Amze Emmons: Recent Work January 16 – February 6, 2007
The Martin Art Gallery at Muhlenberg College proudly hosts Amze Emmons: Recent Work, January 16 through March 2, 2007 in the Martin Art Gallery in the Baker Center for the Arts.Wednesday, December 13, 2006 01:59 PM
Emmons, assistant professor of printmaking at Muhlenberg, combines traditional printmaking and perspective drawing with flat, colorful painting to depict modern spaces in thoughtful and unexpected ways.
Emmons is informed by his daily research of the “media-scape” for images and phrases that may lead to a deeper narrative. He combines inspiration from a variety of sources including old signs, architectural illustrations, graffiti, information graphics, and news footage. He then works with them using time-honored studio techniques to make images with a sense of minimal realism that go one step further and evocatively record the global transience and dislocation of our time.
He points out that we live in a world of increasing flux and migration due to anticipated causes-- such as increased global travel and seasonal employment--or natural disasters and warfare, which are event-driven. He adds, “More than 30 million people are currently displaced by strife alone. The images I create are meant to depict the vague terrain of the everyday but in the midst of an architectural insurgency where institutional modernism—the stalwart stone, glass and steel structure of the status quo—is being overrun and set upon by the displaced and mobile. My work attempts to document the topography of our strange new world.”
A reception and gallery talk will be held in the Gallery, Wednesday, January 24, 4:30 – 6:00 p.m. The event is free and open to the public. Gallery hours are Tuesdays through Saturdays, noon – 9:00 p.m.; closed during semester breaks and holidays.
For information, contact Kathryn Burke in the Martin Art Gallery office at 484.664.3467, Mondays through Fridays, or log onto http://web.mac.com/chimpamze .
