Emma Amos

Solo Show at Flomenhaft

Natalia — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 17:03:10 +0000

Emma has a solo show at Flomenhaft Gallery that includes her newest paintings and prints. It opened Thursday, January 14, and runs until Saturday, February 27.

Flomenhaft Gallery
547 West 27th Street
Suite 200
212.268.4952
Open Tuesday–Saturday 10:30 am–5 pm

Read the Press Release here:

Flomenhaft Gallery- Press Release

Warm Up 5

Emma — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 06:37:22 +0000

Warm Up 5, handmade paper, monoprint, and fiber, 48" × 31.5"

Warm Up 3

Emma — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 06:35:05 +0000

Warm Up 3, handmade paper, monoprint, and fiber, 48" × 31.5"

Warm Up 1

Emma — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 06:31:31 +0000

Warm Up 1, handmade paper, monoprint, and fiber, 48" × 31.5"

Latest paintings

India — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 04:20:45 +0000

Emma spent October as a guest at Yaddo, where she made three new paintings, shown here with their borders not yet applied:

Meanwhile, the painting we saw her beginning in July is now finished:

More works in progress

India — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 17:25:20 +0000

The triptych Emma has been working on since March is still underway. After some planning, a few of the narrow border strips have been attached. The rest are still being worked out.

Emma has also been making a lot of prints with the help of Kathy Caraccio,

and, in lieu of going to the beach, making a summery little beach painting.

A fireside chat, without the fireside

India — Wed, 27 May 2009 20:30:18 +0000

On April 16, Emma gave the Eighth Annual David C. Driskell Lecture in the Visual Arts at the University of Maryland's David C. Driskell Center. Or, more accurately, she shared the stage with Professor Driskell himself, and the lecture was in the form of a discussion between the two of them.

The event was free, more information by e-mailing driskellcenter@umd.edu.

Details

More progress snapshots

India — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 06:46:08 +0000

Here are more snapshots of the painting Emma is working on:

Work in progress

India — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 08:26:35 +0000

Emma's working on a new painting. I think she said that this one's about her grandparents.

And here are details of some of the animals on the painting she just finished:

You can see more snapshots of both paintings on Flickr.

EA at CAA

India — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 22:49:00 +0000

This weekend, Emma went to the College Art Association conference to speak at a session titled "African American Art in the Abstract Expressionist Era." The program description was as follows:

Chair: Janet Berry Hess, J.D., Ph.D., Sonoma State University
Emma Amos: Reflections on Spiral

Emma Amos, Rutgers University
Richard Mayhew: Lyricism and Community

Richard Mayhew, Pennsylvania State University
African American Expressionism: History and Context

Bridget Cooks, University of California, Irvine
Esthetique Noir? African American Abstract Painters in Post–World War II Europe

Mamie Hyatt, Boston University
Reading Literary Theory with Romare Bearden

Nora Niedzielski-Eichner, Stanford University

She spoke briefly about how she came to be invited to join Spiral when she was in her early twenties and fresh out of art school, while none of the much more prominent black women artists of the day—such as Vivian Browne and Faith Ringgold—were asked, and about how this exclusion of women continues in the art world today.

Emma Amos

Solo Show at Flomenhaft

Warm Up 5

Warm Up 3

Warm Up 1

Latest paintings

More works in progress

A fireside chat, without the fireside

More progress snapshots

Work in progress

EA at CAA

Emma Amos: Reflections on Spiral

Richard Mayhew: Lyricism and Community

African American Expressionism: History and Context

Esthetique Noir? African American Abstract Painters in Post–World War II Europe

Reading Literary Theory with Romare Bearden