Contextualizing Emma Amos's Creative Freedom At the Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, a retrospective of the artist’s prominent career highlights her ingenuity across various mediums ‘I want to invent the human figure,’ the late artist Emma Amos boldly claimed in a 2011 oral-history interview for the Smithsonian Archives of American Art. Amos, who died in May 2020 at the age of 83, pursued a wide range of technical and material approaches over the course of her seven-decade career as a printmaker, painter and weaver. Although her best-known works from the mid-to-late 1960s have received a resurgence of acclaim following their inclusion in major group exhibitions – such as ‘We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965–85’ at the Brooklyn Museum, New York, in 2017 – Amos’s first museum solo show in nearly 20 years is a posthumous retrospective organized by the Georgia Museum of Art in Athens. The exhibition, ‘Emma Amos: Color Odyssey’, features a robust selection of Amos’s most recognizable works and deftly contextualizes the many phases of her illustrious career.