Emma Amos US, 1937-2020
147.3 x 101.6 cm
Exhibitions
New York, Art In General, Emma Amos: Changing the Subject, Paintings and Prints, 1992-1994, March - April 1994; traveled to: Montclair, New Jersey, Montclair Museum, December 1994 - March 1995 (illustrated in color, on the cover). Curated by Holly Block.
Athens, Georgia Museum of Art, Emma Amos: Color Odyssey, January - April 2021 (illustrated in color); traveled to: Utica, New York, Munford-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, June - September 2021; and Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art, October 2021-January 2022.
Literature
V. Raynor, “Defying the Confines and Labels of Race”, New York Times, 15 January 1995
(illustrated).b. hooks, “Aesthetic Interventions,” Art on My Mind, Visual Politics, New York, 1995, p. 167 (illustrated in color, p. 168).
C. A. Britton, African American Art: The Long Struggle, 1996, p. 87 (illustrated in color, p. 86 and on the back cover).
S. Otfinoski, African Americans in the Visual Arts, 2003, p. 4.
D. E. Whaley, “Black Expressive Art, Resistant Cultural Politics and the [Re] Performance of Patriotism," Trotter Review, University of Massachusetts, Boston, no. 17, Issue #1 (Literacy, Expression and the Language of Resistance),
September 2007, pp. 28-29.
D. Jegede, Encyclopedia of African American Artists, 2009, pp. 7-8.
S. Moore, Openings: A Memoir from the Women’s Art Movement, New York City, 1970-1992, New York, 2016, pp. 118, 387, no. 63 (illustrated in detail, the artist standing in front of the painting, from a card for a presentation by Amos at Hatch- Billops Collection, New York, 1994).
