Amy Brakeman Livezey worked her way from the midwest to the western states and has resided in Helena, Montana since 1993. She began her creative career with a focus on independent filmmaking, which allowed her to explore a full range of interests: history, language, visual art, and music. Over the years Livezey drifted towards jobs that had a creative bent, but in 2017 she decided to eschew any work that took her away from personal expression and re-dedicate herself to her art practice. Since that time she has become known throughout the region for her depictions of historic subjects in abstract expressionist fields. Using paint, subtraction tools, bits of ephemera, and photo transfer techniques, Livezey expresses in a modern form her interest in western history, feminism, the human form, and portraiture. Her studio is adjacent to that of her husband, landscape artist Dale Livezey.