body of work from multidisciplinary artist Amber Imrie.

Born in the Ozarks and shaped by its rugged, water-carved landscape, Imrie draws from both

personal and geological histories to explore queer experience, regional identity, and quiet

transformation.

 

​“This work is a devotion to the whisper of water, and a turning toward the land

that continues to hold me.” - Amber Imrie

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the year my heart turned to water is not a demand for queer visibility, rather than a nod to its

integrated existence and presence in the South. Imrie meditates on erosion as a generative

sculpting force, drawing parallels between the way water carves and endures to queerness itself.

This body of work represents resistance to erasure; it is an ode to the lived experiences of queer

people in rural landscapes.

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At the heart of the exhibition lies a deep engagement with the Ozarks, a region often

misunderstood or oversimplified. Imrie proposes a new reading of the Ozarks as a site of

resilience, longing, and reclamation—where desire, tradition, and landscape sediment into one

another.

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About the Artist:

Amber Imrie (they/she) is an artist, curator, and educator whose work has been

exhibited both nationally and internationally. Amber has a BA with honors from UC Berkeley

and an MFA from Stanford University. Imrie is the founder of Venison Magazine and was

awarded the Murphy Cadogan award in 2017 to foster further exploration of her artistic potential

in hybrid practice. Amber became a founding member of The Alternative Art School in 2020. In

2023, Amber was awarded the Creative Exchange Fund Spectra Grant as a curator/artist, the

Artist 360 practicing artist grant, and was invited to speak on a curator panel at the ArtBo

International Art fair in Bogota, Columbia and at Expo in Chicago, USA.

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For media inquiries, interviews, or to RSVP, please contact: info@midnightgallerynwa.com

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Written by Emma Nilsson