Tuesday Edition: Amze Emmons
8"x10" ($20) | 11"x14" ($50) | 16"x20" ($200)
The Sleepwalker's Language by Amze Emmons
8"x10" ($20) | 11"x14" ($50) | 16"x20" ($200)
Happy Tuesday, collectors. After quite some time of admiring his work from afar, I am pleased to present our first two editions ever from Philadelphia-based artist Amze Emmons. The thing that makes Amze's work so interesting is what is also strangely absent from his pictures—people. In our place, instead, are things that we create, manufacture, gather and leave behind—by choice or by force. National Treasures and The Sleepwalker's Language are from his series Refugee Architecture.
The subject sounds dire, but in creating his works, Amze elegantly arranges (or re-arranges) the detritus that swirls around us in the news, adding bits and pieces of things he sees walking around in his own hometown. With a sunset-color palette, his invented landscapes allow us to examine our world as it is—constantly changing, for better or for worse. And sans refugees, the places and stories we see and hear distantly in the news become our own.
I'd highly recommend that you take the time to listen to Amze himself talk a little more about his work. And if you're in New York, you have just this week to catch the tail end of Sea Worthy to see more of Amze's art in person. A broad undertaking encompassing a group exhibition, ongoing workshops and artist-led excursions on the water, the astutely curated exhibition brings together NYC-based and visiting artists, as well as several noteworthy institutions and art spaces, to celebrate New York's waterways. Amze's works—as well as fellow 20x200 artist Tod Seelie's—are on view till July 29th, when the exhibit closes. That's this Friday, so don't delay!
— Sara
Sea Worthy
Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Project Space
323 West 39th Street, 2nd floor, NYC
On view Wednesday through Friday, noon to 6:00 p.m., now till July 29th, 2011
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