Emma Amos retrospective on view at museum
January 25, 2021
She embodied intersectionality in her art “Emma Amos: Color Odyssey” will be on view at the Georgia Museum of Art Jan. 30-April 25. The retrospective solo exhibition shows her presence and growth as an artist, but also highlights the social change for which she fought.
The exhibition, organized by the Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia, includes over 60 works Amos made over the course of her career, with the earliest from the late 1950s and the latest around 2015. It includes examples of painting, printmaking and textile-based mixed-media works, which she moved among and recombined regularly.
Tuesday, January 12, 2021 Emma Amos’s journey to become a distinguished artist is nothing short of extraordinary. She was interested in art from a young age, even though segregation prevented her from being able fully to enjoy and experience the arts in museums and other public “separate-but-equal” spaces. “Emma Amos: Color Odyssey,” a retrospective solo exhibition organized by the Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia, not only shows her presence and growth as an artist, but also highlights the social change for which Amos fought. “Emma Amos: Color Odyssey” will be on view at the Georgia Museum of Art January 30 through April 25, 2021, before traveling to the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute from June 19 to September 12, 2021, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art from October 9, 2021, to January 2, 2022. The exhibition includes over 60 works Amos made over the course of her career, with the earliest from the late 1950s a
Originally published on January 14, 2021 9:03 am
This is Emma Amos moment. Her themes gender and race press on our minds now. For six decades Amos explored them in prints, paintings and fabrics. She died May 20, just months before a retrospective of her work, Emma Amos: Color Odyssey, is to open at the Georgia Museum of Art, in Athens. Complications from Alzheimer s took her at age 83, but she knew the show was in the works.
That picture above is a self-portrait. Here s her photograph.
Emma Amos, 2006
Becket Logan
Curator Shawnya L. Harris says Amos came from an educated, middle-class Atlanta family. Her grandfather and father were pharmacists in the drugstore they owned. Amos was, asked to create a work showing what she and her art were about.
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Georgia Museum of Art receives book awards
Exhibition catalogues Material Georgia 1733 1900: Two Decades of Scholarship and Deborah Roberts: The Evolution of Mimi.
ATHENS, GA
.-The Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia has received the 2020 Mary Ellen LoPresti Award for exhibition catalogues from the Southeast Chapter of the Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA). The LoPresti Award normally goes to one scholarly publication and one exhibition catalogue, but two books from the museum tied for the latter award: Deborah Roberts: The Evolution of Mimi (published with the Spelman College Museum of Fine Art) and Material Georgia 1733 1900: Two Decades of Scholarship.