Printmaking in the time of
COVID-19.
Small Exhibitions: SPIRAL: Emma
Amos
In
August of 1963, The March on Washington was held to advocate for the civil rights
of African Americans. Martin Luther King Jr delivered his "I Have a
Dream" speech, calling for an end to racism.
The art
collective, The Spiral Group formed as a result of the march.
“…Spiral
was a New York–based collective of African-American artists that came together
in the 1960s to discuss their relationship to the civil rights movement and the
shifting landscape of American art, culture and politics…”
An
artist in the group who I particularly admire is Emma Amos.
Emma
Amos (1937 – 2020) was invited in 1963, by her professor, “…Hale Woodruff to become a member of Spiral,
a group of black artists that included Romare Bearden, Norman Lewis, and
Charles Alston. She was the group’s youngest and only female member…”
Prints
and paintings by Emma Amos are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art,
the Studio Museum of Harlem, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the
Brooklyn Museum. Emma Amos died on May 21 at her home in Bedford, N.H. She was
83. In 2021, a retrospective of the artist’s work will open in her home state,
at the Georgia Museum of Art in Athens.
Stars and Stripes,
monotype with George Shivery photo
transfer, 1995
About
Whiteness (Red)
oil and
laser transfer on paper. 1995
Measuring,
Measuring
Acrylic
on linen canvas, Kente fragment, batiked hand swatches, African strip woven
borders, and laser-transfer photographs, 1995.
Mississippi Wagon, 1937,
print, 1992
My Mothers, My Sisters,
lithograph, handmade paper collage,
African fabric border, 1992
Contemporary
African American artists continue the work of Spiral:
Black
Art In America
SPIRAL
NOW 55 Years Later: New Artists, Familiar Struggle
SPIRAL
NOW 55 Years Later: New Artists, Familiar Struggle
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